Culture and Language
by second language learners
Is English mostly spoken by native speakers or second language learners?
-caster (Lancaster, Manchester etc)
In words like cookies and biscuits
How do British and American vocabulary differ?
roight
How does an Australian say the word "right"?
Pretoria
What is the capital city of South Africa?
It can describe the values, convictions and attitudes that people share in a society.
What does culture mean?
Anglo-Saxons
Who came to Britain after the Romans left?
geographical boundaries
What boundaries do accents generally follow?
Canberra
What's the capital city of Australia?
Kingston
What is the capital city of Jamaica?
It usually follows the S-V-O structure. (Subject-Verb-Object)
Word order in English.
around 2000 words
How many words did the Vikings give English?
Time
What's a major factor in accent boundaries?
Wellington
What is the capital city of New Zealand?
Nelson Mandela
Who is one of the most famous South Africans ever?
They are inextricably intertwined (you cannot have one without the other)
What is the relationship between language and culture?
colonisation
Why did English spread so far and wide from the 17th-19th centuries?
socioeconomic background, generation, ethnicity and race, other individual factors
What do accents vary by?
Maori
Who were the first people to settle in New Zealand?
13 countries and 12 territories
What makes up the Caribbean islands?
The judgement of something/someone without knowing them because of your own experience (or lack thereof)
What is prejudice?
1066
When was the Battle of Hastings? (The norman conquest of Britain)
George Bernard Shaw
Who wrote the quote "England and America are two nations separate by the same langauge?
From the beginning
What does the word "aboriginal" mean?
V.S. Naipaul
Who is a famous writer from Trinidad?