AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: word order and the mind. A new study suggests that people naturally gesture in the order of subject-object-verb, regardless of the rules of their spoken language. Susan Goldin-Mea...
Kara: So, Lupe, in your family setting, when you guys are having family get-togethers, you have a large family, do you normally speak English or Spanish or is it a mix, or how does it all work out at a party? Lupe: It's definitely a big mix, and as s...
Todd: OK, Deanne, so you are a translator? Deanne: Interpreter. Todd: Interpreter. Deanne: Yeah. Todd: What's the difference between a translator and an interpreter? Deanne: The interpreter serves as a medium between two different people and it's don...
Todd: Nitya, in the U.S. we have many different parts of the country and people are very different. What about India? Are the people very different in different regions? Nitya: Yeah, I like, I think that in India the different parts, they have totall...
Ben: It helps in that I have insight to how somebody learning a foreign language needs things explained because I've learned 4 myself. However in some ways it doesn't help because the Japanese learner, the Japanese sort of mind, and how they learn la...
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Section 39 Languages Language is one of the major forms of communication between people. Speech and writing are the main components of a language. By introducing grammar into language, we make it easi...
Today, more people than ever before are speaking to each other through satellite television, cellular telephones and computers. This means that people from different parts of the world need to be able...