quarta-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2010

This blog was created by four students in the discipline of English.
It's normal to have some mistakes as it was not corrected by a teacher.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Thank you.

Conclusion

Learning new languages beyond to our language, is essential . Already in just enough to know the language, it is essential to learn and to speak other languages in order to communicate with people from others countries.Each turn more people choose to learn more than one language, and help greatly in employment opportunities, increase our level of culture is always very good.

Joana Mota nº15

My conclusion

I liked to make this work in spite of I have encountered some dificults in translating the texts.
On the other hand, found out many things about Germany and will hope to do more work's like that.
The idea of the blog was very interesting.


(onesandra nº21)

MY CONCLUSION!!!



(onesandra nº21)

Did you know that...?

- The colors of the flag, adopted in the nineteenth century have their origin in uniforms usdos by soldiers of the army free of Lutzen in the seventeenth century;
-Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) formulated the laws which describe the motion of the planets;
- Johannes Gutenberg (1397-1468) invented the printing press on both sides of paper;
- The painter and art theorist Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) is the best representative of the German Renaissance;
- The composer and organist Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was a master of Baroque music;




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- Richard Wagner (1813-1883) revolutionized opera with works such as Tristan and Isolde, Tannhauser and Parsifal ";

-Jakob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) Grimm wrote, among other tales, "Cinderella";

A little more about Germany

The federal republic of Germany has a common border with nine countries of the old world.
It is the third industrial power in the world and the locomotive of the European economy, despite the long social and economic crisis resulting from the unification of the FRG and the GDR in 1989.
The population density is 230.8 inhabit. /km2, one of the highest in Europe. Most of Germans (87.7%), living in major cities such as Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Essen and Dortmund.
Germany has some of the most important companies in the world. Fourteen of them are on the list of top hundred companies worldwide, including 9 of the industrial sector.
Germany is part, since May 1998, the 15 European Union countries that adopted the euro as currency.
He is a member of the G-8, the Group of Seven major industrialized nations of the world.

(Onesandra nº21)




The release of the Italian Language


There are a total  of 80-110 million people who speak Italian.
In 1861, only 2.5% of the Italian population communicate in Italian. 10% understand the language. Most of the population, didn't have  knowledge of the language. The Italian  language became known only in the last fifty years, with the increasing literacy of the Italian population and development of technology. Television contributed to the dissemination of Italian language. In the 50's, 18% of the population communicates in the official language, 18% speaks both dialect and Italian and 64% only speak dialect. Currently, 44% of the Italian population uses only Italian, 51% speaks Italian and dialect and only 5% only speak dialect. For many Italians, speaking dialect is synonymous with ignorance and lack of education. Italian is considered the language of learning and well-educated population, while the dialects are used mainly in rural areas and to communicate between family members.





Joana Mota nº15


Text: (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADngua_italiana)
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Main Italian-speaking regions


 
The Italian spread of many countries.


The Italian  language spreaded to several regions of Western Europe. It is spoken in:
• Italia
• Switzerland
• Vatican
• Slovenia
• Croatia
• Albania

And within the communities of immigrant descent:
• Brazil
• Argentina
• Australia
• France
• Germany
• Mexico
• United States of America
Luxembourg
• Venezuela

 Italian is the official language in the following countries:
• Italy
• Switzerland
• Vatican
• Slovenia
• Croatia

 Joana Mota nº15

The Conclusion

In my work I had some problems finding information, but in the end I came to learn much more than was expected. I hope all readers of this blog (members of the class) to learn as much as I learned.


(Joana Guimarães nº12)

The Mandarim

Mandarin (traditional Chinese: 官 话; simplified Chinese: 官 话; pinyin: Guanhua, literally "speech of officials", or even traditional Chinese: 北方 话, Simplified Chinese: 北方 话, pinyin Běifānghuà, dialects of the north ") is the name given to a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.When it is considered a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, the Mandarin has more speakers than any other language.

In linguistics, the term Mandarin can refer to either of two distinct concepts:
  • Chinese paddern;
  • Mamdarim Paddren;
Like all other variants of Chinese, there are several controversies about the Mandarin should be considered a language or a dialect.





Fontes:

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The Hindi

In the broadest sense of the word, "Hindi" refers to the Hindi languages, a culturally defined part of a dialect continuum that covers the "Hindi belt" of northern India. It includes Bhojpuri, an important language not only of India but, due to 19th and 20th century migrations, of Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Mauritius, where it is called Hindi or Hindustani; and Awadhi, a medieval literary standard in India and the Hindi of Fiji.

The Pronouns:

The Hindi pronouns has seven, three for the second person, two for the third person, but does not specify whether it is singular or plural.

Hindi English
मैं (main)-I
आप (aap) - you (formal)
तॅम (tum) - you
तॅ (tuu) - you (very informal)
येह / वह (yeh / woh) - he, she, they, they
हॅम (ham) - we

2. Hindi - 565 million - India, north and central regions.









(Joana Guimarães nº12)

segunda-feira, 29 de novembro de 2010

The Italian

The origin of Italian

The Italian language is derived from the popular Latin, spoken by the people from the western provinces of the Roman Empire. The popular Latin predominated until the ninth century, then they began to speak Italian, a Romance language.
In the nineteenth century with the unification of smaller states in the peninsula whose common link is language,  Italian is approved as the official language, it can not be considered as "pure" latin popular  because it  has influence of the region Tuscany.


Joana Mota nº15

 




My conclusion

To make this work I confess that I had some trouble finding information.After all it was interesting to do this work because only then is that we realize that we live in a fully globalized world, and that going forward there will be no difference from one country to another without their geographical characteristics.



(Inês Correia  nº8)

quarta-feira, 24 de novembro de 2010




These are some videos about Globalization.



Inês Correia nº8

Globalization

Today more than learning a language is essentially the planet is so globalized that from now on will be hard to have a successful career or succeed in adapting to a society, so does the importance of learning another language is indisputable.Before understanding how countries have adapted to the globalization process, it is necessary to define globalization. There is no consensus on a narrow concept of what is globalization and its origin.





Inês Correia nº8

The german language

German is the 10th most spoken language in the world.It has 98 million speakers which corresponds to 1.7% of world population.It is the language spoken in Germany, Austria, Lichtenstein and Switzerland.


Onesandra Bernardo nº21

The French language

The French  is one of the major languages of the world, and one of the most important romanic languages, with a number of followers just below the Spanish and Portuguese. In 1999, French was the sixth most spoken language around the world, used by about 110 million people as their mother tongue and 210 million if we include those who speak a second language.


The French is the first language of main countries:

-France
-Bélgic
-Luxembourg
-Switzerland



Inês Correia nº8











The 10 most spoken languages in the world



My job will be on the 10 most spoken languages in the world, I speak on
Specific Mandarin and Hindi. After making one last post will be a conclusion
and will work on what I think of both languages and how
development work.

According to the last edition of "The Ethnologue: languages of the
world ", the number of languages spoken in the world is 6912. Here are ten
most spoken first languages in the world:

1. Mandarin - 1051 million - China, Malaysia and Taiwan

2. Hindi - 565 million - India, north and central regions.

3. English - 545 million - U.S., UK, parts of Oceania.

4. Spanish - 450 million - Spain and the Americas.

5. Arabic - 246 million - the Middle East, Arabia, North Africa.

6. Portuguese - 218 million - Brazil, Portugal, Angola.

7. Bengali - 171 million - Bangladesh, northeast India.

8. Russian - 145 million - Russia and Central Asia.

9. French - 130 million - France, Canada, West and Central Africa.

10. Japanese - 127 million – Japan


Joana Guimarães nº12