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Nombre:
1. What are 4 reasons we communicate with others?
2. What is the world language?
3. What is language?
4. What are the 5 romance languages?
5. C/F
A dialect is a particular form of a language that is specific to a certain
region or social group.
6. What makes Spanish a phonetic language?
7. What does pronunciation mean? Which sounds in Spanish are difficult to pronounce?
8. What accent are you hoping to have when speaking Spanish?
9. Name “grammar” elements in a language:
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10. What is cognate and give examples of exact, close, and false cognates:
A cognate is:
Exact
Close
False
11. What makes up a culture?
12. A Spanish country must have
to be called Spanish.
A. Spanish people
B. Spanish as the most spoken and official
language
C. Spanish leaders
D. Previously been a territory of Spain
13. Hispanic refers to the culture, people, or nations connected to
14.
is anyone of Latin American origin or ancestry.
15. Which two ethnic groups are we studying in Spanish class?
.
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16. What determines a person’s race?
17. What is the nationality of people from these countries?
México
U.S.A
España
Puerto Rico
18. Do you know of any stereotypes? What is one disadvantage to you and the culture when
you stereotype? How can a stereotype have a positive impact?
19. What do you know about the Spanish language, cultures, and/or its people?
20. What do you want to learn about the Spanish language, cultures, and/or its people?
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Spanish Class Definitions
1. Communication
Information transmitted or conveyed; a process by which information is exchanged
between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior; socializing,
providing and obtaining information, expressing feelings, and persuasion are all reasons
for communication; communication is often done through speaking, listening, reading, and
writing
a. 4 reasons why we communicate
1. Socialize
2. Ask/Provide Info.
3. Opinions
4. Persuasion.
2.World Language
a language known or spoken in many countries. "English is now the world language".
3.Language – Mandarin, Spanish, English, Arabic, Hindi, etc.
a: the words, their pronunciation, and the methods of combining them used
and understood by a community
b
(1): audible, articulate, meaningful sound as produced by the action of the
vocal organs
(2): a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of
conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood
meanings
(3): the suggestion by objects, actions, or conditions of associated ideas or
feelings <language in their very gesture — Shakespeare>
(4): the means by which animals communicate
(5): a formal system of signs and symbols (as FORTRAN or a calculus in
logic) including rules for the formation and transformation of admissible
expressions.
4. Romance Language- French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian
the group of languages derived from Latin.
5. Dialect
a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
6. Phonetic
of or relating to speech sounds.
7. Pronunciation- the way to form sounds using placement and shaping of the tongue in
relation to the lips, teeth, roof of the mouth and location in the mouth.
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8. Accent
a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, esp. one associated with a particular
nation, locality, or social class.
b distinct emphasis given to a syllable or word in speech by stress or pitch.
9. Grammar
the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as
consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology
and semantics.
a. Pronunciation/Spelling
b. Articles
c. Nouns
d. Gender
e. Adjectives
f. Adverbs
g. Verbs
h. Pronouns
i. Sentence structure
j. Prepositions.
10. Cognate
having the same linguistic derivation as another; from the same original word or root.
11. 7. Culture
the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
Culture is made up of a variety of elements:
1. Symbols
2. Language
3. Values-what is good/bad
4. Norms- people’s behavior
5. Social organization- family patterns, social classes
6. Customs and traditions-clothing, food, laws
7. Religion/Beliefs
8. Art and literature
9. Forms of government
10. Economic systems – traditional, market, mixed, command.
12. Spanish country
A nation with its own government, occupying a particular territory; the primary official
language is Spanish.
13. Hispanic
the culture, peoples, or nations with a historical link to Spain.
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14. Latino
anyone of Latin American origin or ancestry.
15. Ethnic group/Ethnicity
relates to cultural factors such as nationality, culture, ancestry, language and beliefs
people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
**An ethnic group or ethnicity is a population of human beings whose members identify
with each other, on the basis of a real or a presumed common genealogy or ancestry.
16. Race
1. A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct
group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history,
nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
3. A genealogical line; a lineage.
** Race refers to a person's physical appearance, such as skin color, eye color, hair color,
bone/jaw structure etc.
The term race refers to the concept of dividing people into populations or groups on the
basis of various sets of physical characteristics which result from genetic ancestry.
17. Nationality
the status of belonging to a particular nation.
18. Stereotype
a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or
thing.
**Ethnocentrism- believing your culture to be the best; judging other cultures against your
own in a negative way.