Blog#9 - Language and the brain

Before the game start, they have information below about how language and age works for female and male and which side of the brain is use. How language is acquire and the effort our brain takes. They also gives some way to improved language. I hope you have fun playing the game enjoy. http://www.freebrainagegames.com/games/language_anagrams.php

Blog#8 Meet the Last Speaker of a Dying Language

This short Documentary talk about Marie Wilcox the last speaker of Wukchumni a Native American language. She was able to complete a dictionary from her native language took her 7 years to completed. Her grandson was able to communicate with her and help with the dictionary and her daughter also help her in the process. Later after the dictionary was finish they were able to teach other people the language, and brought more people to speak and learn the language. The video was very inspiring, seen , and hearing how much effort she place in order to maintain her native language.
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/short-film-showcase/meet-the-last-speaker-of-a-dying-language

Blog# 7 - History of American Slang

I finally found the opportunity to post a video, it very interesting. The video will send you back in history to show the viewers how slang progress and also become less commonly use in the future. The also show the point of view of music , and artist been an influence to the slang word. here the link hope you enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGUg_w7FKqM

Blog#6 English Phonetics exercises

These site have many exercises, that are very helpful in phonetics. Is divided by levels and everything brings more challenges from the previous information that have been learn. It helps with the vowels and the consonants as well. First you start using words and matching specific letters with phonetic sound or sounds, then later they provide the word and it has to be translate to the phonetic letter assign to the word. It's very fun exercise, more like a game to me. http://www.agendaweb.org/phonetic.html

Blog#5 - Idioms from Shakespeare

I saw this link and it was really interesting to see that some of the idioms we use they come from this famous plays. In the page is the idioms and also some questions to see how the idioms can be used in a sentence. Have fun here is the link: http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/idioms-shakespeare

Blog # 4 Binary computer code

I decide to pick this subject because it was a very interesting way to see how any language we use in the computer it translate to computer understandable language for the computer. The article is very interesting and even have a place to convert letter, words, or sentences into the binary code that computer can comprehend. It's a very interesting topic and a saw myself looking for ways to understand the language and how to use it in the software. I definitely can see the effect this language has taken in our world and how involve is in our future. Here is the link hope you guys have fun as I did.  http://www.theproblemsite.com/codes/binary.asp

Blog # 3 - What is Ebonics?

I was amazed the first time I heard this language, I couldn't understand what they said and I thought; I haven't learn English, but by my surprise, it was the way they communicated with each other. The first time I heard Ebonics was when I lived in New Jersey, later after I learn some word I began to adjust so of those words into the language. It an interesting language, I hope you guy like some of the word and cool information they have in the site. http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/what-ebonics-african-american-english