BLOG 6 - My Study Programme
Hello class again, this our sixth entry. This time you will have to write about your experiences studying at the university. You should include photographs or videos or some music in your post.
Here are the instructions:
280 words (pay attention to misspellings, grammar errors and vocabulary). You will also need to write three (3) comments on your classmate’s posts and one (1) on mine (25 words as a minimum). Try to use all the English that you know and what we have learnt in class. DO NOT USE GOOGLE TRANSLATOR TO DO YOUR ENTRY. You will have 48 hours to do it.
My learning experience at college.
Among the many subjects I had to study when in College, there were two that I really enjoyed. First, English language history, the other was English phonetics.
As for the later, I liked when we learnt the different sounds English has. We studied the different sounds for consonants, vowels, diphthongs and exceptions. We had to learn the RP chart and its variations across the English speaking world.
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As for the history of the language, I was really motivated as the professor chose me as his 'class assistant' that was a real honour and a privilege as I was in charge of carrying the World map into the class, which I did proudly.
We had to read several interesting books from the top writers on the topic. Likewise, we had to interview people from different parts of the globe and see how do they get on with accents and perceptions around English.
I interviewed a Singaporean. He explained that there are lots of British influences into their Singaporean English, but they have had developed a peculiar accent, vocabulary and way to name things, mostly influenced by their Chinese mandarin, Malay and Indian Tamil. He commented it was hard for him understand to Americans and Canadians.
Finally, we had some exchange students on our last semester. I had the chance to work with two people. A French girl: Anastasia and a Cameroonian boy: Sekili Naseka. They used English as a second language so, there were many things I learnt from them. For example, the timing for speaking. French people are very Latin-like therefore, the interrupt each other constantly and gesticulate abundantly when interacting. As for Cameroonians, they tend to signalise with their voice tone when is your time for speaking and they do not use their hands and their body language is very reduce when talking.
Hello teacher! Thanks for sharing this experience from which we can learn something out of the ordinary. I find interesting what you mention about your interview with Singaporean, honestly, I didnt't know or imaginae that his accent was influenced by so many languages.
ReplyDeleteWow! This history is amazing to be honest I think is interesting study the english history and study differents sound consonants and it is amazing that you had the opportunity to work with people from another country
ReplyDeleteHi teacher, it seems to me very interesting interview people from different parts of the globe, I dont knew you did that. I think that its a great experiencie, even I would like to do something like this in the future haha.
ReplyDeleteHi Teacher! curiously before yesterday in my class named "fundamental problems of antropology" we talk about phonetic in the context of "linguistic structuralism", It was very incredible be aware of all the inconscient processes that happend in our mind every time we talk, so I think that your classes studying linguistic must have been very interesting.
ReplyDeleteWow! Interacting with people from other countries must have been a very enriching experience for your language learning. I have a hard time imagining how Cameroonians signal with their tone of voice to indicate your time to speak, it must be very interesting.
ReplyDeletehi teacher! i think is very interesting what you tell us, and I was struck by the different influences of the British accent. Also, I have a cousin who is studying English pedagogy and he told me about his phonetics courses.
ReplyDeleteHi Teacher! Thank you for sharing this with us. I feel very interested into your blog because pedagogy is a carreer that I think is very beautiful. I didn't have much knowledge about English pedagogy so it was so interesting.
ReplyDeleteHello teacher, I never thought about all the thing that are involved when you're learning and studying a new language, I never in my life heard about a RP chat, the experience in get to know new people opens your mind more if you are interested in how they speak and how they use their language.
ReplyDeleteHello teacher! Judging by your experience in the college I could think it was very cool! Also, I can notice that you was a very committed student (it’s make me sense because you are a teacher with a lot of vocacy for ) Thank you for share us your experiencie with the French and Cameroonian, I didn’t have idea that English was so varied country by country (and the French gesticulated similar to the Latins)
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