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  Hi, how are you dear? I hope you are all well.  And back again on my blog. At this time I will explain and give examples related to dialects. So what is a dialect in general definations that you know? A dialect is a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, and/or vocabulary. The study of dialects is known as dialectology or sociolinguistics. The term dialect is often used to characterize any way of speaking that differs from the standard variety of a language which is largely considered to be dialect-free. With that said, few people actually speak the standard variety and most language represents a dialect.  «A dialect is a variety of English which is associated with a particular region and/or social class. » and to find out more about dialect, let us consider the following material. What is Dialect? A dialect refers to a branch of a language. Within this branch, different terms are used for different things. Dialects are usually...

  Hello everyone.     How are you?     I hope all of you are well. Oh yeah, don't forget to stay healthy, because the virus can attack anytime, anyone and anywhere. So you still have to take care of your health. This time I will explain about the country of Singapore, their "mother tongue" and also the influence on their social life. According to the constitutional prevailing in Singapore, this country has four official languages ​​including Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and English. Malay, Tamil and Mandarin were chosen to represent the most dominant ethnic groups in Singapore. Mandarin for Singaporean Chinese, Malay for the Malay community, and Tamil for the largest Indian ethnic group in Singapore. But besides that in Singapore there are also other languages ​​that are still used by many people today which are local variants of the language or characteristics of the country. such as Singaporean Hokkien and Singlish.         Then where did the mot...

Hi all.  How are you?  finally I write on this blog again and this time what I write here is a review of the material that my group and I have discussed about LANGUAGE CHOICE in Multilingual Communities (sources :  https://youtu.be/CpSzrOXt8dY ) Happy reading.. so what is this?  Multilingualism is the use of 2 or a lot of languages, either by a personal speaker or by community of speakers. While, Multilingual is Communities A community that uses quite a language among a communities . Code switch & Code mixing. Code mixing is that the scenario during which individuals combine 2 or a lot of languages or language vogue within the human activity. While, Code switch may be a development which nearly happens in each place during which there's bilingual or trilingual society. Nababan (1993) A preference between the words of 2 languages or varieties requires code mixing. Words area unit borrowed and adapted from one language in an alternative language and usual...

     hello everyone, long time no see! How are you?    I hope all of you are always healthy. By the way it's been a long time since I last wrote my blog, it feels like it's been around a few months ago and now I'm back again to write a little knowledge which I hope will be of use to everyone who reads my blog. This time I will discuss    things that very related to learn english, especially in the field of linguistics. To be precise I will explain about    «SOCIOLINGUISTICS». So, what is Sociolinguistics?     Sociolingusitics is a word that is basically created from two worlds, namely "Socio" and "Lingustics".    Because of the term, sociolinguistics is derived into two words, namely, sociology and linguistics.     Sociology is the study of social or relations between individuals and individuals, individuals and groups, and groups in society.    Meanwhile, linguistics is the study of language.  ...

Hello everyone!!! this time I will summarize my previous discussion about reviews 5 articles in languages ​​that you might find easier to understand which you can find on my main page. Happy reading.   In our own language, writing is usually the fourth language skill we learn.  To write clearly, it is important to understand the basic system of a language.  An author can write for pleasure or personal use, or for an audience of one or more people.  The audience may be known or unknown.   Public blogging is an example of writing for an unknown audience.  Letters to friends are examples of writing for a targeted audience.  The thing we need to know is about the importance of an audience such as speaking, it is also important to consider your audience when writing.  Or it can be said that writing skills are an important part of communication.   Good writing skills enable you to communicate your message clearly and easily to a much large...

   The video above is a conversation between me and my friend that using Indonesian. in the video we discussed and compared our two blogs with the last material we discussed about 5 articles of writing and speaking skills. you can find my friend's article on http://sherynlf.blogspot.com/2020/04/all-about-speaking-skills-from-5.html?m=1. And my article on https://ogcilias.blogspot.com/2020/04/5-articles-review-writing-skills.html.    We discussed about the results of our blog about the 5 articles that each of us had read before. We also discuss what interesting things we found when we read the five articles. And we also discussed what obstacles we faced when reading the five articles and when writing them on our blog. basically our writing goals are the same, we want many people to understand more about these two abilities, while we learn for ourselves in order to improve our abilities in each of the abilities we have discussed previously. may be useful. ...