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

Blog#2 Plants may use language to communicate with each other

This topic spark my mind when I was taking a class this semester about gardening and how plants can communicate with each other. The student as well as the professor gave different examples. One of the example he gave us was that Cleve Backster was studying the plants using the polygraph when someone destroy plant A on front of Plant B that it was in a desk, plant B became a witness of plant A destruction, then they brought to the room 6 different individuals and one of them was the plant destroyer, the plant react to the one that had destroy the plant. I thought these guys are loosing it in this class, but for my surprise I was able to find more information related to this subject. Then I thought this is a way of communication (well you might think I'm loosing it too.)and I decide to continue my search for craziness, I mean more information and came across this information. How plants can communicate using the mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid), this is more into the cellular level. Hope you enjoy the article:
http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2014/08/081514-cals-talkingplants.html

Blog#1 Body language Around the World

 I been looking to have the opportunity to share information about body languages around the world and learn more about this topic. By learning about body language it help me gain a better understanding for other cultures and their costumes. It can relate to any language, is something we all do, more than 50 percent of our communication is done by our bodies. Here is the Article;
http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Resources/Clearinghouse/View-Articles/body-speaks.aspx

      It was really interesting to know how one body language from one culture could mean something completely different in another. I agree with the article, like for example in the Hispanic or Latin America culture we are very affectionate giving hugs and kisses as a way to greet people that are very close, but in the other hand with the culture from United States is very different it could mean you have a very close attraction to the person or they might think the guy is crossing the line. The topic is very interesting, is so much that I could learn about it, and learning will help to be more aware of other culture costumes. Yes, these affect the world as we learn more of the topic we can be more aware of other cultures.

Introductory Blog

I am Victor M. Valderrama Sanchez, probably the student with the longest last name in all Glendale Community College. I have been GCC for a year. I was born in a island know as Puerto Rico one of the commonwealth of United States, therefore I always been an United State citizen, grow up in a city name Fajardo. Two weeks after I was born my family move to Elizabeth, New Jersey; there I stay until I was almost 5 and went back to my little island. When I graduate from High School I have decide to move to Phoenix, Arizona, here I continue my education. I little later in life I took a decision to become a missionary and serve in New Jersey. It was really amazing to be there, as I spoke with many people I have realize something very impressive they spoke many languages. It was my chance to know at least how to greet them in their own language and learn a little about their culture. I was able to learn close to 10 ways to greet people, in their native language, and learn about how language connect with native speakers.

My Major is Engineering, I'm taking ENG 213 because I want to have the certificate, and I want to learn other languages. I believe this class is going to be very helpful in the pursuit of that dream.
Languages I can speak are Spanish and English, some Brazilian Portuguese. I Have many hobbies, I like learning languages, music, art, recently photography, read it about (D.I.Y.), cooking, Science, etc...