Friday, June 26, 2009

75. THE FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE

http://www.learnoutloud.com/podcaststream/listen.php?url=http://www.learnoutloud.com/samples/30784/History%20of%20the%20English%20Language%20-%2001.mp3&all=31023&title=The%20Foundations%20of%20Language

Listen to this audio on the origins of language.
Take notes as you listen.
You can pause it at any time, and then start again.

Listen the important points about language and answer the following questions.

*Hint: You can always cut and paste the questions to a Word document, and then type the answers as you hear them. You can always pause your podcast while you type your answer.

  1. How many languages are there in the world?
  2. What is the main language?
  3. How to we communicate with so many languages? What do you use to help us to do this?
  4. What happens when languages are translated?
  5. What is one of the most difficult languages?
  6. List the different languages that are discussed and what makes the different from the others?
  7. What language has tones?
  8. Why is English one of the most difficult to learn?
  9. Which language is growing and changing quickly?
  10. What age is best to learn language?
  11. How do they learn?
  12. Why is language the common capability of everyone?
  13. What language has no sound?
  14. Where does language start in a person?
  15. What is the Tower of Babel story about language?
  16. What is the explanation that tells why we have different languages?
  17. What is the disease that affects language?
  18. What is "speaking in tongues?"
  19. Where is the "language organ?"
  20. How do scientists and doctors see this organ?
  21. What is Ding Dong theory?
  22. What is the Bow Wow?
  23. What is the Poo Poo?
  24. What is the Ta Ta?
  25. What is the Uh-oh?
  26. What happens after puberty with learning languages?
  27. What is "baby talk?"
  28. What is the one word stage?
  29. What is the two word stage?
  30. What age do children start using clauses?
  31. What is syntax?
  32. What is over generalization of rules?
  33. What is pidgin English?
  34. Where is this spoken?
  35. Why is Hawaiian Creole unique?
  36. How many language are in Papau New Guinee?
  37. What are stone age people?
  38. What are the names of ALL the processes?
  39. What is the global language?
  40. What languages do you speak and at what age did you start to learn them?

1 comment:

Brian Barker said...

I wonder how many people will get the correct global language as Esperanto as in http://www.lernu.net