Spanish, Chinese, And Slovak

How will increased language and cultural knowledge help you achieve your future academic and/or professional goals?

Within the next couple years, I would like to have a better idea of what I would like to do with the rest of my life. I hope to become a lot more proficient at the languages I already speak, Spanish and French, as well as learning the rest of the more popular romance languages, which would include Italian, Portuguese, Catalan, and Romanian. This will allow me to be able to converse with a great amount of people across the world, which will in turn help me with my long-term goals, as well as my plan to volunteer at Hannah House, a Crisis Pregnancy Center, and lean how to help women and children that come from backgrounds involving abuse and sexual assault.

I have been independently studying Italian, German, French and Norwegian for the past two years beyond the limited choices offered by my high school’s World Language program. I am absolutely ecstatic to finally be able to take challenging World Language, Linguistics, and Culture Study courses with experienced professors and Graduate students. UW-Madison also boasts an impressive study abroad program that I am eager to take part in for a semester after my Sophomore year.

How does our native language affect we think about the world and our place in it? How is speaking more than one language difficult? Tom Munnecke’s purpose was talking about how learning many languages frustrated him, and how each language frustrated him. Each of these languages he saw as “shells,” and he goes on to talk about each language and its limitations and/or opportunities. The audience for Nothing is Missing are people who are interested in learning one, or more than one, different language. This article could also apply to people who are already bilingual, or already know multiple languages. Munecke would like people who are interested in learning more than one language to know how the first language we speak affects the way we

am fascinated by language in daily life. I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the

“One of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time”, Federico Fellini once stated that “A different language is a different vision of life” and I, in my turn tend to say that he was perfectly right. A person who speaks more than one language can experience multiple personalities, visions and reflections consisting which language is he speaking. High School students should comprehend the real benefit of speaking a foreign language. Being a multilingual myself and speaking fluently four languages and studying another two, I consider that I am qualified enough to persuade that my argument is strong, plausible and not ultimately-right. In the following paragraphs I am going to address the following three reasons why should other High School students learn at least one foreign language? Firstly, learning a new language enhances performances in the academic domain and makes you smarter. Secondly, knowing a new language is a high estimated and a very valuable characteristic in your professional CV. Thirdly, international travel is more pleasant through knowing a foreign language.

It is this powerful ability to think and communicate in multiple cultures and languages that I hope to give to my students in Spain. In a world that is both striving for unity but also constantly misunderstanding differences between peoples, the ability to communicate with one another in a multitude of tongues is priceless. My own bilingual experience allowed me to ask questions about and discover different perspectives. For example, I gained an understanding of how a socialist government and society function from my peers. I was also able to explain aspects of my own government, such as, social mobility, the electoral process and healthcare. Even more crucial, I was able to dispel the myths that Americans eat hamburgers every day, that everyone in my country owns a gun, and that you don’t necessarily die if you can’t pay for

Language is something that is very vital to the way we live today. Without languages people wouldn't be able to communicate in their own unique way. From Spanish to Dutch there are many different beautiful languages that are spoken in this world today. There are about 7,000 different languages that are currently spoken by over 196 countries. This number is steadily declining sadly, out of all of those languages about 90 percent are spoken by less than 90,000 people. 200 to 250 different languages have about a million speakers. As well as 42 languages being spoken by a single speaker. Deborah Tannen, Manuel Muñoz, and Amy Tan are all beautiful writers who come from their own unique background expressing it in different

The famous author Gloria Anzaldua believes that every human being has a diverse set of languages that they use to make it through everyday life. I agree with her 100%, not only do we have those sets, but only one of them is our true voice. For me, my true language is the one I use when I am around my close friends and family. Who are we without our language; without our language? Language is a key factor in knowing who you are, where you come from and even who you want to be.

When embarking on the journey of learning a foreign language, one of the most important aspects to consider is immersing one’s self in the culture, not just the vocabulary. Having a deeper and broader understanding of the cultural gives both insight and wisdom to the people who speak the language one is learning. In an effort to get closer to south American culture, I conducted an interview with Isaura Sampaio. Isaura was born in Brazil, and moved to the United states in 1982. Here, she raised two American born daughters. In addition to speaking Portuguese, the native language of brazil, she is also fluent in Spanish and English. The following is an account of the conversation we shared, detailing some of the more poignant difference between

I also hope to learn how to become more useful in helping others. Along with my major I want to have a focus in international business. I am currently fluent in Tagalog because I served my mission in Manila, Philippines. One of my life goals in life is to be trilingual. I have currently taken Japanese in high school and college. I have invested quite a bit of time into this language and I plan to become fluent in it one way or another. I know how I learn, its going to be through being emerged in the culture. Through this same process I was able to learn Tagalog in 4 months. I know I have what it takes to reach my goals, Heavenly Father taught me that and it is something I hold very dear to my heart. I know that if I am accepted into this program I will go the extra mile and give my all out best

I want to do this because to me it is very important that i experience as much of the world as i can so i can live my life to the fullest. To accomplish this goal i will have to study very hard to learn one language at a time and practice constantly with other people who are fluent in the language that i am currently learning. Currently i am learning spanish and have studied french in the past.To be able to accomplish this would make me estatic because it a very hard thing to learn how to do but I think that it will pay off in the future if I travel the world.When doing this i might lose time with my friends but it may be possible to convince them to study the language with

The language I chose was Silbo Gomero, which is a Spanish language and means the Gomeran whistle and I found it fascinating because it is a whistling language and the most studied one among the very few whistling languages in the world, which is something that I did not even know existed. It is spoken by the people of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago with a population of more than 22,000, to communicate across the deep ravines and narrow valleys that make up the small island. The speakers of the language are referred to as silbador in Spanish, which means whistler. Very little is known of the origins of the language because it went undocumented in its prime. Linguists do

While studying at Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku in Japan, I will also aid my Japanese peers with English and Spanish. I see this as an opportunity to assist those studying in these areas and gain a greater understanding of new friends and peers. One of the primary reason I desire to go to Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku stems from the fact that many of my extraordinary mentors and peers have also attended this university. I see the progress that they have made in understanding of the Japanese language and I wish to follow their example. The individuals studying at this university will be

My interest in learning English is due to the fact that I have always liked to challenge myself. Even though many of my friends and family warned me from majoring in English, as it would be difficult for me, I have accepted the challenge. I have always felt that learning English would increase myself confidence and have people around me impressed. This interest has also grown through my passion in learning about languages, cultures, and traditions. Where I come from, Saudi Arabia, a big number of people came from different countries and spoke different languages. I have realized that English could be a means to interact with a lot of people speaking different languages. I have also realized that English is the lingua franca of today’s world with no close rivals. Learning English actually