Reflection 5

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Reflection 5

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Reflection 5

    This chapter mainly talk about the difference between different languages. I found out a language can represent a country’s culture based on the slang people use. It is always interested for me to see the difference between my mother tongue language and other languages that I speak and learning. It is also gave me chance to meet other people from all over the world.

    For me, I found it is hard to learn a new language. In this chapter, it provide how the languages itself is contained which include there are feminine and masculine for certain languages. Or there is certain languages that require people to state clear for “his” or “her.” I personally think, if you know the “tricks” when learning a new language, then it will not be that hard to speak a new language.

    On the video we watched in class about a Kenyan novelist talked about he feel there are negative influence from European colonization in Kenya, which became one of the reason why he wanted to write his novel in his mother tongue language. I understand his feeling, but I still think it is great to still using English to write the novel just like what he used to do in the past. Of course there are people will translate for him, but it is always great for him to write directly in English, which shows the origin of the book that the author really wants to tell.

    To sum up, it is difficult to learn a new language, but it is worth to learn, it will definitely broaden your horizon.