Author: nicholas solis (Page 4 of 5)

My experience with English was been pretty good but had some struggles learning It, since a very young age I was traveling to much and learning how to properly speak to languages at the same time could be very hard, since I was very young I use to live in a different country which is Ecuador were they speak Spanish so since a young age I was speaking Spanish even thought I was born in the U.S after I was six I decided to move back to the U.S and that’s were I was having some struggles with English since all I knew mostly was Spanish most of the time, but since I was very young It was easier for me to learn English quickly, but then I had to move back to Ecuador repeating the same process of learning a new language again, but when I came back to the U.S for longer I realized that I had to step up my game since I was staying here for good so I started analyzing peoples accent and way to speak for me to adapt to my surroundings and started to figure out about the New York accent, Florida accent and how many cities had their own accent and slang language in the text three ways to speak I saw she mentioned about the different types of English there could be in the first page of the text. “Because the English language is a multifaceted oration Subject to indefinite transformation Now you may think that it is ignorant to speak broken English But I’m here to tell you that even “articulate” Americans sound foolish to the British”, this part the text shows how English is a very diverse English and depending on where you live it might be different or altered  which shows how complex it was for me to lean English, but overall thanks to the people I had around me I was able to learn the new York slang and how to speak proper English and Im thankful for those people that helped me.

Q1(page 1): ” I spend a great deal of my time thinking about the power of language the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. Language is the tool of my trade. ”

A1:I’ve sometimes myself take some time and realize how powerful languages really are like nowadays languages could even help you get a job, help you communicate with more people, and how knowing different languages could open doors that people that just know one language don’t.

Q2(page 1):”The talk was going along well enough, until I remembered one major difference that made the whole talk sound wrong. My mother was in the room. And it was perhaps the first time she had heard me give a lengthy speech, using the kind of English I have never used with her.”

A2:I feel identified with this quote because I’ve experienced a same type of scenario with my mother while speaking In Spanish, I was speaking in Spanish with a group of friends that were from Spain and had an accent and talk, and when I went up to talk to my mom my Spain accent was still on and she asked why I was speaking to her like that since people from our country has a different accent and way to speak and felt very disoriented since I was trying to switch accents on the spot.

Q3(page 1):”She reads the Forbes report, listens to Wall Street week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine’s books with ease–all kinds of things I can’t begin to understand. Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese.”

A3:This quote reflects on new comers and people from outside the country that are learning English, because from what I’ve seen they seem to understand English when you speak to them or when they read an article in English but struggle to speak the language or they are speaking it properly, but can’t be understandable since they have a heavy accent when they speak English and when I see that they are making errors I go help them and correct them and help them improve.

Q4(page 4):”I wanted to capture what language ability tests can never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.”

A4:this small portion of the article is a strong message because, I personally seen people that truly understand English and could write and read it but some things like accent or speaking challenges are the ones that mess them up making them miss out many important opportunities which is very unfair because some people just judge their English but they way they speak but not by how they try to display their message and emotions