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Today I will share a video that show the advantages of learn other language and how this can save you life :)

This is the last post about globalizacion & languajes and communication...




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCocV9uFMhI&NR=1&feature=endscreen

This is other joke about global warming, is Jack some years after when the ice was melted and he find to Rose... XD

A good question!

Today I came a question and they will share!

The Question:
How many spoken languages are there in the world?

The Answer:
There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers.

The most popular language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 1,213,000,000 people in the world that speak that language.

this picture show a joke about one of the consecuences of globalization!!

Today I want to share a video that explains some forms of communication.

Effects of Globalization

Globalization has various aspects which affect the world in several different ways such as:

* Industrial - emergence of worldwide production markets and broader access to a range of foreign products for consumers and companies. Particularly movement of material and goods between and within national boundaries.

* Financial - emergence of worldwide financial markets and better access to external financing for borrowers. As these worldwide structures grew more quickly than any transnational regulatory regime, the instability of the global financial infrastructure dramatically increased, as evidenced by the financial crises of late 2008.

* Economic - realization of a global common market, based on the freedom of exchange of goods and capital. The interconnectedness of these markets however meant that an economic collapse in any one given country could not be contained.

* Ecological - the advent of global environmental challenges that might be solved with international cooperation, such as climate change, cross-boundary water and air pollution, over-fishing of the ocean, and the spread of invasive species. Since many factories are built in developing countries with less environmental regulation, globalism and free trade may increase pollution. On the other hand, economic development historically required a "dirty" industrial stage, and it is argued that developing countries should not, via regulation, be prohibited from increasing their standard of living.

* Cultural - growth of cross-cultural contacts; advent of new categories of consciousness and identities which embodies cultural diffusion, the desire to increase one's standard of living and enjoy foreign products and ideas, adopt new technology and practices, and participate in a "world culture". Some bemoan the resulting consumerism and loss of languages. Also see Transformation of culture.

A little information about language

Hey everybody I want to share this information with you!

Humans are the only species that has evolved an advanced system of communication between individuals. Whereas other species communicate through ritualized and repetitious songs, calls, or gestures, humans have developed linguistic systems that can express a literally infinite variety of separate and distinct thoughts. This incredible evolutionary leap is what distinguished humans from all other organisms on earth.

The Evolution of Language

Language first appeared between 30,000 and 100,000 years ago in the species Homo sapiens. But how did language evolve? Currently, there are two rival answers to this question: the first and more common explanation is that language was an adaptation of some sort; the second (chiefly espoused by Stephen Jay Gould) is that language is a spandrel, a nonadaptive element arising as a byproduct of other processes. We will consider these explanations in reverse order.

Advantages or disadvantages about globalization

Today I want to write something about globalization that how all topic have advantages and disadvantages...

Advantages:

* Globalization lets countries do what they can do best. If, for example, you buy cheap steel from another country you don’t have to make your own steel. You can focus on computers or other things.

* Globalization gives you a larger market. You can sell more goods and make more money. You can create more jobs.

* Consumers also profit from globalization. Products become cheaper and you can get new goods more quickly.

Disadvantages:

* Globalization causes unemployment in industrialized countries because firms move their factories to places where they can get cheaper workers.

* Globalization may lead to more environmental problems. A company may want to build factories in other countries because environmental laws are not as strict as they are at home. Poor countries in the Third World may have to cut down more trees so that they can sell wood to richer countries.

* Globalization can lead to financial problems . In the 1970s and 80s countries like Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia or Brazil got a lot of money from investors who hoped they could build up new businesses there. These new companies often didn’t work, so they had to close down and investors pulled out their money.

* Some of the poorest countries in the world, especially in Africa, may get even poorer. Their population is not as educated as in developed countries and they don’t have the new technology that we do.

* Human, animal and plant diseases can spread more quickly through globalization.

 

Why women tend to talk more than men

The question: Studies have long suggested that the average woman speaks about 20,000 words a day. The average man, on the other hand, hovers closer to 7,000. That means in one year, a Chatty Cathy could wind up speaking 4.7 million more words than a member of the quieter sex, or the rough equivalent of narrating War and Peace in its entirety... eight times. The reason for this has long been unclear to scientists, and it's why a team of researchers at the University of Maryland sought to find a biological underpinning for why women tend to have a natural gift for gab. Their question: What makes women more talkative than men?

How it was tested: A team of neuroscientists and psychologists, led by Margaret McCarthy, studied rats to identify a protein called Foxp2, which was found to be associated with vocalization. Male rats, for example, tended to have more of this protein in their brains than females, and when scientists reduced the protein's rate of production, the baby males were far less squeaky (and were given less attention from their mothers). The next step was to see if the same was true for humans. Researchers tested 10 children between the ages of three and five to see what their Foxp2 protein levels were.

The result: Compared to young boys, the girls had 30 percent more of the Foxp2 protein in a "brain area key to language in humans," says The Telegraph. A correlation seems clear. Among rats, males are more talkative and have more of this protein. Among humans, girls are more talkative and have more of this protein in key language areas of the brain.

What the experts say: "Based on our observations, we postulate higher levels of Foxp2 in girls and higher levels of Foxp2 in male rats is an indication that Foxp2 protein levels are associated with the more communicative sex," said McCarthy. Of course, that doesn't mean women arealways more talkative than men. "We can't say that this is the end-all-be-all reasoning," researcher Mike Bowers told Today, "but it is one of the first avenues with which we can start to explore why women tend to be more verbal than men."

Language & communication

Today I will share the difference between language and communication ....

Communication is the process of sharing information between two or more persons. This can be verbally, through gestures or even body language. According to Borden, Harris, & Raphael

Language, according to Bloom and Owens, is a socially shared code that uses a conventional system of arbitrary symbols ( alphabet ) to represent ideas about the world that are meaningful to those who know the same code.

Globalization: What does it really mean? 

This video show some opinions about the meaning of globalization!

 

This picture represent the evolution of communication devices as a joke because imply the use of a bird as a way to communicate...

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