... the country, understand the language, customs and know how to get the best deal for the company. Out of the languages: French, German, Japanese, and Latin what one is more useful towards global trade and makes it easier to trade? With French; the fact that it is the ... other language. So, it would be easier to learn. A lot of our trading comes from Eastern European economies. Most Eastern Europeans speak German. Japanese is one of the hardest languages to master. And since there are fewer students in the classroom it would make it a better learning environment for ... another language ...

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... , space, and causality (131). English speaking people tend to pay more attention to agents when something happens or when something is read, while if you were to be Spanish or Japanese speaking you would pay more attention to the event (Boroditsky132). For example if someone was to break a vase by accident an English speaking person were to still blame the person ... , while a Japanese or Spanish speaking person would blame the vase for braking itself (Boroditsky132). Sometimes the use of different types of language can cause confliction due to assumptions because of the lack ... ...

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... of one of our local community colleges! Apart from English and Spanish, some of the languages that can be heard at Pepperdine University include Farsi (Iran), Russian, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Thai, Tagalong (Philippines), French, Italian, Swedish, German, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Urdu, and Hindi. This means that the barrier of learning English so as to communicate with professors and fellow ... Japan, Italy, and Russia is a very different thing from what the foreign student will encounter in the United States. According to all reports university life in Japan ...

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... purchase many items. One might think that this form of globalization tactic is only used by the United States but actually the Japanese run this same economic strategy against us in Hawaii. A large number of the hotels in Hawaii are Japanese owned and the grunt work is done by the Hawaiian natives. The native Hawaiian's situation is very similar to that of ... ...

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... purchase many items. One might think that this form of globalization tactic is only used by the United States but actually the Japanese run this same economic strategy against us in Hawaii. A large number of the hotels in Hawaii are Japanese owned and the grunt work is done by the Hawaiian natives. The native Hawaiian's situation is very similar to that of ... ...

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... classroom was the teacher. Class size ranked lower. It was the teachers" own lack of training in CLT, also noted by Gilfert & Croker (1997) when referring to the training of Japanese teacher, and deficiencies in spoken English and sociolinguistic competence that impacted most strongly. However, it was clear that teachers did find large classes challenging and Li listes some of the ... . June 1997. [Online] Available: http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Papers/Largeclasses.htm Gilfert, S & Croker, R. (1999). Dialog Performances: Developing effective communication stra...

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... around the world that celebrate the dead instead of mourn them. The Bon festival in Japan has been celebrated for over 500 years, and serves as a way to honor late japanese ancestors. There is no mourning at this festival however, it mainly comprises cheerful dancing and celebrations. The Bon Odori, is a special tradition meant to summon and welcome the dead. Gaijatra ... ...

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... university. I took English classes in some English courses in Kediri-, a city far from my hometown where people from different cities around Indonesia come to learn foreign languages like English, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. I had learned Vocabulary, Grammar, Structure, Public Speaking, Accent, and Pre-TOEFL for about one year. A class that I liked most at that time was American Accent. It was ... ...

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... linguistic skills transfer very readily: for instance the ability to make sense of print. Transfer of skills operates even when writing systems are very dissimilar, as in the case of Japanese and Vietnamese and there is a high level of correlation between children's reading ability in two languages. Transfer can also apply to other cognitive skills, for example to mathematical concepts (Baker ... ...

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... and written English. And I especially have confidence in my spoken English after being an interpreter for several times. In addition to my excellent English skills that I've obtained, I've learned Japanese for a year and a half. And now I"m taking a French learning course in order to enhance my foreign language capabilities. And I"m sure that I can speak good French before long. I"m also very interested ... ...

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... verify this, I am apt to speak Chinese without conscious. It's really embarrassing me. So recently I really respect to any person who can speak several languages. Some people can speak Chinese, Japanese, english, Spanish.. I really look up to them. They are genius for languages. I think this ability is sort of a gift from God. But anyway, I want to say we don't need to ... ...

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... nation exist if its own citizens beat each other because of the color of their skin? When the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor, the United States forced the Japanese-Americans into internment camps just because they looked like the enemy. In this country with so much diversity, discrimination and racism will always play a part in someone's motives. In conclusion ... ...

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... to bow down to them for us to understand. this has never been the way of America, did we bow down to the British in the revolutionary war or the Japanese or Germans in world war 2, no not at all we have a history of making cultures do things our way or no way. This is something that will never stop although ... ...

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... to bow down to them for us to understand. this has never been the way of America, did we bow down to the British in the revolutionary war or the Japanese or Germans in world war 2, no not at all we have a history of making cultures do things our way or no way. This is something that will never stop although ... ...

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... also by the features of their own language. For example, Russian alphabet has almost one half of the letters that are similar to ones in English alphabet. But what about Japanese where there is no even a single letter similar to English one? The same is true about oral speech and pronunciation in the variety of languages, like in Asian languages, they ... ...

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... ) as proper English. In the United State, there is no official national language. That is to say that unlike other countries that have a national language such as Spanish, French, Hindi, Japanese, etc., the United States recognizes English as the language most commonly used for legal or governmental documentation and the language to be used in public education. However, 15%-20% of ... ...

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... his impact. His work is known for its beautiful language, as well as for its understanding of the way people think and feel. Shakespeare is so great writer that every generation discovers new ideas and social problems concerning the relations of man to man in human society in his plays. Thus, Shakespeare's works will never grow old with time....

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... disabilities, but after talking with the teachers, I realized that disabilities were more common than I had thought. The week before, I had met and helped one student named Alyssa who is a first generation student from El Salvador and speaks very little English. She was very shy and held back when I initially met her. The second time I saw Alyssa, she was sitting in a circle ... ...

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... , it dropped into a valley. This valley corresponds to a time period which was the darkest period of Chinese contemporary history, the so called "Cultural Revolution". Before 1966, the older generation of Chinese was obsessed with the dream of communism, they believe in human's power. The whole country went into the condition of "歇斯底里" and caused a mass destroy to both ... ...

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... is over time, to correspond with various stages of an individuallife. This is particularly evident in teen slang. While this kind of slang does not generally hold over from one generation to the next, the teens that used it generally do not carry it into middle age, either. Far out and groovy were perfectly acceptable vocabulary for a young adult in the ... ...

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... language for trade in Latin America, and so on. Furthermore, author insists on thought that the world of the XXI century is likely to be multilingual. As regards the young generation, the author says that global satellite and the Internet provide its cultural experience. Earlier all web sites in the Internet were in English, but now more and more material is ... ...

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Language is very difficult for myself and others like me. My parents and the generation before me had a hard time learning other languages and to communicate well with others. During my twenty years of growing up I have seen many difficult situation and problems that I have ... ...

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... of Indian-English poetry in the pre-independence period. The post-independence scenario emerged different. Admittedly, Indian writing in English is a very urban-India phenomenon. Urban India has seen a whole generation grow up on English as a medium of thought, communication, and expression. A large section of people even thinks in English. It is a language a person has grown up with. It has become ... ...

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... television and radio and in conversation, rather than reading the phrases in books or magazines, the phrases can get corrupted. The internet has played a major role in the way this generation speaks and writes English. Influences such as chat rooms have made shortened English become much more popular and the main reason for this is because it is convenient and quicker ... ...

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