Process Of Learning Language Essay

One of the greatest achievements in life is when you can establish relationships with other people through language. Relationships and bonds are made when talking or even making gestures with common interests. Learning any language can be an extremely useful tool to communicate with others. Living in Indonesia with only the ability to speak the English language fluently can be tedious. I had the background of going to international schools my whole life, which prioritized on my primary language, English. I can speak almost no Indonesian, which is not enough to speak to Indonesians. So, how would I analyze my process of learning a new language? Linguistics, as defined by the Oxford Dictionaries, means that it is a scientific study of language and its structure, including grammar, syntax, and phonetics. With Linguistics, I can analyze the factors for learning a secondary language in this paper. As a monolingual and being surrounded by an English background, I got more troubled by language acquisition than multilinguals and had a tougher time to pick up language because of different explanations and reasons, or simply even personal conflict. Since the first language I learned was English, learning Indonesian proved to be difficult. When I

One reason is that I was most likely not committed into learning the Indonesian language. Research suggests that learning a new language was not in my hierarchy of needs because I already had a language that could be used in my environment, so another language was not demanding. (Maslow, 1943) Another reason for not learning the Indonesian language was that by being in English schools, Indonesian programs and courses were not formally introduced to me. This meant that I never got a proper opportunity to be able to formally learn the language at a younger