...For this assessment I have been required to compare English with another language. I have decided to choose Mandarin as my language of choice. A major elements of languages will be compared in this essay. That being phonology. Phonology is defined as being “the study of the way speech sounds form patterns”.(Victoria Fromkin 2009). As (Hammond 1999) describes, every spoken language has a unique system whereby sounds are organised. This unique pattern of pattern can be termed phonology and varies widely in geographical and social differences. English is the most widely spoken language in the world with up to a total of up to 1.8 billion speakers in the world.(Lewis 2009) It is generally regarded as being the international language or lingua-franca of the world. English is the official language for Australia, New Zealand, England, America and Canada. It is also the joint or semi-official language for many other countries. Each of these countries English differs slightly in phonology and there even exists regional differences inside these countries but in this essay Australian English will be used as the standard. Australian English consists of 24 consonants and 20 vowels, 12 being monophthongs and 8 being diphthongs. Below are charts with the list of consonants and vowels. (http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/ipa.htm) All these sounds...
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...Acknowledgement I thank my organization Motorola, Inc. for considering me as deserving staff and allowing me to conduct the research project. Special thanks to Haroonuzzaman sir for the proper guidance and cordial support. I thank you for the confidence and trust that you placed upon me. I will try my level best to fulfill my commitment by working harder. . Term of Reference 1. Problems: • Price of the phone is high. • Need to do more advertisement. • There are wide range of mobile phone to choose from within the same price range as that of the Motorola V3i,that offer the soma features at a better quality. 2. Limitation: • Consumer are not satisfied with the feedback they get after purchasing are using Motorola mobile phone, that is the reason why Motorola loses brand loyalty. 3. Purpose: • To increase the demand. • To satisfy the customer by give better sale service. • To offer some discount Mandarin (simplified Chinese: 官话; traditional Chinese: 官話; pinyin: Guānhuà; literally "speech of officials") is a group of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and south-western China. Because Mandarin mainly includes speech groups found in the north, the term "northern dialect(s)"...
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...1. early years my family were from china beijing but my grandparents were from Shandong province. All the members can speak mandarin, but sometimes oldest have some local accents. Then, my father was graduated from uk university, so he speak English very well. In my childhood, my father often teached English about grammar and word expression, and I studied English about 15 years but my level is not high. As mandarin, my parents don’t correct my pronunciation, because their workload very large and I often stay with my grandparents. So, my parents wish that I can study mandarin for myself. In my spare time, I often watch tv news and listen to some local video which I can imitate others how to speak official languages. Also, school can help me quickly to understand the sentence’s mean. 2. education impact in china, everyone know chinese mandarin is official language. In my school, teachers teaches our knowledge use it, but sometimes they have local accents. And my grandparents often speak local language, they are know people talk what’s mean, but they can’t answear. And chinese have different nation, some people don’t speak mandarin in their all life, because they can’ t see other province’s people, just watch in his nation’s people. I aware that some language are more respected than others, like English chinese Russian france Arabic german and spainish. A large number of people speak it everyday, they are official language in the world. Then, in our school, we just...
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...(2011) Binus Business School Assignment Cover Letter (Individual Work) Student Information: Name Student ID Number Nikko 1100000191 Course Code : GY007 Course Name : Operation Fundamental Class : MA1 Name of Lecturer(s) : Ade Soekadis, MIE Major : Young Professional in Business Management Title of Assignment : Why Jeruk Medan is more expensive than Jeruk Mandarin Type of Assignment : Analysis of Indonesia Commodity Supply Chain Problem Submission Pattern : Soft Copy Due Date : 25-10-2011 Submission Date : 25-10-2011 The assignment should meet the below requirements. 1. Assignment (hard copy) is required to be submitted on clean paper, and (soft copy) as per lecturer’s instructions. 2. Soft copy assignment also requires the signed (hardcopy) submission of this form, which automatically validates the softcopy submission. 3. The above information is complete and legible. 4. Compiled pages are firmly stapled. 5. Assignment has been copied (soft copy and hard copy) for each student ahead of the submission. Plagiarism/Cheating BiNus International seriously regards all forms of plagiarism, cheating and collusion as academic offenses which may result in severe penalties, including loss/drop of marks, course/class discontinuity and other possible penalties executed by the university. Please refer to the related course syllabus for further information. Declaration of Originality By signing...
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...were large numbers of Mainland China immigrated to Hong Kong since 1974.Luckily, Hong Kong was located on a favorable geographical location, where could attract numerous of people from Western and Asian ,especially the majority of other cities in China ,for example Shanghai.( ¶1)(7)As a result, there had the reduction of multilingualism and the enlargement of Cantonese as usual spoken between 1960s and 1990s.(157)( ¶3) From my point of view, the adoption of "Biliterate and trilingual” policy (¶2) was probably good after Hong Kong handover to China. In the past, British government did not excluded the unique cultures of Hong Kong such as Cantonese and Traditional Chinese. Most of them were willing to accept and even actively to encourage people to learn. However, after Hong Kong returned to China, China government had interfered in Hong Kong Culture. Formerly, we would use traditional Chinese as our local written words. But in now society, we can find that lots of Simplified Chinese is shown in public area. Moreover, Education Bureau also encourage us use Mandarin for education.(21) As we had already handover to China, I hope that the unique culture of Hong Kong can still be kept. Works Cited Shirley C. Ingram & Rebecca S.Y Ng. Cantonese Culture, Aspects of life in modern Hong Kong and Southeast Asia....
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...behaviors, nationalities and languages. Because of these differences, the ideas of learning and using a universal language have been able to unite our diverse population (Goshgarian, 1992). We will be able to communicate to people around the world by learning the language, despite the language barrier. Now what will happen if schools and universities will introduce a new language to the students? Last S.Y. 2011-2012, La Salle University – Integrated School added Mandarin classes as part of the academic curriculum. It was exciting, yet very challenging, for students who first encountered the language. For the next months, students grew interested in Mandarin. Students have learned the basics, studied the Chinese alphabet and learned how to write Chinese characters. Chinese songs and dances were also introduced. “No one is born with the capacity to speak a language; he grows up with it, he absorbs it, he practices it” (Irmscher,1972). It takes commitment and interest to learn a new language. The introduction of Mandarin allowed students to enhance and expand their vocabulary. The student body and the administration truly appreciated the new language. By this, we can express our ideas and comprehend thoughts to a whole new world. At the end of this research paper, we will be able to emphasize the importance of language to our modern society. Without language, government would not operate and businesses would close, in fact, without language, most human activity would cease (Scholastic...
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...Cadbury Crush Case StudyCadbury Schweppes is an important player in the American soft drink market where American consumers drink more soft drinks than tap water. In conjunction with population growth and rising per capita consumption there was an estimated $43 billion in retail sales in 1989. However, trend data suggests that sales of diet drinks accounted for a large portion of the overall growth of carbonated drink sales in the 1980’s with supermarket sales the key to successful soft drink marketing. Despite being the fourth largest soft drink marketer in the United States, 71.4% of the total market was produced by Coca Cola, PepsiCo or Dr. Pepper/7up. However, Cadbury has carved out a niche in the non-cola segment of the soft drink industry where their brands were often the market leader in their specific categories. With their acquisition of Crush in 1989, Cadbury controlled 22% of the orange category of the soft drink market through Crush and Sunkist. The orange category has the third largest share of the market, with a market share of 3.9%. For families with/without children, Crush is an all natural orange flavored carbonated beverage, which blends all natural ingredients that create an exclusive zesty formula because only Crush is filled with natural vitamins. Ultimately, Crush is better for your health than colas. After purchasing Crush, Cadbury executives needed to restructure the Crush brand to gain a higher market share while neither contradicting its current brand...
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...Chinese Language in America Chao Liang Kansa State University 12/7/11 Author Note Chao Liang, undergraduate student, Kansas State University. Chao Liang is major in Finance Management in Business College. This report is a summary of study of Chinese language; experience of teaching Chinese with American student who is taking Chinese class. The culture of Chinese language develops in America. Abstract In this report, it includes 5 main points refer to the Chinese language and personal experience. 1. From learning the Chinese language, grammar, pronunciation, to understand the Chinese language situation in America, Chinese America experience in America. 2. Conclude the experience through teaching Chinese. 3. Compare Chinese cultural and America cultural. 4. Analysis what classmate sharing in class, the importance of team work. 5. Suggestion for the future class. These five different points connected by one common thing, Chinese language. The whole report emphasizes the development of Chinese language in America. How these two different cultures occur chemistry reaction. The improvement of teaching skill make a big contribution on develops of Chinese in America. Chinese Language in America As a Chinese, with more than 10 years of Chinese learning, we cannot image how the foreigner learn Chinese. After study in America, we can see lots of natives are willing to learning Chinese even though it seems extremely difficult to them. Through...
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...radiographer/ sonographer. I graduated from Vision College (Malaysia)with a Postgraduate Diploma in Radiography and Sonography (accredited by the Australian…). I had experienced with (what you can operate- name all the scans/ what’s your current experience etc). Furthermore, I possess good communication and explanatory skills owing to my experiences as a trainee over the years. I am comfortable communicating with peoplecross various age groups, languages and cultural backgrounds. I am aware of the importance of being able to work with others particularly in a working environment which requires accurate diagnosis, patient care and high safety protocols. Iam fluent in English. I am also multi-lingual. I can speak Malay, Cantonese and Mandarin too. The enclosed is my resume for your kind review. I would appreciate the opportunity to speak with you anddemonstrate more fully how I can meet your needs and benefit your organisation. I am expecting a basic salary ranging in between HKD18, 000- HKD20, 000. I would be more than welcome to provide you with anydetails that I had missed and further discuss about the prospects of the position offerd. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Best regards, Name Mobile: E-mail: name | I am an enthusiast in search of an opportunity to demonstrate my potential. I readily engage and work patiently in tasks allocated whilst applying acquired work skills and diligent worker who...
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...Arpan Sharma, a ten-year-old boy in England, speaks eleven languages. According to Birmingham Mail, Arpan has reached the national final of the Junior Language Challenge from among 2,600 students for the first round of the competition. Arpan speaks Hindi and English at home, and he has learned nine other languages such as Spanish, Mandarin, French, German, and Italian from the age of seven. Arpan said that he was very interested in learning languages, and he was good at quickly catching on to new things (Collins 1-2). As the world has become globalize, speaking other languages is one of the most important factors for success these days. Many parents encourage their children to learn foreign languages as soon as they can because they believe that people can learn languages faster and more effectively when they are young. According to statistics in Korea, Korean parents spend about 10 billion dollars a year on their children to learn English (Kim 1). Many children go to private English kindergartens and go to English-speaking countries to learn a foreign language effectively. However, in spite of parents’ consistent effort and support, some kids show side effects such as depression, abusiveness, and insomnia when parents have them learn a foreign language. Shin reported in MBC news of Korea about an eleven-year-old Korean boy. Since his parents had him go to an international school, he started showing all kinds of symptoms of a mental disorder. For instance, he refused to...
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...BYBLOS: The BBN continuous speech recognition system :- In this paper, they describe BYBLOS, the BBN continuous speech recognition system. The system, designed for large vocabulary applications, integrates acoustic, phonetic, lexical, and linguistic knowledge sources to achieve high recognition performance. The basic approach it makes is the extensive use of robust context-dependent models of phonetic coarticulation using Hidden Markov Models (HMM). It describes the components of the BYBLOS system, including: signal processing frontend, dictionary, phonetic model training system, word model generator, grammar and decoder. In recognition experiments, it demonstrates consistently high word recognition performance on continuous speech across: speakers, task domains, and grammars of varying complexity. In speaker-dependent mode, where 15 minutes of speech is required for training to a speaker, 98.5% word accuracy has been achieved in continuous speech for a 350-word task, using grammars with perplexity ranging from 30 to 60. With only 15 seconds of training speech we demonstrate performance of 97% using a grammar. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1169748 Audio-visual modeling for bimodal speech recognition:- Audio-visual speech recognition is a novel extension of acoustic speech recognition and has received a lot of attention in the last few decades. The main motivation behind bimodal speech recognition is the bimodal characteristics of speech perception...
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...Background Joint Ventures Agreement Sheraton Asia Pacific and Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs In August 1966, a joint venture was shaped between Sheraton Asia Pacific and Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Basically, Sheraton Asia Pacific Corporation is a Subsidiary of ITT Sheraton. Andrew Wilson was appointed by Sheraton, an Australian by origin, for the Deputy General Manager position, along with Clara Chan, a Singaporean Chinese, in the Chief Auditor position. These two higher officials were appointed in 1996 only after the regulatory authorities had given formal approval to the project. Agreement Launching Ceremony Incident At the very beginning, a lunch was organized by Yang Zhao, who happens to be the General Manager of the Beijing International Club Corporation. He was also the appointee of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the lunch session, Clara Chan received her first lesson in JV management and experienced what it is like to be in a venture with the Chinese. Yang Zhao gave a rather subtle complement to Chan by saying that she belonged to the Chinese background and due to which she will be culturally in sync to help Sheraton and Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to establish a good understanding and a better network of communication between these two companies. Chinese Economy: At a Glance Chinese government is tried to make a favorable market condition for the foreign investor to attract them to invest in China. The result to...
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... to promote Chinese language and culture as well as knowledge of contemporary China to mainstream Philippine society. The Institute is run in partnership with the Sun Yat-‐Sen University in Guangzhou, China. WHICH LEVEL IS RIGHT FOR If you have zero background of the Chinese language… ð Enroll in BASIC CHINESE 1 If you have basic knowledge of the Chinese language (know Pinyin)… ð Enroll in BASIC CHINESE 2 to 6* If you have knowledge of the Chinese language (know traditional script and Zhuyin)… ð Enroll in BASIC CHINESE 4 to 6* If you want to focus on recognizing and writing Chinese characters… ð Enroll in BASIC CHINESE 3 If you already know the Chinese language and simply want to improve on it… ð Enroll in INTERMEDIATE CHINESE 1 to 5* * Leveling is subject to...
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...Executive Summary: Our group decided to work with Walt Disney Company for operating a theme park in Taiwan. After doing some research on Taiwan local culture and environment it really helps us to know more about this “Treasure Island” which is the place that we decided to operate business. At first of course we were doing some research about our partner Walt Disney Company. As we know this huge company does have an intention to consider Taiwan as viable location to import their company product for long time ago. Taiwan’s island population concentration of 641.24 km2, which is only second to Bangladesh’s 1,101.2 km2, would cause great desire to have the Disneyland and Resorts, especially in the southern part of Taiwan which is where all the good beaches reside. For the Geographical setting of Taiwan, we found that it have both advantage and drawback for us when operating a theme park business here. Advantage is Taiwan is a small island which means the entire Taiwanese or tourist that came to Taiwan may easily come to visit our theme park, unlike Japan or United States; tourist might not easily or have no time to visit every single place in those big countries. But on the other hands, we also might not able to find an suitable huge place to held theme park in such a small island, especially these place already have plenty of theme park as well. For aware this challenge, we have a good strategy to resolve it, that is take over or work with one of the local theme park, the...
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...management. -Deep knowledge of Mercosur, PPB (Brazilian Incentive Law) Taxes and other fiscal regulations. -Expertise in outsourcing support, manufacturing, re-manufacturing and distribution functions. -Flexibility, results driven, strong leadership, negotiation and interpersonal skills. 2.Technical skills Technical skills include knowledge of and proficiency in certain specialized field, such as engineering, computers, accounting, or manufacturing. These skills are more important at lower level management since these managers are dealing directly with employees doing the organizational work. [pic]Toma Kim(Korean) -Project Manager at Foxconn Specialties: -Strong organizational, communication skills. - Excellent planning and coordination skills. - Proficient in Mandarin Chinese and English (both oral and written),Good spoken Japanese. - High level of understanding in China culture and business practices. - Proficient in computer including Power Point, Excel and Word 3.Interpersonal skills Interpersonal skills include everything from communication and listening skills to attitude and deportment. Good interpersonal skills are a prerequisite for many positions in an organization e.g. Leandro Sardela----Production Manager at Foxconn - Program management experience with customer satisfaction focus and operation profit recognized by customers like Sonyericsson and HP - Engineering...
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