onsdag 7. januar 2015

Varieties of English

Oral English Presentation
English is the most spoken language all around the globe. English is spoken in almost every single corner of the globe. A lot of people are speaking English as their native language, But the reason why English is so widely spoken is because there are so many people speaking English as their second and third language. English is today the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin and Spanish. Mandarin is a type of Chinese; which almost every person in china is speaking. However, if we combine both native speakers, and non-native speakers, English is probably the most commonly spoken language in the world. With so many people all around the world speaking English, different varieties will develop. Your way of speaking English depends on culture and what language you grew up with.

English in India:
English in India has a status of assistant language, however English is the most important language in India. After Hindi, English is the most commonly spoken language in India, and it is probably the most read and written language as well. Indians who know English, will always try to prove that they know English. English symbolizes in Indians minds; better education, better culture and higher intellect.
However, I think some of the people from India, which have Hindi as their mother tongue and learned English as their second language, speaks in a very funny way. It’s I bit hard to explain. So I found this video of an job-interview with an Indian guy. Just listen to the way he talks.

video:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNyHP_IHO7I

The difference between English and Russian:
English and Russian are very different in important aspect, like their grammar system significant variations. English has a fairly fixed word order, meaning is expressed through the addition of words and movement of words within limited boundaries.
Russia on the other hand, conveys meaning largely through changes in the composition of words.

Their alphabets:
Russian is written using the Cyrillic alphabet, some of those letters are similar to the letters in the Latin alphabet used by English.
While we used the letters as simple as ABC, but it’s harder for Russians to learn what seems easy for us.
Russian is largely phonetic language. This means that a word’s pronunciation can be predicted from its spelling. And its spelling from pronunciation. This is certainly not the case in English, and usually causes Russian people serious difficulty and frustration to learn English.

the differences between English and German

German is spoken by about 95 million people all around the world, and is the official language of Germany, Austria and parts of Switzerland. English and German both belong to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. Because they are so closely related, they share many features. Furthermore, the English language is pervasive in German media and popular culture. It is not surprising, therefore, that many Germans learn English quickly and easily. However, there are a number of aspects of German that commonly interfere with the correct production of English.
Here is an example: the /th/ sound as in words like the, and thing does not exist in German, and many speakers have problems producing such words correctly. 

1 kommentar:

  1. Interesting - still, more examples like in the end would add a plus to the content.
    There are some language issues that we'll talk about.

    SvarSlett