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"Broken English"..how is it perceived?

Broken English how is it perceived?  The way we communicate reflects they way we understand the world and people around us, it enables us to understand different ideas, perspectives, and points of view. language is an essential in creating individuality and flourishing new ideas and blooming our own individual life stories. Language allows us to create interesting points of view that are creating through our interaction with other individuals. Modern society has embedded us to view the way people speak and then enable us to categorize and stereotype these people by the way they make words escape their mouths. We begin to have a standard of how people should speak, but who are we to decide how an individual should speak?. When we notice someone talking in "limited" or "broken" English we instantly think of them as being "uneducated" and "ignorant"; We categorize these people as being in impoverished thus we belittle them look down on...
I have goals and fulfillments that i would like to achieve in the upcoming 2 years that will help me be successful in my future as well as in my academics. My short term Goals which are more or less academic consist of: getting 6's throughout all my subjects in the DP being more active in order to maintain a balanced life being more comfortable with math being able to write essays in a clear and concise way, with good structure. I am willing to try many new things in order to achieve my goals, one of them being able to manage my time well and finish all my assessments before the given date in order to go over any mistakes and improvement that could be made in my work with my teacher. Furthermore, I will try to be more organized when it comes to my subjects so that when studying I will know where everything is and be able to study in a better way. The material that we will cover in this class will help me in writing essays, thus I will be able to write in a struc...
Biography My name is Sarah Alameri and this is my Language and literature blog! I am from the UAE and currently in the eleventh grade and study at Raha international school. I am a very adventures person and love exploring new ideas and places, moreover I enjoy being active and understanding different cultures, ethics and landmarks,  I have several interests that include, playing karate, singing as well as watching tv shows, and they are typically what I do in my free time. In my perspective language is very important in understanding the world and how we are able to communicate. I am bilingual and speak; english and arabic. Language plays a big role in my life as how especially when communicating with my friends and family, I find it astonishing how much these 2 languages come together and have some similarities and differences. In addition, language allows people all over the world to communicate and share ideas in a different and unique ways. Furthermore, language allows ...