Monday, November 14, 2011

Do you think language unites or divide us?



Language is the best way to communicate between people in the entire world. It keeps us in one circle and I mean it unites us. The majority of people speak English however English maybe not their native language. My native language is not English but I like to learn it because I want to connect with people surround me. Many of the students have the same situation but English unites us and make nice bridges between the people. I practice my English language outside home and inside the school because I am still having problem with it however I will focus to get the best knowledge from this language. This would work with all languages but English language has the most impact in our life. We need to fill the gap that divide people and choose perfect language to solve these problems. The population of the United States is growing of different types of people and English is the only language could unite us. I cannot speak Chinese language with my friend and he cannot speak Arabic but both of us could speak English. We are learning basic language and that would not help us in our future. The teachers should focus on deeply. We don’t want to learn surface language that makes a gap between us and native speakers. People should recognize the language before learn it. For me as ESOL student, I would say that getting English college classes would force you to learn language in the best form. 

Thursday, November 3, 2011

My Immigration experience

Before I came to the United States, we used to live with our family and friends and all of them were happy. When the war started to take off Saddam Hussein from his presidency and make Iraq free country, we didn’t leave the country. It was a very hard time for me and my family however we stayed there until 2007. Our family had been divided, my brother went to Jordan and my mother and sister went to Syria with me. We were wishing to live to gather but the Jordan Government didn’t allow us because of some reason and we still don’t know. We went to Syria because the situation got worse in Iraq. Syria had about 1 million Iraqi immigrants and Jordan had more than 500 thousands immigrants on their land. We lived about two years in Syria before we got accepted to come to the United States. All my mother family had been lived inside the US for more than 10 years. I saw a lot of immigrants from different countries and all of them speak more than one language. The United States is a country of immigrants. All the countries should make solution for their immigrants before time goes up.