The Value Of Forming Connections With People

Nowadays many students from my country Brazil consider the opportunity of studying abroad in another country. I am a student athlete from Brazil and I am living my dream of attaining college in the United States. The idea of living in a foreign country, where you will encounter different places, make new friends, and live a different way of life, sounds exciting and fun at the beginning, but those expectations are not always met. The story “Always living in Spanish” is about a Chilean girl who loves her country. However, due to the violent environment, Marjorie and her family decide to go to America, hoping to live a safer life. Many foreign students, such as Marjorie in “Always Living in Spanish”, experience difficulty integrating in another society because they have difficulty expressing themselves in that society´s language. This issue also evolves problems in adapting to another culture and living a normal daily life.

After so many incidents, I was determined to learn this foreign language and prove to people that I wasn’t not lost in this country. Every day afterschool I would ask my family to help me with my English. One year later, I was able to understand what people around me were saying, and I could do basic communications with people. School came to me as an enjoying part of my day, something I looked forward to when going to bed, and an opportunity, a gift for me to learn the language of this new country.

Learning a new language seems to have only positive effects. However, for a Mexican American, accomplishing this goal brought him drawbacks in the interaction with his family. In his essay, ‘’Public and Private language,’’ Richard Rodriguez describes the difficulty in learning a new language and the sacrifice he makes to accomplish his goal. Richard Rodriguez shares the difficulty for older people, as they learn a new language; however, for younger generations is easier to learn a new language. Also, the new language creates a lack of communication for Richard Rodriguez.

On this trip, I anticipate communicating with people of a different culture may be a challenge. Although I do not speak Brazilian Portuguese, I know that we will have a bilingual interpreter with us as well as NJMS students who speak both languages and thus, I know that the language barrier will not be a big challenge. More than the language, I want to be contentious on this trip regarding acknowledging my privileges and that I need to understand the Brazilian approach to medicine in the context of their culture as well as the resources available to them. Furthermore, I understand that I have limited knowledge and skills as a first-year medical student and so can only provide basic medical services at this time. Therefore, I am most apprehensive about effectively understanding and communicating with the Brazilian community and recognizing that currently I am only able to provide a limited amount of aid to these communities.

Perhaps most profoundly, majoring in French has helped me in better understanding and respecting those who may be different from me. I have had the pleasure of building friendships with a lovely, diverse group of people, thanks to my French courses, the Francophone Student Association, and the Alliance française in the greater Indianapolis area. Studying abroad in Aix-en-Provence, France, this past summer also allowed me the opportunity to forge connections with Francophones across the world. The relationships I have built as a result of speaking French transcend the barriers that can so often divide us – whether it be race, nationality, age, gender, religious convictions, or political

“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.

In this world, there are many different countries speaking their own individual languages. People can identify from each other’s language of who they are and where they are from. The language I speak shows my identity, culture and this is who I am and where I originally come from. However, my culture can be lost when immigrating to the most diverse cultural country which is the United States. The reason is because I obligated to learn a new language to adapt into the new society.

The three different languages that I know have shaped my personality. I’ve become sensitive to “code switching” when it comes to talking to different people such as my parents or even my “bạn” (friends). Not being an immobile, unchanged definition, literacy can be greater than the language itself, but it can manifest into a lifestyle. Assimilating into the cultures, because of the literacy experiences, widened my lens of perspective. Villanueva creates the idea of creating connections by learning different literacies. Already being fluent in my home literacies, it allowed me to make connections with other people of my culture. Not only that, but the gamer language has allowed me to make virtual friends that also know my home language. The difference is that we can speak casually to each other. The enormous fraction of the above-average Asian gamer (i.e. League of Legends, Overwatch, etc.) intertwined my path with the multiple literacies achieved throughout

With his guidance, I discovered that studying a language and its roots is key to understanding how the structure and beliefs of a society change. How we think is expressed through our use of language, and thus to truly connect with other nations we must be able to communicate effectively with people in their own mother tongue. I am confident that this program

Why do people abide by the rules? Travis Hirshi in 1969, believed that criminal behavior is controlled by societal ties or social bonds. The Social Bond Theory states that humans behave conventional through the power of internalized norms, conscious, and the desire for approval. When the individuals bonds breaks between the family, friends, or school, the individual then becomes free to engage in deviant and or criminal activity. This theory can be broken down into four major elements, attachment, commitment, involvement, and belief. Attachment can be the emotional bond between the parent and the child. If the relationship is healthy there is a much better chance the individual will grow up to be a conformist. Compared to an unhealthy relationship increasing the chance of the individual to grow up a criminal. Involvement can be measured as the actual time spent on the activity. More time spent on conventional activities leaves less time for unconventional activities. Commitment is regarded as effort one makes towards their community or education. The more positive effort one makes towards their education and community, the less likely one will become deviant. Belief can be considered the respect one has for the authorities and rules. When one violates authority, that individual believes in the rules just decides to reject them. (Megan Ortiz, paragraph 6) Megan from forensic science explains, “Belief plays a role in deviance in2 ways. The criminal

Learning a new language always brings with it many issues, but mainly when this one it is not very usual in your environment. I am from the Dominican Republic, a country located in the Caribbean which is visited by a big amount of tourist the whole year. The English Language is very useful due to it allows the people to communicate with all the visitors in all the tourist areas and through all the country, however I live in a non tourist area and a new language learning it's not easy to perform.

Thus I chose the theme, interaction with the ‘other’, to reflect on the impact this interaction has on individuals. The readings regarding this theme talk about a superficial and a profound effect that intercultural experiences have on people depending on their situation of exposure. The superficial effect refers to study abroad programs were student get exposure to another culture through food, language, and by being a tourist. Meanwhile, the profound effect refers to individuals who were expose to other cultures in hard circumstances like colonialism, imperialism or

Studying abroad and furthering my education are things that I have always longed to do. It gives the opportunity to learn about other cultures, learn about what you want to learn about, and have fun experiencing new things while studying. New friends can be made, new foods can be discovered, and something new can be taken back home to my friends and family. For my career in Criminal Justice, I want to be able to communicate and understand others who may not speak English very well. Working in this type of field requires learning more than one language, and it also can make things much easier. If I am given this opportunity, I have a huge possibility to be a game-changer and to help others get rid of the feeling of being left out due to language barriers that can sometimes arise.

Learning another language has allowed me to expand my view on the world. Learning that my target is a binding force in the same manner as English has shown me that all humans are alike despite physical and social divisions. Learning another language has also shown me that there are other rich cultures around the world to be appreciated. In addition, in many Spanish-speaking cultures, people’s elders are people who deserve a great amount of respect. This viewpoint on people who are older has proved important in my life as even in the United States, this type of respect is greatly appreciated. Because I learned that family plays a central role in Spanish speaking nations, my view on family’s importance has been enriched as well.

Why should people nowadays see languages as a big prize? A person speaks more languages have more opportunities are skewed to him because he benefits the profit comparing to a person who speaks only one standard language. It is time for globalization and its effects on children for speaking other languages as a must. In two articles “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez and “Whose Voice Is It Anyway?” by Victor Villanueva, the two authors both expressed their opinions on native language and how the assimilation impacts a child. However, Rodriguez believed that the assimilation was beneficial for him as he had grown up in the English-speaking world and he disliked bilingual education which created many controversy.