Questions for Sunday:
1. Why is it important for students of English as a second language to study language and linguistics?
2. What counts as a language?
Zawawi
Questions for Sunday:
1. Why is it important for students of English as a second language to study language and linguistics?
2. What counts as a language?
Zawawi
Animals only communicate about their instincts through sounds and body language.
Duha
Because it is limited in a few signals, cries, make a noise and sometimes they use body language
1.Animals use only a few sounds or actions.
2.They don’t make sentences and there is no grammar .
3.Most of their “talking” is natural not learned.
4.They can’t make new words.
Dunia Murad
They cannot express abstract ideas, past or future events, and lack grammar or complex structures like human language.
Mayar
Animal communication is simple and limited. Animals use sounds, body language, and smells to meet basic needs, like warning of danger or finding food. They lack a complex vocabulary or grammar and cannot discuss abstract ideas. Their communication is mostly context-specific, relying on their senses and not on tools like writing.
Maya
Animals communicate through sounds and signals, but their systems differ significantly from human language. Unlike human language, animal communication lacks complex syntax, expressiveness for abstract ideas.
Animals communicate about basic needs and cannot talk about big ideas. They use simple sounds or signs, not like human language.
Some of them use special senses which humans don’t have.
Malak Zaid.
humans' language is complicated but the animals' language is more direct and immediate. animals use their body language and specific calls between them.
lara
There are no words or grammar they only use sounds or movements like the bee dance Their communication is simple and linked to specific things like warning or searching for food.
Noor
Many people say that cats' language is understood from their tails.
Ibtisam
The communication system of animals is limited in many ways compared to our human language. Can you summarize some of them?
Zawawi
Being a speaker of a language means having the ability to combine a limited number of sounds or symbols to form words. These words are combined together to form an infinite number of sentences.
Zawawi
Do animals have a language and if they do, how is their language different from out human language?
Zawawi
1. What is the best definition of language and linguistics?
2. Why is it important for students of English as a second language to study language and linguistics?
3. What are your expectations about this course?
Zawawi