The use of language is one of the greatest necessities of life. Language is the key to communication for all people. It is also the key to success. The greatest aspect of language is its nature to describe, express, explain, teach, entertain, interpret, and everything else. It is a tool that can be used to build and create, or break down and destroy. Language is as simple as walking or running, but can also be extremely complicated. Depending on everyone 's ability to learn, language can be a very difficult task or a pleasant one. According to Merriam-Webster 's Learner 's Dictionary language this is the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used and understood by a community; form or manner of verbal expression; specifically. In order to direct specific information or content, I speak various types of English and Polish depending where I use it: at home, school or work. These various types of English and Polish are different because of audience, expression, and the specific vocabulary and grammar used. I was born in the south of Poland in Europe. My first language is Polish. Then in 5th grade I had to learn Russian which was mandatory at that time. There was no choice. Luckily for me, the possibility of learning English appeared the next year, but as paid lessons. Later on, when I started high school in addition to Russian I could choose to learn German or English. So I started English once again from the
People communicate to show their needs, to share opinions they have. Effective communication can build strong relationships and create good social rapports.
Language is a very import part in our life, we carry it with us through all the steps, processes, moments experiences of our life, language built us and make us grow and the most important thing is that it grows with us, changes, modifies itself, and becomes more appropriate and specific. As we pointed out language help us to create and understand the world around us, gives meaning to everything and gives birth to emotions and feelings; a world without language would be meaningless and very lonely. Language it’s what help us grow up, the more we learn through it, the more we desire to experience and study in deep, leading us to new prospective, opening our mind to more specific and deep concepts, ideas, projects, goals. We really can’t
Language is the the primary way of communicating with one another. This can be written or spoken.
When I was twelve years old, that is first time I came to United States of America to study English alone. At that time,
Before I turned four years old, my mother and I moved to join my father in Berwyn, Illinois. My sister ended having to stay back a couple of months so that she could finish her school year. We arrived to a nice apartment in the suburbs, it was a complete scenery change than what I was use to. Everyone seemed to have giant yards, bright green grass, large fences, and freshly painted houses. Back in Fresnillo, we had our large home, but it was rare for houses to have such large yards, so close to the heart of the town. From the time of the move until my first year in kindergarten, I had a bit of time to adjust, watching cartoons in English, I am not quite sure how I picked it up but I did. At that time my mother only spoke Spanish, my father is bilingual, but he would speak to us in Spanish.
Growing up, in a Polish household was very difficult for me since I was the only one out of my siblings who did not have a clue about our language. My parents were both born and raised in Poland, so in our household my parents would communicate to us in Polish. My mother is fluent in both polish and English, but my father is only fluent in Polish, his English is pretty broken. The years went by and it was growing more complex to communicate with my father, since he is only fluent in polish and I only knew how to communicate in English. So my parents came to an agreement that polish school would provide me with a long lasting impact. My parents always emphasized the importance of a second language, which is very valuable when you are older.
Language can be defined as a means of communication through spoken sounds, written symbols, or hand and body gestures. Subject to this simple definition language is neither human nor animal exclusive, meaning that all living creatures use some form of language to communicate. Humans have created the most advanced system of language. Human language has advanced to include listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing and visual representation. These components are known as the six language arts and while they are individual components they are as well interdependent. What you learn about one affects what and how you learn about the others.
On September 1, 2012 I moved to Virginia, United States. Many can say that, but to me it is one of the greatest things I have done in life. Being born in Puerto Rico, an island in which Spanish is the main language, the wish of learning English was constantly in my mind. As I grew up I started to take English courses in school; however, the courses were not as effective, since I only learned the basics of English. Later on after graduating from sixth grade I was enrolled in a bilingual private school. The fact that the school was mostly in English and that it was private challenged my learning even more than in a public school. Although the school was a great one, I was doing badly accademically. It wasn’t until the school year was over that I decided to move to the state of Virginia in order to begin with my journey. A journey in which I learned many things from life and because of this experience I am preapared to overcome anything that comes between me and what I want.
write in two, English and Russian. Having moved from Russia to America in my teenage
York for two years and began to learn the language and its grammar. It was a very difficult experience
I call my grandmother Babcia, my aunt Ciocia, my uncle Wujek, my curtains firanki, and my comforter ko∤dra. To me, those words don’t even have an English substitute. My house has always been filled with the mixed sounds of Polish and English. While at two years old my doctor was worried that learning two languages would have detrimental effects to my speech, knowing Polish has only made me stronger. Understanding a second language gives me the opportunity to gossip about people in public, but also makes me more understanding of foreigners’ situations. Too many times have my relatives who struggle with English received judgmental stares and rude
Coming to America at the age of four, I can’t say learning english was hard. It felt like my first language. Living in America, I went to
The essay, Little Bowls of Color, by Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, pinpoints an outstanding relationship and perspective on our mother tongue and second language acquisition. Ewa eminently states that the mother tongue –rather than the second language is the first language and the merely medium through which human beings understand the world. Yarbrough, a bilingual and essayist, whose native language is Polish and her second language English, explains the conflicts she confronted all the way down to acquiring her second language while explaining the vitality of the first. This essay unlocks the vital importance of our mother tongue, whereas it correspondingly takes account the acquisition of the second language. Having that said, she expounds her personal experiences upon how to acquire a foreign
Language is an essential part of our daily lives. Language is used to communicate with other people to meet our needs and satisfy our understandings. Everyone uses one language or another. Some have an advantage and are able to use
Although, there is no agreed definition of language among linguists, but we can say that language is the most sophisticated way of communication between any two human beings and far more complex than any other system of communication. The ability of acquiring and using languages is one of the properties that differs us as human beings from other species.