Keywords: Journalism, Media, Mother-Tongue, Second Language, LinguaFranca, Contrastive Analysis. IntroductionThe importance in communication has given rise to a new, international language, that is, International English. English has now become an accepted form of communication in India. The dependence...
English is their mother tongue.An equal number of people learn English as a second I anguage.T hese people will perhaps speak the I anguage of their own country at home with th eir family,but the language of the government,school,newspapers and TV is English.T his si tuation is found ...
English language,member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (seeGermanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. It is the mother tongue of about 60 mill...
In today's worldEnglishhas the reputation of being an international language. English has the highest number of speakers across the globe after the mandarin language. WhereasHindiis the mother tongue of more than 400 million speakers home to Indian and dispersed in the entire world. So, in toda...
Hindi is a Prominent Language Hindi is the mother tongue of millions of people in India, where many people feel comfortable to learn English from Hindi. Research shows that more than 42 crore people in India have listedHindias their mother tongue, according to Times of India. This means more...
languages, it is difficult to choose a single national language, as mother tongue speakers of that language would automatically enjoy greater social status and have easier access to positions of power and influence.Despite continued pressure from nationalists, English remains at the heart of Indian ...
English is the native mother-tongue of only Britain, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a handful of Caribbean countries. But in 57 countries (including Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Philippines, Fiji, Vanuatu, etc), English is either as its...
However, English is spoken all over the world. It is the main language in over 60 countries, including India, Singa-pore and many of the Caribbean and Pacific islands. In these places English is often a second language.English is also an international language in many other countries, like ...
Science as a career attracts people from across the world. But whether researchers come from Beijing, Berlin or Buenos Aires, they have to express most of their ideas and findings in English. Having a dominant language can streamline the process of science, but it also creates extra barriers ...
【题目】阅读下面短文,在空格处填入1个适当的词或括号内单词的正确形式填空.T h e history of th e Englishlanguag e really started wi th th e arrival of two Germanic tribes inth e fifth cen tury "th e Angles and th e Sazons", which is 41Old English is also called Anglo-Sazon. Sinc ...