īut you don't have to break the bank when you say, "I Do." In fact, there are less expensive options that can be just as special and romantic places to tie the knot. Although the band, photographer, and dress can eat up quite a bit of your budget, the venue is often the most expensive part of your wedding, with a national average of $15,163. And that cost gets even higher in cities like New York ($76,944), Chicago ($55,332), and Los Angeles ($44,142). The Knot's 2017 Real Weddings Study revealed that the average cost of a wedding in the United States is $33,391, before the honeymoon. It can also be one of the most expensive. The narrator fed the cat with crickets becauseģ) he wanted to hide crickets from Mamma.ģ) to throw away newspapers and magazines.Ģ) the wind lifted some papers onto the wood pile.Ĥ) that there was not much to save from the fire.Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your life. Mamma threatened to pack up and leave becauseĢ) she had not got used to rustic living.Ĥ) she was a city girl through and through.Īfter Dad had sprayed the basement and all around the foundation of the house,ġ) the family were constantly coming across dead crickets.Ģ) the family kept seeing live crickets everywhere. Each loss becomes a linguistic black hole, where an entire way of knowing the world disappears. But when a human language disappears, there’s rarely any key left behind. When a species dies out, sometimes fossils can be found, remains uncovered. More than half of the world’s 7,000 languages are expected to die out by the end of the century, often taking with them irreplaceable knowledge about the natural world. This is the essence of the ‘Esperanto Movement’. The major ‘national’ languages could keep their special characteristics for anyone who wanted to learn them. Then everyone could communicate with everyone, everywhere.
Rather than have businessmen, diplomats, scientists and tourists from every country learning all the major languages that they want to learn or need to learn, Esperantists would have everyone just learn one second language - Esperanto. Just remember how exciting it will be and how rewarding you will feel at the accomplishment.į. How much time you can devote to learning will play a role in how quickly you can learn the language. What is important when learning a language? If you have the desire and persistence, time is the only factor that you may have to work with.
Options to learn a language by Internet are still limited but the potential is not.Į. Now technology has given us a new format - the Internet. In the last few decades technology has given us a much needed audio option - first vinyl records, then cassettes and CDs. Until just a few years ago, language study was limited to the classroom or personal tutor, or home study by book. English speakers who learn both French and Spanish sometimes combine grammatical rules of both when speaking either of them.ĭ. For instance, most Americans who learn French in high school or college pronounce French words with a distinctive American accent. Learning a second language can be affected by the patterns of the first language. It is superior to taking foreign language classes because it forces you to concentrate on it all of the time.Ĭ. At any age, learning by constant contact with native speakers in their own society is the quickest and the most effective method. It is particularly important to learn correct pronunciation as young as possible. Learning a second or third language is easier in early childhood than later. Initially, this means that they copy the way adults use words and grammar.ī. Most linguists believe that they do it primarily by listening to and trying to communicate with adult speakers. How children actually learn language is not entirely clear, however. They come into the world as eager learning machines, and language acquisition is a major aspect of this learning. Young children have a genetic ability to learn language. Looking back on the show, the narrator says thatġ) few people really believed she could win.Ģ) the members of the crew were not at all supportive.Ģ) she could serve as a role model for young girls.ģ) girls should not live up to their idols.Ī.
The narrator says she started to write songsģ) because it was the best way to express her feelings.ġ) she could afford to have a recording studio.ģ) she bought Christmas presents for her friends.Ģ) she had got several college music scholarships.ģ) a friend told her about the American Idol audition in Dallas.
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