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Language Map Sept. 16th

My Language Map: if you can't read the red writing on the map, the dark blue area is the Celtic language, the Teal color is Germanic, Orange is Balto-Slavic, Yellow is Italic, Green is Helenic, and Purple is Indo-Iranian. You can't really tell the difference from the Italic and Balto-Slavic, bu the Italic is under Germanic, and Balto-Slavic is across from is, over Helenic.

Podcast Summaries

Part One:

In the first part of the podcast, the speaker is talking about when the Iranian president,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, used rude words towards the United States. He called them "the boogie man snatched the boob." It's so shocking because it came from a politician, a head man of countries. He tried to show that he was a man of his people, and he would support his people. 

Part Two:

The northernmost town in Greenland is fixing its dialect, and most people know very little about their language called Inukten. The people in this town live very old lifestyle including hunting and riding on dogsleds. About 1,000 people live in this community, and a man from Cambridge University is studying their language and their ways of life for a year and writing about it.

Part Three:

The third part of the podcast talks about how international blockbusters were sold in the United States and made a lot of money ten years ago, but now foreign language movies are trying to find new ways to get an audience. It is harder to get people to watch these movies because of all of the new movies from America coming out. It would have to be extremely special for people to watch foreign language movies. The other problem is that foreign language movies don't go into theaters, and without theaters, you can't get reviews that would be showed to people, and that would enable it to be talked about. They have to be good to be seen anywhere. 

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New Terms Aug. 31st

Globalization:  to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide
Example: the CEO of google globalized and extended that website to all different parts of the world.


Humanity: 1. all human beings collectively; the human race; humankind.2.the quality or condition of being human; human nature.
Example: Doctors use humanity  to understand human nature.


Culture: 1.the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.2.a particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period: Greek culture.3.development or improvement of the mind by education or training.4.the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group
Example:  The world is made of many different cultures and societies.

Civilization: an advanced state of human society, in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached.
Example: Civilization has advanced since the 20th century. Technology, science, and mostly everything have advanced.


History: the branch of knowledge dealing with past events.Example: History is absolutely anything in the past.

** ALL DEFINITIONS WERE FROM DICTIONARY.COM!! **