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    Cambridge Dictionary states that language is “a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar, or the system of communication used by people in a particular country or type of work”. With particular definition, we can clearly observe that the system of language is made up from the existence of words that brings something meaningful regardless the context, and the construction of the sentences based on the collected words following the systematic grammatical rules which eventually

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    English language is the most widely used language in the whole world and it is considered as the “language of the sea” so consequently, we aspiring seafarers should learn how to communicate properly using the English language. In MAAP, we are obligated to speak in English at all times so we could practice our English skills every day; which is very clever because once we go on board, we will work with different persons with different races which might make communication very hard especially if we

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    Introduction Our native language consists of a set of phonemes that we learn to discriminate during language acquisition. Infants are born with perceptual sensitivity for phonemes outside of their parents’ native language, which is a result of the fact that they have not yet practiced nor learned the phonetic rules of their language. These feature detectors for phonemes that are not used during language development will atrophy and the native phoneme feature detectors are retained (Eimas, 1975).

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    Language is one of the many things covered in the book as the mothers in the book tend to have a language barrier. The mothers started off in a country where they didn’t speak the common language. One of the mothers, Lindo Jong, says that, “…I tried to get a job as a salesgirl, but you had to know English for that.” She says this as she tries to find a job in a country she had recently moved to. This language barrier continues even when she finds a job, “…She picked up one of the strips of paper

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    the word “language” is communication, isn't it? However language is much more than just communication. Language is what makes you different from other human beings. Thanks to it, you can communicate with others, express who you are, your ideas, feelings, thoughts, discomforts, etc. With language you can even change the world, you can hurt a person or you can love a person. Language has many more aspects than what you might think, some of them are: language choice, code switching, language in interaction

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    Egypt’s Language “For almost thirteen centuries Arabic has been the language of Egypt” (Home). Before the invasion in AD 639, Coptic, which originated from ancient Egypt, was the language for everyday and religious life for the majority of the population. However, by the 12th century Coptic was replaced with the Arabic language. But, the Coptic orthodox church still used te language even after it was replaced. Arabic has become the language of both the Egyptian christian and muslim. The written

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    standardization of the English language began in the seventeenth century. With the help of text like the “English Keyword” and “The Place of World Englishes in Composition: Pluralization Continued” by author A. Suresh Canagarajah as well as "Nah, We Straight": An Argument Against Code Switching by author Vershawn Ashanti Young and Paul Matsuda’s text “Threshold Concept 4.6” it is the goal of this essay to show through these texts the implication of this standardization of language and the effects that it

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    What Is A Language?

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    What is a language? My survey reveals to me that it is words we speak, the sounds we make, the symbols we compose, or now and then even just the way we pass on messages. I like to think that a language is a portrayal of our existence. A medium for passing on data that has been seen by a man, to someone else is what a language is. Without a doubt, it consists of words, images and sounds, yet it is a considerably more extensive idea than simply those. Any of my readers can tell me how many types of

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    Power Of Language

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    The power and idea of language can be express in so many different forms like the ability to communicate with other people. But language as a farther meaning than just communicating, language as the power of understanding thoughts and the feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, in the tone nation of sounds, gesture or even symbols and the message it can send to people. With the aid of these essays “By Any Other Names” written by Santha Rama Rau, “The language of Oppression” by Bosumajian

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    Language Language is essential; language is what we use to communicate among others. It is something that joins us just as strongly as it separates us. There are many different “languages” in the world but really they are all bound by certain rules, they all have a format that they follow, all of them have, nouns, verbs, tenses, and adjectives. Language is almost like a math, the point of it is that when you speak, you try to reach a conclusion with a different person, and in math you use equations

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