English is new!

 

 

The language continues to makes new daily in many countries. And the headline isn't stating the obvious.

 

Some interesting questions to explore about English language:

 

• What does it means exactly?
• Is it saying that everyone in the world speaks English?
• Is it saying, then, that every country in the world reconize English as an official language?
• What does it mean to say that a language is a global language?
• Why is English the language which is usually cited in this connetction?
• How did the situation arise?and it could change?
• Or is it the case that, once a language becomes a global language, is it there forever?

 

I really wanted to know all these answers, but it is a matter of fact that We as Portuguese speakers have a mix of feelings related to English.

 

You may be strongly motivated to learn it, because you know that will put you in touch with more people than any other language, but at the same time you know it will take you a great deal of effort to master it, and you may begrudge that effort. Having made a progress, you will feel pride in your achievement, and savour the communicative power you have at your disposal , but may none the less fell that your mother tongue speakers of English have unfair advantage over you.

 

And you how you feel about it ?



Life Lessons

10 Amazing Life Lessons

 

YOU CAN LEARN FROM

 

ALBERT EISTEIN:

 

 

1- Follow your curiosity.

 

2- Perseverance is priceless.

 

3- Focus on the present.

 

4- The imagination is powerful.

 

5- Make mistakes.

 

6- Live in the moment.

 

7- Create value.

 

8- Don't expect different results.

 

9- Knowledge comes from experience.

 

10- Learn the rules and then play better.

 

HAVE YOU DONE ANY OF THIS? I need to confess that I really have a POWERFUL IMAGINATION!

 

 



A world full of Englishes

Why do we have a language? To talk and write to each other.But what do we talk and write about?This is where culture comes in.

Language enable us to say who we are and how we live. It's natural, therefore, to find English-teaching courses telling us about local shops, national events, and famous places. While studying points of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, learns take in a great deal of cultural information. If the course focuses on British English, the settings may be such places as Oxford Street and the Tower of London.If American English, they migth be Broadway and Times Square.

Today English is found in countries all over the world, and everywhere we see the language changing as people use it to talk about their local situation.The most noticeable change is the new vocabulary they use when they want to talk in English about plants and animals, food and drink, customs and pratcices, and other features of everyday life. A visitor can sometimes find it difficult to understand what's being said,especially when the conversation turns to politics,folklore, city streets ,or TV personalities. Local people unconsciously use names, words and expressions that reflect their culture, which outsiders have to learn if they want to participate.

Everyone in brazil knows what bateria is (the drummers in a samba school0.Everyone in India knows what alakh is ( a numerical unit, 100,000).Each country has thousands of works like these, may borrowed from local languages,which can form part of an English conversation.Along with regional features of pronunciation and grammar, they make up a country's national dialect of English.

The first national English dialects appearead in Britain in the Middle Ages, when the English of Scotalnsd began to differ from English of England.Later ,American and British English diverged.Then local varieties developed in Australia, South Africa, and other territories of the Britih Empire .Later still,newly independent nations such as Nigeria continued the process,adapting English to suit her needs, Today, we have to prepared for a world full of "ENGLISHES".