Writing prompt #13

This is the first time I will be talking about the prompted topic, and today prompt is language. The instruction says that I can write anything about language. There is no way that we can talk about language without mentioning communication. The animals do communicate with each other as we all know and that is because there is a necessity to pass information.

It is just strange that the kind of information captured in their senses in the form of danger, hunger, urges, thirst and a few more which I don't know about. It is obvious that animals too communicate with each other, irrespective of how they communicate.

Considering animals, with my ideas about them as seen in documentaries. I noticed that many times when animals of the same species try to communicate, some of their communications are not very effective. This is because they lack the mainframe of expressing their emotion or feelings at a given time.

This is to make a premise that language is necessary for communication, and I want you to know that communication can only be effective when the individual who decides to send information is not misquoted and mistaken for another thing entirely. By the way, let me give more insight into what I mean by that.

When I was still very young, I speak only my dialect I hope that you have your dialect too in each town of your country or maybe a general language. There is a general language and an official language, which is the English language. The government of my state did not invest much on education, but the people of the community valued if a lot. So, they decided to make a school, and they did. The workers, I mean teachers working in the school in my neighborhood (UBE) are from the same neighborhood. This was because the school is financed and managed by the community.

After a certain election and the inauguration of a new governor, the governor who has promised to bring development to many schools during the campaign period. This time there was no promise and fail in the manifesto, the governor of the state decided to bring new teachers to the community school to fulfil his promise. The issue that, the students are performing well in many of the courses earlier aside from English language before there was any new teachers in the school.

This story aims to tell how effective communication makes things easier and why there is need to learn about general languages too.

The community had to write letters to the governor, stating the subject teacher that they need in their school. So, they wrote the government, as they requested for language teachers. The government granted them their request.

The long story short, it took the pupils a long time to catch up, as many of them failed in English language exams than ever before. And many couldn't contest with other schools during the quiz competitions organized by the ministry of education for all the school in the state. What I noticed was that the communication in the classroom then were not fluent as it is during another subject. The reason they changed their English language teacher was because the headmaster said that it is inappropriate to teach English with their indigenous language. But at the end of the day, his claims were wrong. The ineffective communication with the new teacher set the pupil backward more and more until the teacher was replaced by the old one again.

Language is significant, and we can communicate more fluently and efficiently when you communicate with the language that you understand well. That is why it is difficult for someone else to understand English when you are not used to it. I have not learned Filipinos, so it is difficult to understand it. Non-verbal languages lack complete expression as well as verbal languages. Combining both verbal language and none verbal languages together will make communication more effective.

This is what I was able to write @JonicaBradley about "language"

I appreciate your time.

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