Language+Acquision

 Language acquisition

· ** First language - mother tongue - native language - arterial language. ** The first language is the language we speak at home. We communicate in this, and we learn our children this language at first. In most countries there is only one first language. But in some countries there is 2 first languages. Usually the first language is the language that the person feels most comfortable speaking but this might not always be the case.



This an indian guy speaking his secound language

· ** Secondary language ** The language you learn afterwards your first language is called secondary language. But sometimes the secondary language is more spoken than the first language. The secondary language can be the dominate language, because some people are more comfortable speaking their secondary language rather than their first language. The secondary language is often most used by immigrants. When you immigrate to another country, and you are still a child, it happens that you forget your first language and you naturally start to speak the secondary language. If you immigrate from England to Denmark you'll have to speak danish when you are going outside your door. In this case Danish would be your secondary language but you might speak danish the most.

· ** Foreign language ** The foreign language is the language you learn in school. In our case, it is everything else but Danish and English. It's actually not until recently that the US have increased their instruction in foreign languages around the elementary schools. The US thought it is necessary for the youth to learn how to communicate with other countries. While they increased their instruction in foreign languages they also get an insight in the different cultures. Especially during the world war 2 the foreign languages was heavily needed. It gave complications when they confronted possibly enemies, they had to communicate to avoid unnecessary deaths. Europe was the first place that nearly all the students learned at least one foreign language but this you could only say about the youth. Recent studies showed that only 10% of English workers could speak a foreign language, this is also causing minor communication problems today.

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This is how an English born man would speak English.

media type="youtube" key="eWVIObGHxzs?fs=1" height="385" width="480" This is how an indian man would speak his English as his second language.