Spoken vs. written language

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Aisha and Dariya

Spoken English Traits:

- Spoken English varies in accents, utterances, and dialects.

- Has a distinct formality.

- Usually more informal and casual than written.

- Real-life communication.

- Its purpose is to share thoughts and ideas.

- Includes a narrative, occasion, initiative, and story-based basis.

- Shorter sentences and simpler vocabulary.

- More immediate.

- Requires an understanding of intonation, stress, timing, and pitch.

- Lengthier as people usually speak more than they write.

Written English Traits:

- Found in textbooks, magazines, newspapers, articles, blogs, and letters.

- Mainly conveys information, but in literature, it expresses the writer's emotions.

- Written texts are fixed, so they can be read anytime and anywhere.

- Written texts help readers build and develop their ideas.

- Written texts connect readers to the words, allowing authors to convey emotions through text.

- Written English is more formal and follows stricter grammatical rules.

- Acceptable writing typically uses a standard dialect of the language.

Andrii & Ridwan

1)Written:- Is usually permanent

Spoken:- Is usually immediate

2)Written:- Can usually be remembered easily due to visualisation

Spoken:- Is not easier to remember due to visuals being easier to remember than audios

3)Written:- Usually sounds formal

Spoken:- Despite the formality in language, can still be more informal than written

4)Written:- Can be more easily preserved and sometimes the primary reason

Spoken: Despite technology, can still be difficult to preserve.

5)Written:-Pronunciation is not apparent when observing written language

Spoken:- Pronunciation is more understandable due to native and non-native speakers, developing different accents.

Ania and Anna

-pronouncation

people pronounce the words differently from how they're supposed to be pronounced

-grammar

while speaking people tend to ignore usage of tenses, punctuations, indirect narrations, note of interrogation and sometimes don't finish their sentances

-accentuating

people that are better in writing tend to not accentuate while speaking. This is most noticeble spechees this consequently means the speech is flat since there is no emphesis

in the video we can always see a comparison of spoken English and written English.

Written language is what we read. Spoken is what we hear.

Written language: more permanent

Spoken language: more immediate

Written language: more complex vocabulary and sentence structure

Spoken language: simple vocabulary and short sentences

Written Language

-More permanent

-Can be read and re-read

-More complex senteces structures and vocabulary

-Hard to express with emotions

Spoken Language

-More immediate

-Can be only heard and remembered in the moment

-More casual and conversational

-shorter sentences and simple vocabulary

-Can be easily expressed by emotions

Serik

Mohammad and Ayad

Written language is what we read and write, using symbols like letters and vocabulary . It’s usually more formal and planned. Spoken language is what we say and hear in conversation, often more casual and immediate.