I have to shave my neighbor’s cat!? I’ve been teaching English in classrooms in Latin America since 2009, and one issue that always amuses me is the question of reflexive verbs. If I were to say to a Spanish speaker: “tengo que afeitar” (I have to shave), this would immediately cause some degree of confusion …
Does Gender in Language Affect Our Perception of the World? How is gender expressed in language? More importantly, how does gender in language affect our perception? Since beginning my teaching career in 2009, I have worked with students of many different native languages; Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, Latvian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, etc… With …
Does correct pronunciation even exist? Is correct pronunciation a myth? For that matter, does language exist? Wait! What did he say!? Is he mad?? Of course language exists!! Well, yes and no. It can be argued that what we call language is merely the dialect of a region which came to dominate a country. What …