literacy #1 blog entry #2

By the reason of that I really do not have ideas about how to write the blog entry. I visit haoshuai’s blog and the things she writes give me some thought. So I decide to write my first literacy---language.
Language is obviously a vital tool. Not only is it a means of communicating thoughts and ideas, but it forges friendships, cultural ties, and economic relationships. Language is such a literacy that we may ignore but play a critical effect in our day-to-day life.
We can come back to the history to figure out the importance of language. For example, the scholar Benjamin Whorf has notes that language shapes thoughts and emotions, determining one’s perception of reality. John Stuart Mill said that “language is the light of the mind.”
With the development of the modern society, changes occur everywhere and everyday, however, the importance of language becomes more and more apparent. To me, who use English as a second language, language, of course, is knowledge and literacy, and in our world today knowledge is one of the key factors in competitiveness. We come to the United States, which use English as its office language. We need to speak, write, listen, and read all in English. In order to do well in the study and adapt to the circumstance here, we are supposed to learn English well.
Here is a story happens in my sister’s home when I visit her with haoshuai in spring break. According to the two story haoshuai writes, I thing the reason causing the misunderstand is the pronounce. Consider that we live in different countries, so we have accent. As a consequence of it, it sometimes leads to some confuses in one word. For it is different for us to pronounce “glass” clearly distinct from “grass” . What’s more, when I try to teach him Chinese, it seems really hard for him to speak a word like our Chinese, the native speakers. In this case, confuse happens. Another story I want to say is for haoshuai and I come from different cities in china, we have our own dialects as well. So when I talk to my sister in Fuzhou dialect, she has totally no idea what we are talking about. Same things happen in Mark. Every time we sit together and chat in mandarin, the office language in china, Mark seems to be curious about what we are talking about, so he keeps asking “what? What?” He says he really wish he can understand Chinese. It is a funny story, but I think it reflect the importance of the language. It is certainly a literacy in our daily lives