Barriers Of Foreign Language

Language can unify people. English has more than 1.9 billion competent speakers in the world. Charles Foran, author of “Lingua Franchise” calls English a compromise tongue. This means, “default neutral terrain for doing deals and making friends” (100). English is rapidly growing globally.

“No Habla English”. “21 million people living in the United States cannot speak English. Citizens are not just speaking Spanish, but Chinese and Russian are rising fast.” (U.S. Bureau of Census, 2009) To force a citizen to speak a new language is discrimination. Non-English speaking citizens and immigrants that are without good English skills will fall academically, in the judicial system and when receiving proper medical care.

My research is focused on the problems associated with cross-cultural communication and how awareness of culture, language, tradition, and business practices can increase the advantages to globalization. This report will be field specific in

The power of words is immeasurable. Words help people to voice their opinions and express their thoughts and feelings. Our everyday lives are shaped by communication and in general language. A persons language can often influence success and happiness. America is viewed as a melting pot for numerous different people and their respective languages. Language is so vital in our society that a person of diverse ethnic background can face many tribulations throughout their everyday life.

In order to break language barriers and encourage career potential, the bordering state of Texas, Tamaulipas, is requiring the public school students to learn conversational English. The state has declared itself the first bilingual state and believes that new opportunities in Texas will become more available to the students of Tamaulipas if they learn English from elementary school through high school. Considering "more than 50% US-Mexico trade comes through Tamaulipas and Texas", I believe the state is making a wise decision by implementing the bilingual program. Furthermore, Governor Eugenio Hernandez suggests that Tamaulipas intends on turning the stretch of land by the Gulf Coast into a beach getaway. In order to serve tourists that may be brought into the area, Hernandez believes that learning English is an essential component to their success. Since Texas and Tamaulipas are neighbors, Tony Garza suggests that Texas should emphasize the importance of Texan students learning Spanish as well.

In “How to Raise a Global Kid”, by Lisa Miller, Miller claims the task facing American kids who must share a global understanding in order to strive in today’s worldwide economies. The right time for kids to study another language has been a question since the world started thinking about worldwide opportunity, especially in nations whose main language is not English. Raising a global kid is about helping children be well-educated and efficient globally. Global kids have a better ability to understand us than we have of understanding them and of course there are probably more Chinese living in the United States than Americans are living in China. Lisa Miller believes there are three areas in helping children successfully: learning a foreign language, embrace world music, and learn different cultures to be able to live in a global economy.

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The United States, the country that was founded on ideologies that promised the “American Dream” has increasingly become a more diverse nation. Thousands of immigrants from all over the world still continue to flock to the United States in hope of a better future. These foreigners start a new life and have children who can reap all the benefits of being United States citizens. One of those benefits is partaking in one of the best education systems in the world. American higher education promises superb schooling allowing for social mobility, status, and ensures financial security. As a result, first-generation students are reshaping the demographics in higher education, accounting for one third of the undergraduate population.

Immigrants and refugees seeking services seem to lack knowledge and understanding of American culture. This may lead to legal issues and barriers that can ultimately impact their health and well-being. Language barriers are a huge problem among the immigrant and refugee community which leads to laws being broken without immigrants and refugees realizing that they are breaking the law. For example, in one’s native country, bribing law enforcement may be acceptable, while in the United States, it is an offense which will result in arrest. Immigrants and refugees need to be taught this in a way that they can understand.

At the age of 5, I returned to the U.S from China. Like many Chinese-American children, I was a kid sent by my parents to another country to live with my grandparents in the countryside of China. By the time I came back to the U.S, I already had a difficult time catching up with my peers due to my language barrier. Those days were the harshest. Not being able to communicate with other kids, I became extremely outcasted as an individual. Eventually, this lead to countless hours of doodling flowers and sunsets on my own. As Ive gotten older, I realized that art was my outlet. It became a way for me to express a language without having to understand the rules and reasons behind a language. Although I struggled with this language barrier for a

For the past few chapters, we have been discussing language barriers, Dimension of culture, and culture and women. Each chapter that we have discussed also played a part in the film Spanglish that we watched for class. The topics that I found most interesting was language barriers and Dimensions of culture because it is so many things that fit into those topics. For example, language is a set of symbols shared by the community to communicate meaning and experience and example of this was displayed in the movie Spanglish when Flor and her daughter moved to California from Mexico and the moved into a Hispanic neighborhood with them moving into that type of neighborhood they were able to share the same experiences and be able to communicate better

The number of Languages spoken throughout the world is estimated to be 6,000. Although a few languages are for wider communication around the world, these are very often spoken as second, third, fourth, or later-acquired languages. Fewer than 25% of the world 's approximately 200 countries recognize two or more official languages, with a mere handful recognizing more than two. Despite there being lots of bilinguals and multilinguals, there is also a bunch of monolingual people in the world. The adult population is allowing their children not to learn a foreign language, drastically underfunding language courses in middle to high school level classes. Because they think it 's not necessary in this century, thinking they don 't require communication with other people from other countries. But the truth is that it can actually benefit in more ways than people think. The United States school system has started to not require foreign language class for graduation requirements, this places the U.S at a disadvantage in the world scene.

Uniquely put by Christopher Dawson, a British scholar, “the greatest obstacle to international understanding is the language barrier.” Essentially, Dawson speaks about the great lengths some people have to go through to understand another’s culture, and a lot of the time they fail. Inspired by the stimulus material, “Vanishing Voices,” I delved into the limitations language barriers put on society and how to solve them. I found these limitations are reflected in business, education, and cultural expansion. In essence, Future business deals, economic downturns, the health of foreigners and education for future generations are at risk without the mass integration of a universal language. Language barriers are what cause a great deal of risk in the business place and for foreign travelers and tourists. Ensuring a more successful and safe future for generations to come, involves the identification of issues caused by language barriers resulting in an absence of an effective health care system, economic downturns involving business deals that failed, and a lack of a proper education system for those who do not speak the major languages spoken by the majority of the world, English, Mandarin, French, or Spanish.

Nobody’s born with the language they speak today. Everyone is born with a clean tongue that is transformed to make sounds and words that are native to their homeland and people they were raised by. Language can’t be described as a trait, like the color of your skin or the width of your shoulders. When society discriminates against individuals that speak differently, they are judging them based on how they were raised and how they were taught to speak, people don’t see them as just a person that didn’t have a choice of how they wanted to communicate, and conformed to fit into a puzzle of a whole area of people that sound the same way. I believe that people are molded by experience and adapt to the environment they were placed in. Life is

As this country progresses more people from other countries are migrating over to America. Furthermore, for America to continue to grow financially and continue to get the resources it needs, the citizens/ business owners must know how to communicate. Like most cultures writing and communication is an important part of everyone’s everyday life. It is important for everyone to know how to communicate, whether it is through writing or verbal communication, with someone outside of their culture. With the world becoming more globalized, one must know how to effectively communicate, especially those in a business setting.