Key Issue 3 – Why Do individual Languages vary Among Places?

1. In what ways do you learn about differences between American and British English?

2. Does your English fall into one of these dialects? Why or why not?

3.Does your Internet search engine show tildes, cedillas, and circumflexes?

4. What is the most widely used language in the same family as Hausa? What religion’s holiest book is written in that language?

6 thoughts on “Key Issue 3 – Why Do individual Languages vary Among Places?”

  1. In what ways do you learn about differences between American and British English?
    in British English downtown is called? city centre. cookie is called biscuit.
    Does your English fall into one of these dialects? Why or why not?
    Yes, I think my English is mixed by those different styles? English. sometimes I use British word but my ponuciations is more likely American.
    What is the most widely used language in the same family as Hausa? What religion’s holiest book is written in that language?
    Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family, and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic languages branch of that family.Language family isAfro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Hausa–Gwandara Hausa. Hausa has long been written using a modified Arabic alphabet called ajami.

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  2. 1. I learn the differences through IELTS class. In the speaking part, the accent is really different. The same goes for British accents in London, Manchester and Glasgow. However, some very general distinctions can be made. Americans usually pronounce every “r” in a word, while the British tend to only pronounce the “r” when it’s the first letter of a word.
    2. I think I don’t have accent while I am speaking. Maybe I have a little bit Chinese accent, but I am trying to change through talking like an American.
    3. No. I think I learn the standard English in Canada. So these are not going to trouble me.
    4. Arabic and the Quran’s holiest book is written in that language. Also, The ancestral language of the Hausa people, one of the largest ethnic groups in Central Africa, Hausa is mostly spoken throughout southern Niger and northern Nigeria. It has developed into a lingua franca across much of Western Africa for purposes of trade.

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  3. 1.It is obvious that different pronunciations and vocabulary. There are hundreds of everyday words that are different. For example, Brits call the front of a car the bonnet, while Americans call it the hood. Americans always say go on vacation, while Brits go on holidays, or hols.
    2.Not one of these dialects, because my pronunciation is a bit confusing now, it ’s hard to say.
    3.Yes, because I find it convenient.
    4.Hausa is a member of the Afroasiatic language family, and is the most widely spoken language within the Chadic languages branch of that family.Arabic and the Quran’s holiest book is written in that language.

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    1. I learned this by watch more videos, The more you listen, the deeper you remember. It is obvious that different pronunciations and vocabulary. There are hundreds of everyday words that are different. For example, Brits call the front of a car the bonnet, while Americans call it the hood. Americans always say go on vacation, while Brits go on holidays, or hols.
    4. the most widely used language in the same family as Hausa are Igbo and Yoruba, Arabic and the Quran’s holiest book is written in that language.

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  5. 1.In elementary school, the teacher would let us read some words that were the same but pronounced differently, such as the word zebra.
    2.I have always studied American English, so it will be more like it.
    3.Yes, because I find it convenient.
    4. The ancestral language of the Hausa people, one of the largest ethnic groups in Central Africa.Hausa is mostly spoken throughout southern Niger and northern Nigeria. Arabic and the Quran’s holiest book is written in that language.

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  6. 1. I have learned English for almost 4 years, at first I am curious about the differences between American English and British English. After I come to Canada, I find out that the biggest difference between those two is the pronunciation. Americans usually pronounce every “r” in a word, while the British tend to only pronounce the “r” when it’s the first letter of a word. Besides, the spelling of some words are also different, for example ‘color’ and ‘colour’.
    2. I think my accent will more likely tend to American English because everything that I learned is in American English, no matter the talking in the daily life or the movie.
    3. Actually, it doesn’t show the tildes, cedillas, and circumflexes and I think it doesn’t bother me.
    4. The Semitic languages are the only branch of the Afro-Asiatic family of languages that is spoken outside of Africa.Some of widely spoken language include Arabic. The Quran’s holiest book is written in that language.

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