4.2 Esperanto
A posteriori language, widely spoken through the world, is Esperanto. The basics of the language were published by Ludvig Zamenhof, who wrote under a pseudonym Dr Esperanto. The main assumption was to create an easy to learn a language, which would be used to international communication.
The main idea of Esperanto was not to replace the national languages but to help in international contacts. This language could be used as a neutral way of communication between foreign language people. Esperanto could also support the language minority, which would have a better chance to survive in the land dominated by a few major languages. Esperanto is much easier to learn because of its construction, plain and regular structure.
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It was a new universal language, which stood in opposition to nationalism and aggression with “linguistic handshake” and where people of different nations could communicate with each other. Despite all the mockery from publicist and linguists, Zamenhof abandoned his copyright and signed the book with a name which meant “one who hopes” in his new language: Dr Esperanto. Esperanto has a great advantage over all purposed universal language. At the turn of XIX and XX century, many all-reaching languages has been invented: Univesalglot, Volapük, Interlingua, Indo, Glosa and many others. Moreover, Esperanto is an inventive try to standardise different elements of roman and German languages. Nowadays, there are between 50 000 to 100 000 Esperanto’s users. It may not sound impressive while there are over one billion Mandarin Chinese speakers and over 800 million speakers of …show more content…
Esperanto represents the efforts to create peace and equality through eliminate language barriers. No matter Esperants admit it, they are probably disappointed with the fact that Esperanto is only the subculture language. As Okrent describes “Esperantoland” is a region of an old hippie, vegans, folk musician, a pot-smoking anarchist who are determined to withstand the global hegemony of English.
However, even the most urgent Klingon speaker does not want Klingon to become adopted by the United Nations. There is a new differentiation of converted languages, some of them are created to be exclusive and unpopular, and the others to be pointless.
Okrent in “In the Land of Invented Languages” analysis lot of material apart from Klingon and Esperanto, but her main focus is on that two
Se Habla Espanol is an essay by Tanya Maria Barrientos, whom discusses her struggles with learning her native language as an adult after years of discrimination for the color of her skin, regardless of being raised in America. Initially when I read the essay, I believed that it could only apply to Latino women, due to it being published in a magazine directed towards Latino women, but before I finished reading the passage I realized that her story could apply to anyone struggling to learn their native tongue or a language in general. So I quickly discovered that you can’t judge a passage by the periodical it’s published in. Her social development and sense of belonging were greatly influenced by the way she perceived stereotypes against her
Espada believes that being able to speak your native is your personal way to stay connected to your culture, Bilingualism to Espada its more than speaking 2 languages it a piece of your identity. In his essay, he states "He can rip my tongue out if he wants. but it won 't work, (because I speak Spanish with my heart)"(7, 97-100). Espada takes the view of it 's not a skill that developed it 's something you 're born with, something that can never be taken away. Unlike Rodriguez who states that Spanish is a private language, and English is a public
Although I don’t know much Spanish, I can communicate with them better to some extent. Also, learning a language can help you better understand the culture. In my case, learning Spanish helped me understand the hispanic culture better. Although I believe Spanish helped me, it was very difficult to learn.
In the U.S the primary and only language is English. English is an international language that is a custom to everyone. It is also well-known amongst majority of the nations. English is also practiced and taught to people in Ethiopia. Almost all schools in Ethiopia are taught with English.
A language sample analysis (LSA) is a tool that generates the coding and transcriptions of a language sample to document the language used every day in various speaking situations (Miller, Andriacchi, & Nockerts, 2016). Language samples are typically 50-100 words in length and are voice-recorded and then transcribed by the clinician. Language samples are done using spontaneous speech, such as typical conversation, or narrative contexts, such as story or event recalls (Miller, Andriacchi, & Nockerts, 2016). The speech-language pathologist (SLP) will take the recording and write out, in the exact words of the child and clinician, every utterance (Bowen, 2011). The SLP will then "code" the sample.
According to Espada, in order to maintain Spanish, people must fight for the right to speak it. English and its speakers deteriorate Spanish by using discrimination, power, and ignorance. In the beginning, Espada argues that many people in the United States want to eliminate all Spanish, cultural warfare. Espada believes that without language, a part of culture is missing.
However, in order for one to truly understand the arguments made by the authors they must also understand the context behind these arguments; therefore, knowing how the individual authors’ definition of bilingualism lets the reader truly absorb what points they’re trying to make and why. In Espada’s essay, he defines bilingualism as a way for a person to remain in contact with their different cultural identities. There are many areas in the essay where the reader could interpret this definition from. However, the most significant piece of evidence appears at the beginning of the essay where Espada mentions his friend Jack Agueros’ analogy to describe his bilingualism “English and Spanish are like two dogs I love. English is an obedient dog.
Every culture has their own folklore stories and being able to appreciate them in both spanish and english is fun. At family gatherings, it’s nice to sit around and talk with my aunts and uncles when they share stories of their old days in Mexico. The activities they would do together and how they would get reprimanded by their strict mother, my grandmother. Yet going to school and learning history and having American friends talk about their culture in America is a nice experience. When one is a monolingual speaker, he or she is missing out on a completely different captivating culture.
Learning English will help more people understand and help the government and business industries. With one unified nation, prosperity and community between cultures would grow. All of which would lead to a more outstanding and organized
Confident Relationships Built on Language Wouldn’t it be exciting to grow up learning more than one language? Imagine being in Japan for a week on vacation with a group of friends, and one day decided to go to the oldest zoo in Japan, Ueno Zoo. To get to Ueno Zoo, riding the bullet train was a necessity, except knowing which line was the correct line, when to get off the bullet train, or even which ticket to buy was a daunting task. Nobody in your group has the confidence to ask the workers for help since they don’t have the knowledge of Japanese to help them.
The House on Mango Street Message Not many of us can say that we have lived up to the expectations given to us and internally benefited from it. In the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza struggles with growing up with many expectations placed on her. She lives in a Latino neighborhood in Chicago with many neighbors who teach her important lessons. Overall, the story has a message that you should not rely on expectations and the author shows it by using the characterization of Esperanza and through figurative language.
Throughout generations cultural traditions have been passed down, alongside these traditions came language. The language of ancestors, which soon began to be molded by the tongue of newer generations, was inherited. Though language is an everlasting changing part of the world, it is a representation of one’s identity, not only in a cultural way but from an environmental standpoint as well. One’s identity is revealed through language from an environmental point of view because the world that one is surrounded with can cause them to have their own definitions of words, an accent, etc. With newer generations, comes newer forms of languages.
This shows how much of an impact social media platforms have made. The most popular YouTube account has over fifty million subscribers. The most popular account on Instagram
TITLE: Each student should learn foreign language. GENERAL PURPOSE: To persuade SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade people that each of student should learn foreign language MAIN IDEA: - learning foreign language enhance communication skills. - learning foreign language enhance job and career opportunities.
It is encouraged for students to learn foreign languages as it has numerous benefits. Most countries have introduced foreign language starting from the early age. Today, the high school graduates are required to study foreign language in schools as it becomes a requirement for them to graduate from certain college with minimum of two years of learning foreign languages. Hence, the students are encouraged to learn on other language. Basically, foreign language is a native to another country and it is also a language which is not spoken in the native country of the person referred to.