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    Family Betty and I are from the same town, same city. We met at the language institute, she was 16 and I was 18, but we didn’t know each other before that. Even though our families were living about a mile apart; we didn’t know each other. Our families knew each other, but not us. Betty went to a girls’ school, I went to a boys’ school, so we didn’t meet until we went to the institute. We were good friends for a year, we had different friends in the school. Then things kind of got in such a way

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    Family Sign Language

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    Family and Our Inevitable Ties Our bodies are instruments; they can be tuned and strummed to express different moods and emotions. In many ways, sign language is just like that, notes and bases. In my family, sign language is a vital aspect of our culture. For my family sign language brings us a unique identity that we live by. Sign language is the glue that unifies our family. My mom is the rock of the family. She was born deaf, and so sign language has been an integral part of our family. Growing

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    Language Separation in Immigrant Families In America, each family usually has a standard language spoken in the household. Communication is easy and mothers can talk with their children and they can connect with them. Some people who have this benefit are unaware that some families do not have this advantage in their homes. Lee Thomas and Linh Cao understand that some families have language change through each generation. Cao herself lived in house where her relatives used several different

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    children acquire language through their environment. From the time of birth, they are exposed to many different phonetics which allow them to shape words and form language. As parents and families utilize specific words as symbols for different concepts and ideas, children learn that they must use these to communicate their desires. This is evident in everyday life, for example those born in different parts of the world, who grow up hearing a predominant language, grow up speaking that language with all

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    Family ties My family has a big influence on the language I use when I am with them, and even when I am not. If I do say so myself my family is rather very funny and we all just have a really great since of humor. A lot of the time we are just joking around or poking fun at one another, in a loving way of course. The relationship I have with my siblings is very important to me that relationship has really helped shape my everyday language. Most of the words or phrase I use in the family setting

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    from other countries, colleagues who speak more than one language, and friends of our children come from various walks of life and far away countries. It is evident that our own children need to be prepared for this global society in which they will travel as young adults sooner than we care to imagine. As a parent of three children and an educator of thousands I live this realization every day! I search for ways in which I can bring to my family not only knowledge of other lands where people look,

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    bilingualism and home language use, parental and community resources, and partnerships between families and schools all have to be considered to provide an opportunity for equal education. The American society has a vast influence on students who are English learners. In this case it is prominent

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    all the Indo Aryan languages, one aspect if quite clear is that they are all derivatives of Sanskrit (Sebeok, 1963) which in turn have their roots set in Greek and Latin and made its way into Indian soil via the Indo-Europeans (Sebeok, 1963). Out of all these Indo Aryan languages, Hindi is considered to be the most progressive, as it is the most analytical followed by Punjabi, Gujarati, Sindhi, Marathi, Bengali, and Oriya (Sebeok, 1963). 2.2.4 Inter-Family Influences No languages can be given the title

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    –Title 1 Tóibín’s haunting use of language and dialogue in his collection of short stories, “The Empty Family” leaves a lasting impact on the reader. Language and dialogue are the most important tools of any writer when writing, as they influence a reader’s interpretation of themes and characters. Tóibín effectively makes his words have an impact on the reader and he achieves this by stimulating an emotional response to the things he says in his work, i.e., his language and dialogue. Filled with the

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    anthropologists are studying a culture, they usually look at the language first; language can tell us a lot about a group of people such as their beliefs, values, and customs. Researchers oftentimes find both, variations and similarities, between two geographically related (or even non-related) societies. For example, there are colors, shades, and hues that are visible to some cultures but not to others because the words for them do not exists in the language of that culture. Although many concepts are not found

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