About me Hello :) My name is Cathy Jung (Seo yeon) It is my first year at Raha, and lived in Abu dhabi for 2 and a half year. My hobby is drawing and I want to be a graphic designer in the movies. My goal is to get in to my "dream" institute with a scholarship. About Language I decided to be in Lang&Lit because I believe that language has great significance in my life and that it will affect greatly in my future careers as well. In 21st century, everyone is becoming international. The first step of becoming a successful "international" person is to know the "international language"-English. Without knowing the language, one would not be able to communicate one's own thoughts and feelings. For instance, when I was 3, I went to United States. Obviously, I did not have any kind of knowledge with English. At preschool I always felt left out since I could not communicate- it took me years of studying. Thank you for reading and I inc...
Hello and good evening It is a great honor to have the opportunity to be invited to speak for one of the greatest community of all times. I want to congratulate the great British to success in breaking the boundaries between countries and spreading our great culture. On the other hand, the African tribes are now falling into altercations and frays on deciding which culture is 'real' for them and which one they should follow. It is common for us to believe that following and preserving a 'real' culture is important; I mean who doesn't think that? Well, today, I want to share this one particular world that you might have, or, by high chance, not heard of. This world is a world where it is 'real' in every aspect. This world is where people believe the existence is a dual but interrelated phenomenon. A world where people believe death is not the end. A world where all forces interact to cause "good". A world where people believe more than one god. ...
What is the value of preserving indigenous language? Consider language as a living species. If an language dies out - extinction- what might be the cause of it? Probably that species was consumed by the predator tongue. The economic power, military power, and culture prestige decides whether or not the language will survive. When one species of animal dies out, it has the power to threaten the whole ecosystem and can even cause the world to diminish- whether or not that species was giant or small. This is the same for indigenous language - extinction of one language has great powers. As New Yorker Article says, " the loss of languages passed down for millennia, along with their unique arts and cosmologies, may have consequences that won’t be understood until it is too late to reverse them.” Indigenous ideas about certain topics have always been an important topic- especially the language. The language acts an important role when defining a culture. In other words, as language...
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