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ELT 1 Task on Bilingualism, Trilingualism and Multilingualism

This blog is a response to the  task , which was given to us in the paper of ELT 1.   Effective Bilingualism, Trilingualism and Multilingualism enriching the linguist range of an individual It is necessary to be aware with these three phenomena. What is Bilingualism? Bilingualism is the phenomenon of speaking and understanding two languages of equal fluency. What is Trilingualism? Trilingualism is t he condition of being trilingual; the ability to speak three languages of equal fluency. What is Multilingualism?  Multilingualism is the use of more than one language either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Different words and phrases 1.Are you okay?   French:  tu es tu ok Italian: stai bene? German: du bist du ok 2. Good bye   Spanish:  adiós Dutch: doei Russian: do svidaniya 3.How are you Spanish: cómo estás Irish: Conas tá tú Latin: ...

Thinking Activity on "Structuralism"

Structuralism is the offshoot of certain developments in linguistics and anthropology. Saussure’s mode of the synchronic study of language was an attempt to formulate the grammar of a language from a study of parole .  Using the Saussurian linguistic model, Claude Levi-Strauss examined the customs and conventions of some cultures with a view of arriving at the grammar of those cultures.  There are two types of methodology used by critics for study of language. 1.Diachronic 2.Synchronic Diachronic and Synchronicare two different viewpoints in linguistic analysis. A synchronic approach considers a language at a moment in a time without taking its history into account, Synchronic linguistics aims at describing a language at a specific point of time,usually the present. Languge = Langue + Parole In simple way Languge means the entire human potential for speech, Langue means the system that each of us uses to generate discourse which is intelligible ...

Interaction with the French Professors

On 22nd January,2019 we got a chance to meet French Professors in our Daily Schedule. It was a surprising meeting for us.The Professor of Economics department Kishor Joshi introduced us two Professors of University of Lorraine.On that day there was a small interaction session with Prof.Saeed Paivandi and Prof.Fontanini Christine. They talked on various social,political and economical trends of France. They also talked about merging of various small universities as a part of setting world class university,  gender inequality in various education stream and the effect of economical crises upon society.  Apart from it they specially talked about yellow movement. It is a political movement which began in France in 2018 for economical justice. Prof.saeed talked about the violences in some French movement as per his point of view violence is wrong and it never allows to come to the solution of any problems.On the other side Prof.Christne believes that violence...