Journal Entry # 9

[Maria Eugenia Riande]

Cultural competence is very important when learning a new language because it shows that as interested in lathering a new language one can also interact with the people in the given cultural as well. This is very important because this means that the person is receptive to both the language and culture, not having cultural competence would restrain in the learning of such language because in my opinion that language is culture. To be able to learn a new language one needs to immerse in the culture. From this weeks reading I found the chapter on dialects very interesting because its important to know that even though like in latin american every country speaks spanish each region is identified by its own dialect which reflects social and geographical backgrounds. Language also refers to social issues where the way someone speaks may be different from the dialect use by someone from a lower class even though they are from the same country. Language is a way to preserve and reflect ones identity and background. The varieties that are show in language are very important to the learning of the language but it also allows for an individual learning a new language to form their own identity and contributing in their own way to the language.