Carol Raterman
English 1101: “Language Controversies”
Dr. Hughes
Week 1, Day 3 Blog
I have been exposed to a little bit of many different languages. English is my main language and is the language my family speaks in our house. Although English is my main language, my dad has traveled around the world with his job and teaches us a little bit of what he learns from every place that he has been. It is very important to my family to try to learn and understand person’s language because that is way to get to know a person better. As I learned a little bit of each language from my dad’s trips, it would allow me to be able to say thank you at a Chinese restaurant in Chinese and the people working there would think it was impressive I knew how to say thank you in Chinese.
Twice every week in class at my elementary and middle school, we would have Spanish class to help us learn Spanish and more about the Spanish language. In high school, I had a Spanish class everyday. In elementary school, we learned everything from the letters, numbers and food to how to have a conversation with someone. If someone wanted to have a conversation with me in Spanish, I would be able to start a conversation by asking them how they are doing, but not very much more. When I was taking classes everyday I was able to have a longer conversation with a person.
Although English is not my best subject because I do not like the grammar and everything, I do enjoy writing stories. I like just making up random stories or stories inspired by my life or what I see in everyday life.
Both, my mom and dad, a majority of their family live up in Ohio. I have noticed over the past 18 years that we people from Georgia and people from Ohio have different accents and say words differently. In the south, I have always called any carbonated beverage a “Coke”. In the north, any carbonated beverage is a “pop”. When we are all hanging out together, we have come to an agreement to call the carbonated beverage a “soda”.