English For Fun

  Nepal is a multilingual, multi-ethnic and multi-religious country. The people of Nepal speak different languages that belong to various ethnic groups (Tobin, 2011). The latest study has shown that 92 languages are spoken across the country (Nepal at a glance, 2011). Nepali is the national language which is spoken by nearly half of the total population. It is the language of legal affairs, business transactions, mass media and administration. It is also used as a medium of instruction in public schools and universities. The   Ethnologue  (Lewis, 2009) published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Texas, USA, offers a total figure of 120 extant languages in Nepal.   English is considered as a foreign language for the speakers of Nepali. It is taught as a school subject. In earlier decade, the purpose of English in Nepal is to give students a foreign language competence that may use to listening radio, to understand dialogue in the movies, to use language for co...

  In my perceptions, I am a descriptivist. I think meanings are more important it prescribed the unchanging grammar rules. It focuses only those rules prescribe what is right and wrong. It is often adhered to out the sense of obligations and superiority. It would be facilitated between specific age groups or Circles with different ethnic language background from diverse culture. 2.        /desk/and /disk/, /wet/ and/wait/,/bad/ and/bed/ 3.        Yes. I think S can be a morpheme because it is a single segments of language that changes the meaning of the sentences. It meets the basic three criteria : a.        It is a word or a part of a word that has meaning. b.       It cannot be divided into smaller meaningful segments without changing its meaning. c.        It has relatively the same stable meaning in different ...