english speaking

by Sameea Kamal The 2020 census confirms California's status as one of the most diverse states in the country - second only to Hawaii, despite a likely undercount of Latino and black voters. About 40% of Californians speak a language…

Of the more than 250 original languages ​​and over 750 dialects spoken by First Nations people before 1788, only 12 are learned by children today. However, widely spoken contact languages ​​– creoles and dialects – have emerged. An…

My second Black History Month article dwells on the intriguing but not surprising historical connection between the pidgin English spoken in West Africa (such as Nigerian pidgin English and Cameroonian pidgin English) and…

As the first Swedish actress in 52 years to be nominated for a BAFTA award, Noomi Rapace managed to excel in the entertainment industry. Landed her first internationally recognized role in 2009 in the film The girl with the dragon tattoo,…

Do you know what a "dunny" is? How about "brekky, buddy?"If you're a North American parent, chances are at least two of these words were foreign to you a few years ago, but are now essential to the everyday family lexicon.And it's all due…

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Over 100 Belmond-Klemme students participate in the district's English Language Learners program.…

The Facebook Papers include tens of thousands of internal documents from social media giant Facebook, Inc. (FB) that were shared with the Wall Street Journal by former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen. These documents became…

The ABC has consulted with the NSW government regularly on how best to support the community as we navigate the recent epidemic and work to reopen the state and the economy.During the initial phase, the partnership provided the Sydney…

By John McWhorter, Ph.D., Columbia University We know that there are about 6,000 languages ​​and that they keep changing, and that this change results in the production of dialects. We also know…

In her first book How You Say It, UChicago psychologist Katherine D. Kinzler explores how we interpret language to divide the world into social groups. In a new book, Professor Katherine D. Kinzler argues that the way you speak reflects…

Shana Poplack, Emeritus University Professor | Canada Research Chair in Linguistics | Founding Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory, University of Ottawa/L'Université d'Ottawa African-American vernacular English is an…

After students at a California high school were recently asked to 'translate' Black English sentences into Standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: 'The last thing they need - our children - is to be forced…

One might well assume that Noah Webster (1758-1843), America's most famous lexicographer, was a cloistered pedant or silent scholar who pored over books and manuscripts. In fact, he became, over his long life, a quarrelsome, legalistic,…

Learning a language certainly has many advantages. By allowing us to interact with people from different cultures and backgrounds, it makes us more insightful and enriches our life experience. If you want to learn English and have a…

My grammar checker and I are on break. Due to irreconcilable differences, we are no longer on good terms. It all started when he started putting commas before each "who". Despite all the angry underlining, "it's a habit that seems…

CURRICULUM REVISIONS: Current guidelines state that students must know 7,000 words, but students in regular schools will…