Bill Bryson Mother Tongue Chapter 4 Influence of other languages on the development of English The development of the English language has been influenced by other languages‚ such as Celtic‚ Old Norse and Danish‚ and Anglo- Norman French. So much influence did not destroy the language‚ but made it even more interesting. After 450A.D. when the Roman troops were withdrawn from Britain‚ Germanic people began settling in Angle- land. They drove Celtic speakers to the fringes of Britain
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of the English language in the world nowadays‚ we should question what kind of teaching would be most appropriate to the learning of English as an International Language. McKay (2002:12)‚ based on the ideas of Smith (1976)‚ summarizes some important aspects that should be considered to the teaching of an international language. 1) As an international language‚ English is used both in a global sense for international communication between countries and in a local sense as a language of wider communication
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Intercultural biography Being studying and living in UK about three years‚ experienced the different culture‚ lifestyle and the way you communicate with people between UK and China. Cross-culture communication describes the ability to successfully form‚ foster‚ and improve relationships with members of a culture different from one’s own. It is based on knowledge of many factors‚ such as the other culture’s values‚ perceptions‚ manners‚ social structure‚ and an understanding of how members of the
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Can Computers Think? Argument 1: No‚ thinking is too complicated. Even if we someday come to understand all the laws and principles that govern the mind‚ that doesn’t mean that we can duplicate it. Does understanding astrophysics mean that we can build a galaxy? Argument 2: I am not a machine . I’m me.I’m alive. And you’re never going to make a computer that can say that. Argument 3: The essence of humanity isn’t reason or logic or any of the other things that computers can do: it’s intuition
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domination‚ almost all people in the Republic had to speak Russian whether they are Russians or not. It wasn’t forbidden to speak Kazakh‚ but if people did not know Russian language well‚ they would not succeed and couldn’t get good paid jobs; they belonged to uneducated and to a lower social class. Since that time‚ most families sent their children to Russian schools and tried to speak primarily Russian at home. Nowadays‚ those children have grown up‚ most don’t speak Kazakh while some don’t even know
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CHAPTER I BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The chapter I of this research paper tackles about the introduction of the Jejemon language that covers the definition of the different basic terms related to Jejemon and the historical background of the Jejemon language‚ the significance of the study that states why and to whom this study is beneficial‚ the statement of purpose that identifies the objectives of this research study‚ the statement of the problem that consists of the problems that this study is covering
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History of the English Language Before the Germanic tribes arrived‚ the Celts were the original inhabitants of Britain. When the Germanic tribes invaded England‚ they pushed the Celt-speaking inhabitants out of England into what is now Scotland‚ Wales‚ Cornwall‚ and Ireland. The Celtic language survives today in the Gaelic languages‚ and some scholars speculate that the Celtic tongue might have influenced the grammatical development of English‚ though the influence would have been minimal (Bryson
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relationship between culture and language Wenying Jiang This paper discusses the inseparability of culture and language‚ presents three new metaphors relating to culture and language‚ and explores cultural content in specific language items through a survey of word associations. The survey was designed for native Chinese speakers (NCS) in Chinese‚ as well as for native English speakers (NES) in English (see Appendix). The words and expressions associated by NCS convey Chinese culture‚ and those associated
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How to think big..??? Normally‚ people use to say that I use to think big.. But I question them that do they really no the meaning of thinking big.. We really can think big when we have set our own goals by our own selves and than we exceed them.. that’s the power of thinking big…!! I personally have asked people‚ even my own companions that what is your view about thinking big..? But I never got any a great answer… But one of ma friend manju said that‚ “I feel what is there in thinking
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Can Machines Think ? This paper regards several points of view on the subject of‚ what is commonly referred to as Artificial Intelligence‚ or AI. AI is the attempt to make machines‚ specifically computers‚ perform intelligently through programming. Already‚ this definition has a problem in that the word intelligence can have many interpretations. This essay will attempt to put forward some ideas for how to approach this problem. It could be said that the human brain is nothing more than a machine
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