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[Ted talk] Don’t insist on English by Patricia Ryan

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              Ted summary            Patricia talking about language loss and the globalization of English. She talking about her experience of teaching in Abu Dhaby. A language dies every 14 days. At the same time English is the undisputed global language. She was recruited by Britist council along with about 25 other teachers to teach English in Kuwait and they is a first teacher that non-muslim teach there. The reason of government   ask them to teach English because the government want to modernize the country and empower the citizens through education. Why the people would focus on English, this because they want give their children the best chance in life. And to do that they need a western education such as getting education at western university, so they have to follow the test of English. Another language can think that thought then   by cooperating we can achieve and learn so much more. People who no have a light whether it’s physical or metaphorical cannot pass the
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[Ted talk] Txtng is killing language_Jhon McWhorter

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The summary  The idea is texting spells the decline and fall, or at least writing ability. If this see in another way texting is miraculous thing, a kind of emergent complexity. Writing has certain advantages, when you write, it’s a conscious process because you can look backwards. Speech is much looser, much more telegraphic, it’s very different from writing. So, the languages is speech. As history has gone by the natural for there to be a certain amount of bleed between writing and speech. For example, in this era when someone give the speech to basicly talk like writing.   Someone who talking like writing have to type the text first, if she/he do not make by herself, she/he ask people to write what wanna talk, it’s mean the receiver of writing have to have good receive the message and quickly. Texting is very loose in its structure, no one think about capital letters or punctuation in one text. In the new kind of language there is new structure coming up. For example, in
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[Ted talk] The enchanting music of sign language_Christine Sun Kim

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This is summary about sign language by Christine Sun Kim. She start from a piano “p” that mean playing softly. When play music instrument if there is p you have to play softer. The current definition of silent is a very obscure sound. The history of American Sign Language (ASL). French sign language was brought to America during the early 1800s and as time pass this mixed with local signs, it call ASL today. A deaf person that living in sound like living in foreign country. To understand the sound she have two way: Fisrt, watching people response the sound, the people like loudspeaker for her and she learn and mirror that behavior. Second, in the same time she learn to create the sound and see how people respond to her. This is sound etiquette. Deaf culture, movement is equivalent to the sound. The sign for “staff” in ASL is a typical staff contains five lines, for her signing it with her thumb sticking up doesn’t feel natural, so she only draw four lines. She realize that sound
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[Ted Talk] How to learn ? From mistakes ? - Diana Laufenberg

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Summary                                                                                     Ted.com Many people go to school for getting the information from teacher. Diana talked about her experience of teaching in some schools. Internet become an educational tool for getting information. she start teaching from Wisconsin and to small town in Kansas, she teaching an subject about American government. The students of 12th grade in that school is very enthusiastic about that subject. She change her tactic of teaching with give students studying by them self and they make anything for study about government and politics. The students show their experiential and authentic to her. Next, from Kansan she move to Arizona and teach students about geography topic. She start to make a kids to identify about themselves and make an short movie using their own voice and its very awesome. Then, she teach at science leadership Academy in Pennsylvania. The students there bringing laptop eve
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[Ted talk] Why is "X" the unknown ?

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Summary                                                                    Ted.com The X often we find everywhere, and we also learn this variable in the maths class, but x also we can find in the culture the X price, the X files, project X and Ted X. the professor Terry Moore has learning about 6 years. The   Arabic is turns out to be a supremely logical language. In Arabic to write sentence or phrase like crafting an equation. This because in one word have a lot of information. For example, the word Al-Jebr roughly translates to “ the system for reconciling disparate part”. After translate to English that word Al-jebr become Algebra. The sound of Arabic is not represent that are available in European language such as the letter Sheen =  the sound like SH, this the first letter of word shaian   that mean “something, some undefined, unknown thing”, in Arabic only adding al to make meaning unknow thing. The problem for Spanish scholar in translate the material of Arabic is lett
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