January 22, 2008

Languages

I have been fascinated with languages this semester ever since my 232-231 fiasco in Spanish. Although now being in 231 I understand everything the teacher is saying, today I began to think about learning other languages.

Being from the United States, we obviously realize that our english is much different than proper english, or that that we imagine to be spoken in England.

Mostly referring to: the accent.

Then I began to think, if a native speaker of a language other than english went to England, or was taught by someone who was from England, would their newly acquired english be spoken with an accent?

Most of the time when someone is learning spanish from a Spaniard, they start to develop the 'theta' that Spaniards use, as opposed to Mexicans, Dominicans, etc.  

So could this be true for people learning english?

January 20, 2008

Not according to plan

I'm finding the world has not been as inspirational as I had hoped. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, or maybe I'm looking to hard?