blog 9

This video explains how important it is to a child learning language to hear a large variety of words. For example they show statistics, and it demonstrates how parents play a big role in the development. For example, professional parents children scored the highest. Whereas parents who are on welfare didn't score too high. In the video they say that the words they acquire will affect their IQ scores later in life. They later explain the brain functions, and the gap that children have is also shown in the brain as well. I would definitely learn more about this topic, because it is interesting ad I like learning about how children function.

Blog 8

This article brings up important points for example, the languages that do not have a way to be turned into writing are forgotten. The reason being, because people now use writing to communicate. For example, text email or social media. To me it is unfair that some languages die due to our modernization in technology. I would definitely study more about this topic, and I recommend others as well. If we have a language other than English in our family we should continue using it by teaching our children. It would mean that our children multilingual, and how cool is that?
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/whats-lost-when-a-language-dies/

Blog 7

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/20-examples-of-slang-language.html


This article is about the slang some teenagers use today. Slang has existed for a very long time it just evolve as time passes. It is important for language, because with all of the slang words being used by teenagers and even parents it can make a whole new language. If I were to speak with the modern slang to my 80 year old grandfather he would most likely like at me as if I am speaking a different language. I would definitely research more on this topic, and well we all pretty much do while using social media.

blog 6

http://www.elephantvoices.org/multimedia-resources/elephant-calls-database-contexts.html


This article  is so interesting. I chose it because humans aren't the only ones who make noise to communicate or to speak. Elephants are one example of animals who communicate by sound. I like how they refer to them as drama queens. I would definitely look into this it is very cool. This effects the world, because if animals couldn't communicate how would they live. They wouldn't be able to reproduce either.

Blog 5

http://www.omniglot.com/language/articles/idioms.htm

We have been learning and reading a lot about idioms, but this article explains a different side of them. To us idioms are easy to understand but to those who are learning how to speak English will find it difficult. The article points out that idioms have culture and background information in them. This article relates to what chapter four talks about "idioms". I definitely agree with the article because my mother learned how to speak English at an older age and so she sometimes gets confused with idioms people use. This affects the world, because in every language there are idioms and to be able to be a part of a culture you must understand their language.

Blog #4

         This video is so interesting and of course it relates to language because they sang the sing in like 5 million. I chose this video because it sounds beautiful and even though there is different people singing it, it sounds very similar. There is not much to agree to but, I do agree that language is a big part of music. Watching this video made me want to investigate the different languages frozen was written in. I watched some of it in Spanish, and some messages were translated differently. This topic affects the world, because if a movie was only written in one language it wouldn't be as successful. Subtitles aren't the same either.

Blog 3

I chose this video because it very interesting and short, and that way it does bore people. This video is related to language because it shows the difference pronunciations for different words. The thing I found most interesting about this video is how the other languages sound alike, and then there's German that sounds mean! there is not much

to agree to other than the sound of a German word differ a lot. This makes me want to hear more German, because it sounds so harsh but cool at the same time. This topic affects the world because, it shows how easy it can be to learn a similar language than the one you already know; also hard if you want to learn German.