In researching this article, I was particularly fascinated to learn that interpreting body language is a skill that ancient humans possessed, probably long before spoken language even existed. It was also interesting to look at the art of manipulating body language to deliberately convey an ...
As Marianne Celce-Murcia maintained that noticing and persuasive evidences show that no-grammar teaching will lead to the produce of clumsy and impropriate foreign languages (4). Research also shows that grammar teaching is essential for language teaching. In respect of in-put theory, grammar teachi...
We have instant noodle, instant porridge, and instant dinner even instant marriage. But we should not believe that there is an instant language-learning method existed! We should get our mind and set down to learning English step by step. I think from very beginning that the course of master...
Have you ever wondered how to curse in another language? These how-to videos will teach you much more than that. Learn basic speaking and comprehension skills in many languages, including Sign, French, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, English/ESL, German
Think of all the words that have existed in the past but are no longer used: "spats", "isinglass", "antidisestablishmentarianism", "fro". We cannot say that these words no longer "exist" but only that they are no longer used. We are free to begin using them any time we wish ...
Elsewhere in the U.S., the disjunction between more urban mentalities with more rural thinking persist, as existed prior to the U.S. Civil War, which was partially due to the economic and cultural disconnect between the more industrial Northern states and the more agrarian Southern ones (...
On its face, code-switching is a straight-forward communicative behavior: two or more people speak and, when they speak, they use two or more languages. This would be enough of a definition to disentangle Fronglish from Spanglish, if there existed a reliable definition for the concept “a ...
Other Languages In "Creole for Dummies" viewers are taught short phrases intended to help out if speaking to a native of Haiti or visiting the country. In this case, many of the phrases are related to soccer, as a soccer player is your teacher. ...
First, although Whorf asserted an objective difference between Eskimo and English snow vocabularies, his comparative linguistic data were subjective and unfalsifiable: it is a matter of opinion whether any cross-linguistic difference in the number of snow words existed. As Geoffrey Pullum (1991) ...
As familiar as it may look at first glance, there are still tons of subtle changes in Windows 10. Many options that existed in past versions have been moved, and virtually every system menu received at least a small visual makeover.