A different language is a different vision of life
Federico Fellini
Learning a new language may be quite an adventure...!
Some people see language just as a means of communication. Sherlock would say "That's obvious, Watson, but..."
Learning
another language means far more than acquiring and using varied lexis,
mastering grammatical rules, understanding common idiomatic expressions,
and using appropriate pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation. These and
other issues are the building blocks of everyday communication. However,
language is produced by people differing in origin, race, cultural
background, climate, educational system, interest, well-being, ...Thus, the language of a particular group of people varies widely compared to that of another group of people living in a distant geographical site and using the same language; people living in warm, tropical regions are more talkative, express their feelings with strong voice and bodily movements, while people in cold regions speak with a lower voice, almost whispering their ideas, taking good care of cold drafts from affecting their throats and moving slowly to keep their bodies warm.
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Thus, you might read "Monday thru Friday" instead of "Monday through Friday" or "tonite" instead of "tonight" and may hear "overr-itiin" instead of "over eighteen"...
Films, comics, facebook, videos, blogs, internet, RPGs, emoticons, chatting via WhatsApp, twitters, ... are contributing to enrich, for the better or the worse, our language.
In this modern, computerized world, people are closer than ever in the history of mankind through the use of internet and learning a language can be facilitated through the use of plenty of resources, such as videos, online activities, games, blogs, songs, pen pals, youtube ...
Even visiting other countries is becoming easier.
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| Friendly communication about almost anything... |
During the terms you have been bombarded with exercises of various kinds: exercises from the web, WebQuests, role-playing games and situations, instructions and dialogues in English, pronunciation exercises, blogs, units with special contents, oral interactions, videos, ... and still there is a lot to be learned.
So, I wonder .... what are your English language challenges?
Now it's your turn.
> What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university?
> What about the use of blogs?
> What about the use of blogs?
> What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?
> Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for?
- Wordcount: 260
- Make comments on your teacher's and 3 of your partners' posts.
I'm agree with people use internet to learn some languages because the internet now a day can help us in a lot of things, and would be very useful can talk or read some languages.
ReplyDeleteHave you heard a Jamaican speak English? I think this is the challenge, try to understand a different accent or non-native English speaker. Maybe for all of us is easy to understand a British but others...
ReplyDeleteI think that thanks to internet, today the most of people know meaning idioms in english and spanish (chileans have a lot of it and we talk fast), because is the same lenguage, but with another intonation. On the other hand, it's very important to speak more than one lenguage for the job or some trip to another country.
ReplyDeleteCertainly, as my mates says, with the internet the people, even the childs are learning english even before the school
ReplyDeleteI think that the internet is a tool for learn many languages, english, spanish, german, etc.
ReplyDeleteIt's true that English has changed very much, sometimes the jargon they use is impossible to understand. But then I remember how terrible we talk sometimes and how hard it would be for them to understand us.
ReplyDeleteI think it is very representative that
ReplyDeletein each country or place the people express themself with their personal touch.
For me is very difficult understand a non-native English speaker! In fact, I still remember that once I heard an audio about and indian person speaking English, and I have to admit that the only word that I could identify was hello and nothing else! What a shame haha
ReplyDeletetry to understand to someone with an accent different from the one we learned is really difficult,that's a big challenge.
ReplyDeleteFortunately in these days exists internet to help us with different languages, in this case English, but just if we want to translate a text but when you have to listen it's a different history because you have to apply your abilities in English and sometimes it's very hard try to understand a different accent or non-native English speaker.
ReplyDeleteIt´s incredible how the same language can change depending on the person!! Until now, I can´t understand British people so well, but I can understand American people! Jaja
ReplyDeleteEnglish is one of those things in life that you will end up finding yourself, better to learn it for good.
ReplyDeleteenglish is a very important tool if you want to travel to other countries and you don't speak the native, since it is spoken in most of them
ReplyDeleteLearn other languages are the best options for you, with the internet this is more easy.
ReplyDeleteEnglish is very important, but it becomes very complex when we must speak with an English speaker who has a different accent than the accent that we know. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to learn Spanish for them with all the accents that also exist and how badly we speak hahaha.
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