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Language come from People
Ralph Waldo Emerson is attributed to saying, “Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.” Living...
Stereotypes
Negative stereotypes can be very misleading and erroneous. • India is home to more than 2,000 different ethnic groups that share the national...
World Englishes
Today, English is considered one of the most pervasive languages in the world. It has a wide range of native speakers and non-native speakers...
Subcultures
All Brazilians, Indians, Malaysians, (place your nationality here) are not the same! The Oxford Dictionary defines an ethnic group as “A community...
Take Action!
Edward Finegan, in his book “Language: Its Structure and Use”, begins to defend the idea that language is more than merely...
To Ask or Not to Ask
In some cultures, if a supervisor asks his/her subordinates their opinion on how to solve a problem, the supervisor would be considered a bad...
Tenacity in Language Learning
Persistence is important to language learning. Sometimes, learning comes easy, and we feel like we can do it all day. At other times, studying a...
Ethnocentrism I
Ethnocentrism is the tendency to view our own culture favorably and another culture negatively. Exposure to another culture many times creates a...
Learn a Second Language!
Geoffrey Willans, a British author and journalist, once said, “You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.”...
