USING SLANG IN EVERYDAY LIFE

When coming to communicating with slangs, I think that it is very easy to speak because you can express yourself perfectly and freely. You would not have to study about use the right tenses or even to pronounce the word properly, with using slangs you just have to open your mouth and people would understand you, if they are also speaking with slangs. But as my mom would say there is a place and time for everything. And in this case there is, when you are around family and friends you can speak the slang, but when you are in public eye, at a fancy restaurant or at a company function you should speak Standard English. When you speak Standard English in these places, people would not have the cause to embarrass in front of important people. So you have to know when you can speak Standard English and when you can use the slangs.

EFFECTIVE VERBAL COMMUNICATOR

 I am a very effective verbal communicator when I am around family and friends, I will make sure and get my point around whether being harsh or soft tone, but I will definitely make them understand what I am trying to say. But when it comes to public speaking or talking to a stranger, I am not an effective verbal communicator, I not sure what to say to get my point across.  Maybe because I not demonstrate linguistic sensitivity enough and I really think that I have to improve on that so I can get my point across to the people.  

AN ARTICLE FROM A LOCAL NEWSPAPER

The article that I have chosen was the story about the sex scandal with the teacher in an all girl school. The public came to the attention of this story, when a 29 year old school teacher sent nude pictures of himself to several of his students in one of the prestige school. To top it off, it is said that he had sexual intercourse with one of the girls twice on the school compound.

One of the girls parent saw the nude pictures on her daughter laptop, which then she proceeded to the police station with the story and pictures. When I heard this story I was disgust to my stomach, I really could not believe that a teacher would take advantage of these girls like that.

Teachers are suppose to be someone that you can trust, someone who can encourage you when you are down, but the most important thing is , they are suppose to care about you. He of should resign in the first place; he should not even become a teacher if his mind was not there for the children. I really could not believe that an incident took place in Trinidad, the teacher should be lock up and put behind bars for life.     

THE CULTURE THAT I PRESENTED

The culture that my group did was Trinidadians East Indians, we learn about there religious beliefs, their food, greetings and the values they uphold. The culture was definitely different from what I thought I knew, especially when coming to the celebration, I had no idea that all the preparation like fasting for six to eight week or the meaning why the keep up the festival. For instant, the Divali festival, the Hindu take this celebrations very serious because, this is the time were they believe that the spiritual darkness has been lifted, and that they well receive wealth and prosperity in the coming of the New Year.   The next thing that I have learned is, in the phagwa festival the music that they dance and sing to is a different type of music. They sing to a special type which is called chowtal and they dance to two instruments which are dholak and majeera. When I am communicating with my fellow East Indian friends, I will have something new to talk to them about and I can get to understand it a little better.

IN CLASS PRESENTATION

The in class presentation was very educational, most of the cultures that we had I knew about them, but it had one culture in particular, that I really did not know much about the way in which they communicate. The Japanese, have different ways in which they communicate to one another, for example, the way that Trinidadians would greet each other is not the same way that Japanese greet one another. The Japanese would bow as a sign of greeting, they would eat with chopsticks instead of using a fork or a knife and when they communicate with others they do not look them directly in the eye. So there communication ways are much different to the communication that I have grown to know. I really have to say that I have learn from the cultural presentation that took place in class

DOES CULTURE IMPACT THE WAY YOU COMMUNICATE

I think my culture impact my communication, according to which part of the world that I am in. if I am in my home country people would understand what I am saying. But when I am in a foreign country, for example Spain, they speak a totally different language from us Trinidadian, so it was very hard to understand what they were try to tell us and even what we were try to tell them. With reference to the example, when to culture collide it is hard to understand what the other person is try to say, when this incident occur your nonverbal action would be place on overtime. This is because you would not have an idea to what the person is say and your face expression would show what you are thinking of the conversation. Which in some country is a total disrespect.