about two of his students that is Danish and Ani. Danish cause the problem when he rarely completes his work even he understands about it. In class, he always stares blankly when are asking to get to work and also always watching the other students. While, Ani is a disruptive student as she always teases the boys sitting around her and keeps them laughing. She also makes wise cracks when response to Mr. Andy says. CAUSES Based on the situation, most probably, Danish is a slow learner student. Borah
Daniel Libeskind is a renowned architect and artist of Polish descent. He has created many, amazing buildings such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Military History Museum in Dresden, and he created the official plans for the World Trade Center. He is well known for “introducing complex ideas and emotions into his designs.” Daniel Libeskind was 1born in Poland on May 12, 1946. In 1953, the Libeskind family immigrated to the United States. Seventeen years later, 1he received his professional architecture
The Holocaust The title of my book is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and it is a historical fiction. My book was about a jewish girl named Ellen that stays with her best friend's family the Johansens to avoid being caught by the nazis and relocated along with her family. I selected this book because it was by Lois Lowry and I read other books by her so I thought that this book would be good. I also chose this book because it was a Newberry award winner. Annemarie Johansen is the main character in
The Hanseatic League, or Hansa, was a trade confederation in northern Europe that stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea. The league dominated commercial activity from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century, and had a major influence on economic structure up through the seventeenth centuries (Hibbert). The Hanseatic League had a profound impact on the trading system used today in Europe, and has been partially revived in certain European cities. Formation The Hansa was founded by European towns
Towards One World-Language? We live in a world were our language is constantly changing, and in the recent past our language has been affected because of a globalized world and technological development. The influence of English has become a global phenomenon. The question ''Will the Norwegian language survive or not?'' is something that is discussed alot today. Maybe it's time to protect Norwegian from English, and to preserve wealth of the Norwegian language, litterature and even the traditions
cultural understanding. Michael Byram discusses intercultural competence (2000) as well as Karen Risager in her article Cultural understanding in language teaching (1994). The fact that English has an influence on most people’s lives and because globalisation makes it important that people are able to communicate cross-cultural give the English teachers in Danish school's responsibility to do their best to mediate between the students’ own culture and English speaking cultures. To teach cultural understanding
¬¬¬¬¬¬¬Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world because being bilingual, it turns out, it makes you smarter, it can have a profund effect on your brain, improving cognitive, bilingualism has a much greater influence in workforce, improves memory and even shielding against dementia in old age. The German Christoph Harbsmeier is talking about language in a interview for the French magazine ‘Epok’. That’s what interests him. He says
Old English is the beautiful and complex ancestor of one if the most powerful languages in human history. Its formation from a series of complex and impressive military conquests and cultural growth spurts has given birth to the most widespread language in the world. Born from war, poetry, and knowledge, Old English's intricate grammar, history, and formation has left an undeniably important mark on its modern descendant, Modern English. The timeline for Old English stretches from its first appearances
Stress in a linguistics is basically the force put on a word or language unit in speech. The strain in language depends upon the loudness and vowel length. The strain and accent area unit the synonyms to every alternative in English language. If we tend to take the instance of a word “examine”. The strain is applied on the second syllable (language unit) whereas this word contains 3 syllables. If we tend to offer stress on first or third syllable the accent are going to be modified as a result of
Language is integral to our culture. It is how we share ideas, express our beliefs, and collaborate with others to strive towards a worthy ideal. Though the primary language of our country is English, our national motto which was adopted in 1776 is “e pluribus unum”, meaning “out of many one” is Latin. Beyond this example, Latin has an extremely heavy influence on the English language. Though many people consider it to be a dead language, it is not as Latin continues to shape American lives as it
earth knows a language, rather it be spoken or signed. According to the Linguistic Society of America’s website, ("Linguistic Society of America," 2012) linguistics is the systematic study of language. The study of linguistics includes the study of the sub-fields of language. These subfields include; phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax. The English language is a Germanic language, which is branch of the Indo-European language family. Other languages on the Germanic language branch include;
The History of English The most commonly spoken language in our day, would be English or as some people might call it “ The Lingua Franca “. It is a language, which is taken almost a thousand years to evolve, mainly through its borrowings from other languages such as French and Latin. It is actually classified as part of the Germanic group of languages. Even though it is the most commonly spoken language today, it is not without its faults, which would be its phonetic symbols
In the middle of the 19th century when Norway, needed to have a new written language of it’s own, after being under Danish rule. The process of getting this new Norwegian written language, was not straightforward, as not one way of doing was agreed on. There were two rivaling ways of getting the new Norwegian written language. One was to adopt a newly created language based upon the older dialects, that reassembled old norse the most. This approach was founded by Ivar Aasen. The other approach was
The U.S. Virgin Islands is predominantly an English speaking island; however the most popular language spoken over the past 400 years has been a Virgin Islands Creole English, as well as Dutch Creole. The U.S. Virgin Islands became an English speaking country in 1917 when the island was formerly the Danish West Indies. Over the years Virgin Islanders have communicated with each other with a dialect some Virgin Islanders call “broken English”, although some scholars call it Creole English. Virgin
The English language has been around for a long time, it first originated from what we call Old English, the original name of Old English is Anglo-Saxon. The language Anglo-Saxon was spoken along the coast of Frisia. The old country Frisia went from the south coast of Denmark down to the north coast of The Netherlands. Around the fifth century the Anglo-Saxons traveled to Britain and dominated the country. Later Old English was divided into four dialects and around the ninth century, one of the four
to be the global language? There are many sources that indicate that future can only hold English as its selected language. In the future we will have a variety of “Englishes” that will dominate global communication, and this will occur because the dominance of English is believed to be ‘inevitable’, practical to foreign nations, and finally it appeals to a multicultural perspective for a cosmopolitan society. Everywhere you look around the world you can find the English language. In The Mother Tongue:
Ebonics, also known as Black English, is a nonstandard dialect spoken in many homes in the inner cities of America. This nonstandard language is often looked upon as low-class or lazy talk. This is not the case, however. Due to consistencies found in the dialect, there seems to be an order. It has been found that, when learning English, African-Americans adapted the language using some of the structure and rules of their own native tongue. This Black English has carried on through slavery and then freedom
The English language has changed extremely in the last centuries. It was not only reflected in the grammar and vocabulary but also in spelling and pronunciation. English passed two stages, namely Old English, Middle English, and now is in a continual state of change that can be still traced as Modern English. The motivation of this paper is the historical development of consonants, their application and ability of differentiation and recognition of sounds through the periods. This work presents
Many people around the world do not know how much other languages have influenced what has now become their modern language. For example, many people know that French has influenced both American and English culture, but not through studying the subject or learning French. Old English was a combination of both Scandinavian and Germanic languages before the Norman Conquest. During the Norman Conquest, the French from Normandy was expanding and most of England’s upper class spoke only Norman French
English is a tool for communication between people who don’t use the same language. It is widely learned as a second language and many countries and world organizations use English as an official language. This is the reason why many people try to learn English, but unfortunately, mastering English is almost impossible. Because English doesn’t have standardized spelling rules, many people who try to learn English including the people who use English as a mother tongue are suffering for spelling