When I discovered there was a language requirement for college I was nervous because I had such a hard time in high school learning a foreign language. ... Gallaudet then returned a year later with a deaf teacher, Laurent Clerc, a student at the National Institute for the Deaf in Paris. ... Compound words are another part of all languages. ... The last two weeks I have understood completely why American Sign Language is a true language. Now I feel that I was able to learn ASL, not because it was not a true language, but because it is a very visual language. ...

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However, is the "national identity" or "national character" still the right perspective to have when analyzing intercultural communication nowadays? ... The "national identity" or "national character" is getting more and more vague and as W. ... As a result, people need different languages to communicate. Here, different languages do not necessarily mean national or ethnic languages like English and Chinese, but refer to the different discourse systems one person uses to communicate with different people. ... Many people learn English as a second languag...

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This can also be useful when studying how spoken and written language have become different over time and separated, in order to identify themselves as two very different modes of language. ... Standard English in written language has also has certain rules that need to be adhered to as they have not given into the popular ideologies of social change; making the language of writing standardize as more formal and similar across most countries in which English is the first language. ... Spoken Language is similar to written language as there are certain sounds obeyed such as the '-sh&#x...

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