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First language that became the second language
I am hispanic. My parents have taught me to speak, read, and write Spanish. It was my first language. I had trouble learning English when I was younger. I did not pronounce English words good. I was not a good speller. I was not good in the English subject. Till, this day I am still not perfect at it. However, as imperfect I am in the English language. In high school, I started noticing how I am losing some of my Spanish speaking skills. I forgot how to write. I forgot how to say certain words. I was paying attention to English, where I was forgetting Spanish.
I told it upon myself to do some research where people can learn Spanish.
This first link shows facts about the Spanish language. It is important to know why you want to start to learn a different language. http://spanish.about.com/od/historyofspanish/a/10_facts_about_spanish.htm
Learning Websites
The link above leads people to a website with different links that show people how to speak certain Spanish and understand the Spanish language better
http://www.spanishlanguagecenter.com/
The link is a place, in San Diego, where they offer classes for children and adults for Spanish. These classes are to help people learn fluent Spanish for those that want to learn.
This is another website, above, to help people find a place to learn Spanish. The pronunciation, writing, and reading.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj6pAX7aAkg The idea of this video is to show that learning a language also takes listening to it. People learn by listening and watching. If a person, is to watch this and say it with the person it is more likely for the person to remember.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF-mO4YgCPI This is a different learning video. It is how different Spanish countries use the language. The video shows people the dialects there are in Central and South America.
Culture
Since I am Salvadorian. I will tell you about my culture. My country is in-between Honduras and Guatemala.
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/elsalvador.html The website has some facts and information about the Salvadorian culture.
To learn the culture of El Salvador, people must know the music that the people hear. Also, know what type of music originates from this country.
http://www.mapsofworld.com/el-salvador/culture/music.html
There is not much on the tradition of dancing in El Salvador, but there are some.
http://estavilloelsalvador.weebly.com/folk-dance-the-dance-of-chapetones.html
Food is what represents a country. The website shows El Salvador national food and what people eat. It also shows the recipes of the food.
http://www.whats4eats.com/central-america/el-salvador-cuisine
These are other links to beautiful sights in El Salvador.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g294475-El_Salvador-Vacations.html
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/el-salvador/sights
Trip to the Museum of Man part 2(:
Paula Soto
Kiara Grant
Mission to the Museum of Man
October 11, 2014
The day started slow. No energy to move. No desire to get out of the uncomfortable bed provided by a college education. However, we found the strength to make it out of bed. The supplement of coffee helped. With our fellow neighbors, we walk ourselves to front of the hall residence. Paula ran (being late, as always). We will fast forward the day until we get to the museum. To our surprise, Balboa Park is humongous. There are different museums. The exciting part was the people that were selling items, drawings of people, and face paintings. The Museum of Man was the first museum we visited–reason for that was because Torture Exhibit was full. The first object we see is a wall full of words. The words are all written in different languages. Noticing all the various languages, it was overwhelming. In the big wall of languages, we discovered languages like: Lithuanian and Galactic Basic Standard( Star Wars language). There were some type of Asian languages, but we did not catch their names. Moving on from the wall, we encountered the section of the Mayans. There were many artifacts of their writing on the walls. Going upstairs, we entered the exhibit of the mummies–Egyptians. We saw their hieroglyphics. Through the rest of the museum we did not find other languages. Well, only Spanish and English. Beyond on that, we only found the languages above.
The second part of our day was spent in the Torture Exhibit. That was intense. It was very interesting. The exhibit showed various instruments of punishment throughout centuries. We are not going into the objects that we saw. Just be aware, that it was thought-provoking. The day turned out to be a good day, by exploring different languages.
Pictures of our day:
Extra Credit!!!!
During my test, I had to really think about how I say certain things. My results were saying that I am from Oxnard and Fresno. To be quite honest, I was a little scared because I thought I spoke like a I came from LA. But that is okay. (: The thing that distinguish me into Oxnard was the word firefly. What a surprise!(: I thought it would be tennis shoes, I was wrong. These are my quiz results.
TEAM WE DON’T KNOW Portfolio
Team We Don’t Know!
Our teammates all have unique strengths and powers. Even if we are different, we complete each other.
Another picture to show how united we are as a team. And how different our powers are.
We fight linguistic crime together!!!!!!
Our Teammates:
Paula
As a member of this group, my strength in linguistics is semantics. I have found the love for those tree diagrams. Also, I am a master in interpreting sentences and finding their ambiguities. I understand this subject much better than the other subjects. I spoke espanol first. So, as a child I had pronunciation problems and grammar problems and spelling problems. Now, I can distinguished the difference between both. I love languages and want to learn more.
Kaitlyn
As another member of this group, my main strength in linguistics is semantics. Along with semantics I have a strong grasp on morphology. Language has always been a large part of my life which is shown through my technical fluency in French.
Kimberly
As an additional member of this group, my strength in linguistics would have to be semantics as well. It does not come easy but it makes more sense to me then everything we have learned so far. I speak both spanish and english and learned a little bit of french in elementary school. I have always loved the idea of learning many different language in order to be able to communicate to a larger pool of people.
Laura
4/27/1996
Rancho Murieta, CA
In linguistic studies,my super strength is in semantics, as illustrated in my mad sentence tree diagramming skills. My middle names are Mental and Grammar. No floating adverb can get by me.
Language Village Movie Night “Heathers”
I had a movie night with my roommate Kim. We watched the movie “Heathers” for two nights. It was a very strange and disturbing movie. The movie was on Netflix. There was some connections to linguistics. Some of the phrases were different from the the phrases we use now. The slang was like ” totally”, “awesome” , “rad”, or phrases like “your such a brownie”. The slang today does not really use these phrases anymore. The movie manipulated the English language in order to make their own know language. For example, the cool, popular high school girls were called Heathers. The film makers changed idea of cliques with calling a girl a heather because it is a title of fame in the film. Some of sentences were like “fuck me gently with a chainsaw” which is basically trying to communicate that the character is offended or insulted. Another word “Salutations” is like a greeting but the character said it sarcastically. The language used in this film made a statement about the cool, popular kids that were given the opportunity to be called something else then every other high school student. It is a statement made to show that people in high school outcast other people that are not considered cool or popular. Overall, the movie was interesting. Even though, the guy almost killed everyone.
Gen s100: Calling home
I called my mom for this assignment. The way she talks is Spanglish. She uses broken English. During this call, I noticed that sometimes when she is speaking, she is using words in past tense rather than present tense. Her accent is a Spanish accent, it isn’t that deep. Since, my mom is from a different country her use of slang is not up to date. However, is understands slang when I use it. She knows “what’s up?” is a substitution for “how are you?’. Little things like that she understands, but not words like: ratchet or turned up. On how she speaks, I really didn’t find anything unique with the words she uses. She really only talks to me in Spanish and uses Spanish slang. However, when she does speak English she tries to pronounce her words more clearly.
A) She uses the word bucket.
B) When I called, she used the phrase “How are you?”
C) She says the word soda, when I asked her.
D) She doesn’t know what “hella” meant.
I really didn’t hear anything different in her English slang. However, with her Spanish slang there are some words that I probably never heard of and had to ask her.
a) The Pool/Pull, they sound different to me. Pool sounds like I an saying “oo” and Pull is more short and more deep, like I am saying “uh”.
b)The words Feel/Fill do not sound the same. The word “Feel” sound softer than “Fill”
c) The three words sound the same to me.
d) Caller/Collar sound the same or very similar.
D5 Creation