Different dialects
- 1. Examples from Youtube: American Australian British Irish Scottish Pidgin
- 2. Standard language –The variety of a language treated as the official language and used in public broadcasting, publishing and education Accent – The many several ways in which language can be pronounced Dialect – Variation in grammar, spelling, vocabulary and pronunciation Pidgin – A simplified form of speech, usually a mixture of two or more languages. With simplified grammar and vocabulary. Used for communication between groups speaking different languages. Creole – A pidgin which has developed into a mother tongue. It has become a native language for the people in that specific region
- 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKc_CybBf zs&feature=related Can sound completely different though; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R30D7v5RRS Y Has approximately 280,950,438 (2007) speakers if you count the americans – but how many people speak American English in the rest of the world if you think about it?
- 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG0v9tZS tAk&feature=fvst Did you notice any differences between Australian English and American English? In Australia, there are 22,620,600 (2011) inhabitants.
- 6. Tons of different accents; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNQfPDpt-Y Yorkshire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvGHIW3GQv8 London http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnjGNJ5JL8w RP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNu3q5ODgqs How would you rank these varities when it comes to status? Which one will be on the top? Which one on the bottom?
- 8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT9xuXQj xMM Ireland has 4,487,000 inhabitants (2011).
- 9. - What are your thoughts on the position in the world for these varities? If you consider how familiar you are with them, how many speakers they have etc… - Discuss in groups.
- 10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7X9AAeDCr 4 A pidgin is a variety of a language that developed for some practical purpose, for an example trading. An English pidgin is a language which has developed from English, mainly. There are several English pidgins used today, out of which you will hear one type now. There are believed to be between six and twelve million people still speaking pidgin languages.