English Language Barriers

The first challenge for immigrants is the language barrier. Since English is the second or third language for most immigrants, they face a lot of problems to communicate. Although, immigrants have some knowledge of English, the pronunciation of most words is different. So they can’t understand and

“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.

To begin with, in many cases, one of the biggest hurdles for an immigrant to overcome is the language barrier. Imagine the fear an immigrant must feel, being immersed in a society whose language and culture is entirely different from their own. The bravery and diligence displayed by such foreigners to overcome this fear is admirable to

First and foremost, new immigrants encounter copious issues to fit in the new society. The major concern among these problems is the language barrier. The excerpt from ‘Newcomer’ written by Mehri Yalfani 's highlights the challenges that Susan, an immigrant from Iran, faced throughout her course of understanding and speaking English. According to the story, both the hesitation to be fluent in an alien

One of the biggest challenge and hurdle immigrants face is the language barrier.In The Book Of Unknown Americans Alma encounters a situation where she gets lost and becomes desperate to go back home.Crying for help over the phone, but no reply. This makes her realize the importance of the English language,from that point she starts to carry a dictionary for help. Jobs could be another issue where language barrier may intervene.The Book of Unkonwn Americans demonstrates how harsh and crucial Arturo’s job conditions are.If the language barrier wasn't a factor, Aurtho could've had a job where the conditions were not as harsh. language is exposed everywhere, immigrants try to learn and familiarize with common phrases and words that may help them in the future and eventually overcome the language

In recent years, debates regarding policy have focused heavily on the topic of immigration in the United States. Despite all of the attention that this topic has gained, it seems that skilled immigrants is one group that has been overlooked. In large part, this particular group is becoming more prominent due to the fact that many are becoming entrepreneurs, especially in the Silicon Valley. Thus, I am interested in finding out how skilled immigrant entrepreneurs are beneficial in numerous aspects such as economic growth, innovation, public policy and societal changes. Moreover, I want to explore what challenges and opportunities these immigrants face and how their involvement within Silicon Valley provide a beneficial influence for growth. One primary source of my research will be the documentary film Starting-Up in America by Tarik Ansari. A very interesting fact quoted in the documentary stated by Vivek Wadhwa, colleague of the Stanford Law School, “Despite the fact that they constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, immigrants have started 52% of Silicon Valley’s technology companies and contributed to more than 25% of our global patents”. Starting-Up in America focuses on the challenges experienced by Silicon Valley’s skilled immigrant entrepreneurs with U.S. Immigration. The documentary interviews a handful of successful immigrant entrepreneurs asking questions such as: “Why come to the United States to start a business”, “How does your project benefit the U.S.

“ An estimated 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies have been started by immigrants or their children. Had they been prevented from coming to this country, the American business landscape might look a lot different. Tech giants Apple (Steve Jobs, the child of an immigrant from Syria), Google (Sergey Brin, Russia), Yahoo! (co-founder Jerry Yang, Taiwan), and eBay (Pierre Omidyar, France) all have immigrant roots. Others major brands founded by immigrants or their children include AT&T, Budweiser, DuPont, Nordstrom, and Pfizer,” ( Arora, Rohit). The evidence that has been gathered shatters the misbelief that immigrants do not contribute to the United States but steal jobs from native-born workers. It also validates the claim that immigrants are beneficial to the U.S. economic system through entrepreneurship because it opens many income options. The opposing view is “ According to a review of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau data, legal and illegal immigrants gained over a million additional jobs between 2008 and 2010 even as millions of American citizens were losing their jobs during that same time period,” (Jones, Alex). While it is true that immigrants have been gaining success through entrepreneurship, it must be taken into account that this opposing view does not provide any evidence of immigrants being the cause of the millions of Americans being laid off, but simply addresses the immigrants success as if it took part in the native-born workers losses. According to research, “ The average immigrant-owned business hires 11 employees, these businesses would account for between 3.7 million and 5.2 million jobs in the formal economy, which is equivalent to 45 percent of those who are currently unemployed in the United States. Some of these 3.7 million to 5.2 million jobs may be new jobs as a result of immigrants starting

Upon arrival in the United States, immigrants face many obstacles. While also facing the obstacle of being uneducated in a foreign land, immigrants are constant subjects of the corrupt actions of predatory people, and constant subjects of discrimination, ultimately preventing them from achieving their goal of success within a new country. To solve these issues, immigrants are forced to learn a new language and culture while accepting the fate of their living conditions and working harder to prove themselves in their new nation.

In addition, my rationale for choosing this topic was myself as second language leaner. I understand what children are going through in their school to learn English. The learning process is not just about the language but it is about the new culture, food, habits, social differences and many other sides of being immigrant in a new part of the world. When I’m in contact with English leaners, it is very instinctive for me to find ways to explain with gestures or simple word what they are trying to understand. I totally can understand their anxiety and frustration since it is a normal process for those who are learning a new language. I felt that so many times when I moved here. I felt less than everyone and stupid many times that I tried so speak and explain some points of view that I had, and I couldn’t express my view or feelings on specific topics. I got very frustrating. It seemed the American society was not welcoming my culture since I didn’t speak the language. It would be great if the policy makers could understand more how hard and how much energy takes to learn a new language. Then they could be more careful about laws they create for the

Tan claims that immigrants and non-native English speakers face many difficulties during their daily encounters. These people may not speak perfect English, and society and sometimes even their own family members may think of them as uneducated or less of a person. Tan’s argument is compelling because she presented strong evidence using different literary elements such as context,

When I first came to the US, I couldn’t speak a word of English. At the beginning, a huge depression invaded me; after school, I locked in my bathroom and cried for hours. After a month, I remembered that I had come to this country to pursue a better education, thus a better future. Therefore, I decided that something else had to be done because weeping wasn’t solving anything. That day, I developed a schedule, where I would spend half of the day studying vocabulary and reviewing conversations until I learned the language, which I did a year later.

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

In the first two years in U.S, Thomas's family faced with many problems. For instance, although Thomas's family is well-educated in China, they still have language barrier as they do not speak English well. Having the language barrier, Thomas's parents are unable to find suitable jobs as most of the jobs in U.S. require the workers who can speak English well. According to what Thomas said, since they comes from China and less communicates with their neighborhoods, most of the neighborhoods did not like them and discriminate them. For instance, Thomas and his parents were called " Chinese pig" and told to go back to China by their neighborhoods. Besides language barrier, Thomas's family having no relatives and friends in U.S. also made them

Immigrant entrepreneurs’ contribution to sustainable economic growth and employment creation has increased over the past decade in Germany. In 2015, more than 40% of newly registered businesses in Germany were founded by people with migrant background, and about one-fifth of those engaged in entrepreneurial activity were born abroad. And these goes beyond traditional ethnic businesses to wider range of innovative sectors. The federal government has been supporting these foreigners with eased entrance conditions to start businesses in Germany, and is constantly enhancing its efforts to looking for more ways to attract highly skilled immigrants.

For centuries, communication has been impaired by language barriers, especially in face-to-face interaction. Previous translation methods such as online translators, multilingual dictionaries and interpreters have attempted to help surmount this obstacle. However, they hinder many vital communications methods, specifically, body-language, non-verbal cues and tone. Reduction in many key components of communication make it very difficult to have meaningful face-to-face interaction with people who speak other languages. Over the past year there have been new technological developments designed to help remove these language barriers. These products allow people who do not speak each others languages to have a fluid conversation with each other by translating what one person is saying into an earpiece worn by the other.