Graduation Speech : Language And Language Differences

Firstly, I was really poor at speaking English. When I go through the gate for foreigners in airport in USA, the officer said to me "Do you have food in your suitcase?". Of course, now I can see his point but then I couldn't understand what he said and I was confused. So it took a half hour to get the gate since I landed in the USA. And fortunately, I finally reached the International English School, FLS but I couldn't follow their class. That's why I study a lot more than other students. Nevertheless, I couldn't feel my English was getting better. I was struggling with the situation. If I would love to communicate with other students or native teachers,

I had a great time today with the children and I am very proud of their progress this year. I hope they can keep practicing their Spanish during Summer break. Depending of the number of students registered I will keep teaching this advance class next year.

Good afternoon [name of members of the head table], teachers, parents, students, fellow graduates and distinguished guests. I must first and foremost thank God for this blessing and honor to stand before you today as Valedictorian of the Class of 2011. Yet, today is not only my day to shine. Every graduate present here is deserving of high praise and recognition and I would like to congratulate each of you on reaching this milestone in life. I think I speak for my fellow graduates when I say that this is a moment we have always imagined and one we will remember for the rest of our lives.

This third grade is a multicultural class, students are coming from different countries, such as Italy, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Colombia, el Salvador and Argentina. Too often, students are misinformed and misguided about peer’s background and, this has been provoked some differences in the classroom that the teacher many times doesn 't know how to handle it. Sharing of many cultures can become difficult especially in early ages. Children have learned from home their own culture, the culture they live with, and these children are between 8 and 9 years old, which can make the understanding of culture differences more difficult, especially when parents reinforce this attitudes toward people of different culture.

It’s sophomore year, the first day of school. I scramble to find my first period class, Spanish II. The bus is borderline late, so I walk into class and there are only a few seats left. The new Spanish teacher is speaking what sounds to me like rapid-fire Spanish, and I’m not comprehending a word, and I’m thinking, “There’s no way. There’s no possible way I’m going to do well in this class or understand what’s going on. How am I going to do this?”

Hey Tim. Fyi you can come over anytime you like. I’m chilling out here until Jessica gets off of school… “Goodbye Fred. Ok. I might in a bit…I’ll be there soonish. Hello” Lol that was a weird message. “Have a problem? I thought I spelled everything right” Spelling is great, it just was weird. That was messages between my brother and I through texts. This illustrates how I broke a convention, which Croteau & Hoynes (2015, pg.93) defines as “a practice or technique that is widely used in a particular social setting”. According to Croteau & Hoynes (2015, pg.92), conversation analysis is “a method of analyzing the patterns in face-to-face conversation that produce the smooth, back-and-forth turn-taking between such exchanges”. I disrupted my mother’s conversation analysis in my face-to-face conversations. She was under the impression that I was departing when, in fact, I was not and vice-versa. My starting a conversation with farewell took her off guard and she didn’t quite know how to respond to that situation since I broke the social norm and English syntax. At my farewell, her conception of turn-taking within the conversation was shattered since she expected me to leave and had a sense of finality to it so as she

The first day of kindergarten, we clung to our parents afraid of the new experiences that awaited us. We looked around at all of the other faces not sure what to think. Fear and doubt crippled us. Little did we know that this day was the beginning of a journey stock full of obstacles and rewards.

I agonized over writing this speech for a long time, because I felt like nothing I could say would make a difference, first because I don't know if what I could say would be good advice, and second because I don't know if advice about things like being true to yourself and setting goals and all that is actually helpful. How can I give advice that I can't even follow in my own life? And even if you are mesmerized for my two minutes, you would walk out of here and your life wouldn't be any different. Or maybe you'd be inspired for a day, and then forget. But still, the speech had to be written.

In the commencement speech entitled “This is Water,” the speaker came to highlight to the graduates at the commencement ceremony, what the “real world “was like because he thought they are not alert enough to know. He made reference to this through the anecdote at the beginning where the two young fish didn’t know what water was and of course water is life to fishes. Therefore, the speaker found it necessary to tell what life was really about through a commencement speech because of his opinion that they may have limited knowledge concerning it. In paragraph 6 of his speech, he states “The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what ‘day in, day out’ really means. There happen to be whole large part of adult

I met two young ladies in Starbucks last week. They were talking with each other and drinking coffee. Based on their language, accent, and their appearance, I understood that they are from a different culture, so I decided to ask them if I can have an interview with them. One of them clearly said that she is not interested, but the other lady said that she will talk with me. This reaction gave me the first clue about the cultural differences, and how it can affect people’s daily life. The first lady expressed his opinion clearly, while in my culture we feel bad to say no to others, so we prefer to put ourselves in

A majority of high school students try to take more Advanced Placement (AP) and AICE classes in order to obtain college credit hours well in advance, and each one presents an exam at the end of the year. If they pass these exams with a certain grade or score, then they can avoid taking certain prerequisite classes because they met some of the requirements for their college general education plan.. In fact, I was able to skip English Composition I in my freshman year , for my scores in AP English Language and Composition allowed me to enroll in Honors English Composition II.

my life. You’ve seen me grow, you have encouraged me, cared for me, believed in

You may find it difficult at first to communicate with others in university. This may be due to difficulties with language or difficulties with accents. You may find it difficult to understand your lecturer or other students. You must not be embarrassed. It is important to tell someone of your difficulties, so that you can receive help.

I feel that people from the UK are super polite and super elegant at the same time. Always wonder on how they manage to keep up with this because they speak differently than we do in Russia. They are also much friendlier and louder too, which was hard to get use too when coming here,” she stated. I felt the total opposite, I felt that most British people are more reserved and kept to themselves. When Americans are over the top nice and loud. She always began to talk about the study of kinesics of Londoners. She states, that “foreigners seem to smile a lot more here. In Russia when you smile it means that they actually like you. In the UK it means you 're being friendly. It seems a lot like a lot of the body language here is overly nice here. It is super challenging to understand if they actually like me or if they just being nice,” she states. She made it clear throughout the interview on how overall, London is much more friendlier and louder than her culture back at home.

English class seemed to be the most dreadful to take within school. Writing essays for most of my grade in a class is not what I was looking forward too. When I entered college I knew that it would be one of many challenging classes I would have to take. Starting from the lowest English class to moving on up, the writing assignments became longer and more thought out. The time came when I got into this class that I knew more work was going to have to be put into essays and thus brought out what I had not seen before in my work progress.