1. Find information about the history of immigration in Norway

The first immigrant who came to Norway, came from neighboring countries and western Europe. People came to Norway for work for hundreds of years ago. Today, the immigrants population make up to 15.6% of the population  in Norway. That includes children who is born in Norway with immigrant parents. The first immigrant flee started around 1950, when the Norwegian economy improved and there was need for more workers. Today there are more than 200 different nations represented here.

2. Compare Norwegian immigration to the British experience

The immigration in these countries is very similar, but the reasons are different. The reason why Norway got immigrates, is because we needed workers. And the Britain got immigrations through colonization.

The immigrants came from the whole world but mostly from Asia and Africa in Britain and Poland and Sweden in Norway, but Norway has also many immigrants from Asia and Africa. We find the majority of immigrants in the biggest cities, like London and Oslo. 

About 15.6% of the Norwegian population are immigrants but in Britain, the immigrants constitutes only 8% of the British population. 

English is an official language in many countries, and about 1,3 billion people speak English. Of the 1,3 billion people, only 350 million people has English as their mother tongue. The English language was spread an adopted by people from all over the world, because the British travelled to every continent building their empire and established colonies, colonization. This made English to the official language in 52 countries, and that English has become the world's most important lingua franca, who gave it dominant position in trade, politics and culture. 

Checkpoints

1. what is a lingua franca?

• We call it lingua franca when a language is used for communication by two people who are not native speakers.

2. We say that English is the world's most important lingua franca. Why is this?

• Because a big part of the world speaks it

3. Who started to build the British Empire?

• Queen Elizabeth I started to build the British Empire. During the reign of queen Victoria, in the nineteenth century, the British Empire experienced its golden age.

4. What were the reasons for its decline?

• causes was the great losses in the two world wars. Africa and the Indian sub- continent, meant that Britain lost its position as the world's leading power, but an another English-speaking nation, the USA, became a superpower. That ensured the continuing international  importance of the English language. 

5. What is happening to the language today?

• English has become important not only for native speakers, but for millions of other people too. Today the language is in constant change and everyone who speaks it participates in this development.

Viewpoints

1. I don't think the English language directly threatens the position of national languages in small countries. I think the English language comes in addition to the national language. It depends on stuff like internet and traveling.
2. I don't think there are any other languages witch can threaten the position of English as a world language, because  it is already so many people who speak English. 

Global English

1. How many years have passed since the Romans left Britain? What significance did their withdrawal from Britain have for the development of the English language?

• 1500 years have passed since the Roman left Britain. The result of the withdrawal from Britain, was that the English language was spread into the world.   

2. Which capabilities did the English language have since it managed to conquer the world?

• The English language has capability to absorb, involve, invade and spread all over the world.  

3. How many languages has English adopted words from?

• English has adopted words from over 350 languages.

4. What is the total number of English speakers?

• About 1.3 billion peoples speak English, and that is the total number of English speakers.

5. How many speak it as their mother tongue?

• About 25% of the total number of English- speakers has English as their mother tongue.

6. How many speak it as a second language?

• It is also 25% who has English as a second language.

7. What problems does English present for a learner?

• The main problem that does English to a challenging language to learn, is the spelling and the pronunciation. 

8. In which context is Singlish, Hinglish and Chinglish mentioned? Where do you find these accents and why is it necessary to give these accents individual names?

•  Singlish which is Singaporean English, Hinglish witch is Hindi English and Chinglish witch is Chinese English.

9. Why do you think the lecturer suggests that if somebody should think up a new word for English, “it should be in Chinese”?

• Because the language have so little to do with England this days. 

English as a World Language

The difference between British and American English:

• The first difference is the way they speak and the words they choose. Britons sounds more intelligent and the Americans more gregarious.
• The second difference is that the words in AE that ends in -ter, -og, -or, -ize/yze, ends -tre, -ogue, -our, -ise/yse in BE. In addition in BE, the -l at the end of a word is doubled when a new ending is added. In AE the -l is only doubled if the stress is originally on the second syllable. 
• The last difference is that same words can have different meanings.

Example:

AE	BE	Norwegian
elevator	lift	heis
bathroom	WC	WC
Road trip	Car journey	Biltur
sidewalk	pavement	fortau

Checkpoints

1. Some words that are pronounced differently in GA (general American) and RP (Received pronunciations).

            Example:

• Awful
• Dance
• Rather
• Laugh

2. The five main spelling differences between AE (American Engish) and BE (British English):

• Some words that end in -ter in AE end in -tre in BE

            theater (AE)

            theatre (BE)        

• Some words that end in -og in AE end in -ogue in BE

            monolog (AE)

            monologue (BE)

• Some words that en in -or in AE end in -our in BE

            color (AE)

            colour (BE)

• Verbs that end in -ize/yze in AE end in -ise/yse in BE

            analyze (AE)

            analyse (BE)

• In BE, the -l at the end of word is doubled when a new ending is added. In AE the -l is only doubled if the stress is originally on the second syllable:

            rebel- rebelled, travel- traveler (AE)

            rebel- rebelled, travel- traveller (BE)

Translated form BE to AE

I am tired (knackered) and I must go to the bathroom (loo).

Are there any bathrooms (WCs) nearby (close by)?

Must I stand in line (queue) behind that hunky boy (that bloke)?

Is there a drugstore (chemist) anywhere nearby (close)?

I am hungry (peckish).

At the zebra crossing the lollipop lady directed us to take a diversion, but my truck (lorry) was out of gas (petrol) and it was impossible. 

``When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son``

-        The Talmud

I think this quote is important when it comes to child rearing. Because it is so many parents out there who don’t think about the child’s life after the actual upbringing. If a mother or a father abuses a child, the child will possibly think that this is the right way to treat and teach a child, and based on that, do the same with their child.

Abuses in the childhood, can also lead to uncertainty when you grow up.

With other words, the way you are treated, will affect the way you treat others.

My poem

A path between the quiet wood and the busy school

Its fresh air and the weather is cold

Green grass and colorful leaves

The sound of low birdsong that heals

The smell of fresh air and farms, tells that you are at Re

What the three following text tell us about relationship with each other?

``I am a rock``, ``You’ll never walk alone`` and ``No man is an island``

If we comparing these three songs and poem, we can se that they tell us about reality. Sometimes you are alone and you have to stand on you own feet (I am a rock), but in an another time you have your friends to stand by you and help you in hard periods (you’ll never walk alone). And if it’s hard, you are still a piece of the comunety (No Man is an Island).

What is the diference between these three text?

The song ``I am a Rock`` is about being alone. He is afraid of love and friendship, becouse he is afraid to be associated and get dissappointed. He means that it will hurt you. He describes himself as a rock, and an island. That becouse he means a rock don’t get hurt and an island is alone.

But the song ``you’ll never walk alone``, is the opposite. It tell us that when its hard, you are never alone. It is always someone with you. Just hold your head up high, and be strong, then it will end well.  

The poem ``no Man is an Island`` has much aboute the same as ``you’ll never walk alone``. Even if you feel alone, it is always someone who thinking about you and taking care of you.

The bigest difference between ``I am a Rock`` and ``you’ll never walk alone`` are that in the first lyric it is about to be alone, but in ``you’ll never walk alone`` you are never alone no matter whats happen. The same with ``No Man is an Island``.

In ``you’ll never walk alone``, he says that you have to be strong than you get trought this, but in ``I am a rock`` he hiding from his problems. If it is the message in the text who means something, i have to say that ``you’ll never walk alone`` was the most positive, but as I am a Manchester United fan, I have to chose ``No Man is an Island`` to my favorite.

Hi! My name is Anette. I live in Vear, Norway and I am 16 years old. On my sparetime I play soccer and being with friends. This blog is just a school project in English, and I will post my texts here.