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How would you describe your first language?
‘The first language a human being learns to speak is his native language; he is a native speaker of this language’ (1933: 43). This definition equates a native speaker with a mother tongue speaker.
How do you describe the way a language sounds?
Phonology is often distinguished from phonetics. While phonetics concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds or sign of language, phonology describes the way they function within a given language or across languages to encode meaning.
How would you describe the English language?
The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group. Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca of the world and is the standard language in a wide variety of fields, including computer coding, international business, and higher education.
How is English different from your language?
English is a non-tonal language. Thus it sounds very different from tone languages such Chinese or Vietnamese. In tone languages pitch is used to distinguish word meaning. So a word said with high pitch may have a different meaning than the same word said with a low pitch.
What does English as first language mean?
mother tongue
Definition: The variety of the English language spoken by people who acquired English as their first language or mother tongue. Native Englishes include American English, Australian English, British English, Canadian English, Irish English, New Zealand English, Scottish English, and Welsh English.
What is sound in English?
The 44 English sounds can be divided into two major categories – consonants and vowels. A consonant sound is one in which the air flow is cut off, either partially or completely, when the sound is produced. In contrast, a vowel sound is one in which the air flow is unobstructed when the sound is made.
Where do you think the English language came from?
Britain
English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian languages brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands.
When was the English language first spoken?
5th century
3) The Anglo-Saxon migration Old English was first spoken in the 5th century, and it looks incomprehensible to today’s English-speakers. To give you an idea of just how different it was, the language the Angles brought with them had three genders (masculine, feminine, and neutral).