3. How are language and culture connected? Well, language is one aspect of culture, along with things like the arts, festivals, and local history.
Language is used to describe culture, and it is very difficult to talk about a country's culture
without using the local language. For example, in China, it is very complex to explain a legend in
another language, because the names of the characters and the place shave a special cultural
meaning in Chinese. We always say that you can't fully understand Chinese culture if you don't
speak the language. In my English class, my teacher used English to describe life in America. For
example, he taught me the word "prom," the night when the senior-high-school students dress up
and go dancing to celebrate the end of the school year. Here, we don't have a word to translate
"prom" in Chinese. You can understand from examples like this that language and culture are very
closely intertwined (= connected).
4. Would it be a good idea for people all over the world to learn a single artificial language, such as Esperanto? No, it wouldn't make sense. Right now, everyone learns English, which is pretty. convenient for all
of us. It's not so difficult to learn English, and we all have access to so much material in English
on the Internet, through textbooks, movies and different. tape recordings. Everything is done for
people to improve their English skills quickly and efficiently. If an artificial language was created,
there wouldn't be so many books and articles for students to practice. In addition, if a language is
alive, it carries a lot more meanings (=is more meaningful), and words are often related to one
another. It is more interesting to learn, a foreign language in order to understand the culture behind
it. On top of this, it would take ears before a majority of people learned enough of the language to
communicate easily. I. it would be too much of a hassle (= too troublesome).
