Wednesday, November 17, 2010

English as the global language

Today it's common sense that English has the most largest influential language in the world. It is required a high English skill to get a better job. Naturally more students desire to study abroad in America. English is becoming already a necessary language instead of the past "cool" language. So I think it's assured in the near future English will regard as the global language. However, not everyone agree with this statement. Some have some doubts about it.
Opponents of English as the global language claim that the share of the world's population that speaks English as a native language is falling. Yet still it is spoken as a native language in 54 countries in 192 countries. In other words, more than 500 million people speak it. Of course to become the global language, the population of speaking that language is important key but I suppose more important thing is its influence. Even if one language is spoken by the most largest population, it makes nothing if it's spoken only in one isolated big country. The matter is how large share and distribution it has. So I guess if the number of the native English speaker is decreasing, it won't destroy the common thought that English as a global language has taken root. Moreover, it might be covered with more developed education of English.
Opponents also maintain that Chinese will take place instead of English in the future. When thinking about population, China has the largest population,1.3 billion. It's overwhelmingly more than the number of native English speakers. In addition to population, China is showing a remarkable development in economic or scientific technique. So in order to get the business opportunity more people start to learn Chinese and think about fig future of China. Economical growth helps needs of its language bigger and bigger. So it couldn't be denied the possibility of Chinise as a global language, however, it has still problem. Firstly, Chinese has really a lots of dialects and it's said even if same Chinese sometimes it's difficult to understand the different dialects at all. Secondly, the country which has the most strongest influence economically, politically, military and culturally is still America. And I think it's difficult for the other country to go over these every genres.
In this way, the arguments about which language should be the global language is still in debatable. But I'm sure a condition of global language is its influence to the world. It means that country has to be top and attract people all the time. And so far it's probably United Stats.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

An easy and a difficult lenguage at the same time.

English has been the universal language for communication in the actual globalized world, for doing business, international politics meetings and diplomacy issues (British magazine). One reason for why English is the universal idiom is because some people says is easy to learn, but on the other hand is difficult to master. It is easy in sense like the personal pronouns for example, are simple to learn than others tongues, because there are few and in some cases does not make difference if the noun is masculine or female. However, can be a bugbear in the way like a gap between pronunciation and spelling, the grammar is particular strange, and the language has a lot of verb conjugation like irregular verbs and regular verbs. Other problem for the English idiom, is it has a lot of version depending of the place where is speaking, and some native speakers have serious problems to understand between they. Also sometimes English is so complex, like if you put together two different words , the meaning can change in a significant form. A consultant for Interbrand John Simmons, put for example the word “set”, which has different meanings depending the context or situation where it used. We have “Set Aside”, “Set Aside”, ‘’Set Up”, ‘’Set Down”, “Set In”, ‘’Set On”, etc… In Hence English can be easy to learn in some aspect, but very difficult to process can be difficult to understand (British Magazine)

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Living at home and living away from home

In my country, the time in life when people leave home depends on several aspects. Usually, people leave home when they go to college in another city or, if they don’t go to college, people only leave home if they have a well paid job or a job in another city. The decision of whether living at home or living away from home depends on the social status and on the incoming that one has. Despite the fact that living with parents or alone depends on whether people are able to afford household expenditures, living alone or with family has both positive and negative sides. When living at home, people don’t need to be responsible for all the household finances, they have emotional support from their family, and they are in a comfortable and well known environment when they have lived all their lives. On the other hand, living away from home gives the opportunity for people to be responsible for themselves and their expenses, they don’t have emotional support all the time, and they are in a new and challenging environment.

The first difference about living at home or away from home is the financial issue. When living with their parents, people are not responsible for all household expenses, they don’t have to pay all the bills and sometimes, they don’t even have to worry about basic things such as food. In contrast, when living alone, people have to manage all the house finance, they need to pay all the bills and be aware of their needs and the house maintenance. That’s one reason why some people chose to be in their parents’ hose, so they don’t have to spend a considerable part of their income with “house stuff”. On the other hand, some people chose to leave home and be financially independent and take care of themselves.

The second contrast about living in home and away from home is the emotional issue. Living at home is emotionally comfortable because people have their families around to support them, help them making decisions, and giving advises. In opposite, living alone give people the opportunity to actually grow emotionally and be able to make their own decisions without the support of their families. Moreover, living alone makes people more independent and self confidents, as they have to decide things by themselves. While some may argue that living at home makes the children dependable and not emotionally mature, other believe that it is good and healthy to be around their family and to get all the support needed to live their grownup lives. In contrast, it can be argued take it’s emotional independence which makes people mature and healthy.

The last difference between living at home and away from home is the environmental issue. Life at home is secure and well known. Furthermore, home is where one has lived their entire life and they are well adapted to the surroundings. On the other hand, the new home can be in a complete different neighborhood or city. Also, it’s not always similar to the home people are used to since the new house is usually smaller, less fancier, and it’s usually located in a less attractive neighborhood them the parents’ home. While those who choose to leave home may think that it’s not a big deal to confront a decrease in their living status, those that choose to stay home might think that the difference in the environment is a major drawback.

In summary, living at home or living away from home is not a difficult decision to make. Furthermore, it’s more a cultural decision than a decision based in pros and cons. Nevertheless, the biggest differences between living at home or away from home are financial responsibility, emotional support, and environmental change.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Living at home and living away from home

Everyone when they're in high school or university have desired to live alone at least once. But living by oneself is a big challenge. And someone spends their lives without living alone That depends on their choice. However, the changing the environment is a good opportunity to grow up one's self because living at home and living away from home is totally different in following points;supper, stable person welcoming home and lifestyle.

When people think about difference between above two, the first big difference is "supper" When person is living at home with family especially with a mother, he doesn't need to care about supper at all. Yet, living alone is not like this. The 3 times supper is the center of life. Thus, when person starts to live by himself with the situation there is no preparation for supper, he'll feel a big empty. It takes a time to cook and he may depend on an instant or unhealthy food or eating out. Worse, in general it costs more than he thought. But in other words, if person doesn't have such opportunity to realize the importance of person who makes a supper, he never realized forever. It seems to be easy to say in words but it could be found really by living alone.

The second difference is whether there is a person to stay at home or not. In case of living at home, someone at least one person says "welcome" However, what about living alone? If it's room share, you have a person who welcomes you but it's not always. Difference between living at home and away from is difference of people you live with. It's nothing unusual but it's a big deal. Family and friends are different even if how good and deep relationship you make with that friends. A family is special because everyone has their own families. So they're stable and always beside of you . Though living alone person has to conquer this lonlyness.

The last difference is habit. It's only in the case of room sharing. Soon after person starts to
room share, he'll force to notice the small but various differences between roommate. Everyone has their own lifestyle depend on their houses. When person lives home, he doesn't have to care as he's been raised up in a family with that house's habit. On the contrary, in case of room sharing, a tiny single difference about attitude of roommate may rub you which If you're in home you never cared. It may be a conflict and it might not easy to solve. But it's what you've experienced and conquered through living away from home. Person could learn to adjust for someone by room sharing.
In conclusion, living at home and living away from home is totally different. Living away from home makes person grow up because he loses what he has when he lives at home;every suppers, stable family and common lifestyle.