Journal entry #8


I really like this weeks reading because I could personally relate to the topic of language learning and culture as a bilingual person. At the same time it made me realize that I do know about the relationship between language and culture and its importance I just never took the time to analyze it until now. Learning the relation between language and culture is very important because learning a language is ultimately a cultural learning. By using language we maintain cultural ties, for example when I first came to school in the us my first friends were Spanish speakers because it helped me maintain my cultural ties from back home while in the US. It was also a way to find a birth connection with other people here. As times go by language clearly changes, I believe most of us wont notice because we are so involved in the language but we can notice that as some languages like Spanish and Chinese expand other languages other languages start to die like Latin. One way to tell how language changes might be to look closely at the way your mother speaks in comparison to the slang one speaks with their friends, this makes it very hard to communicate with one another, in my experience this happened to me when I came to college were although I have a few Spanish speaking friends I speak English more than Spanish as a way to integrate in the UR society which has made me lose a little my home language.

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