American Youth Slangs and Their Equivalents in Kazakh and Russian
INTRODUCTION
The actuality: Nowadays English is worth not just knowing but it is worth really knowing. We do not live behind the "iron curtain" any more. There is a great importance to understand up-to-date English. English is the chief language of international business and academic conferences, and the leading language of international tourism. English is the main language of popular music, advertising, home computers and video games. Most of the scientific, technological and academic information in the world is expressed in English. International communication expends very fast. The English language becomes the means of international communication, the language of trade, education, politics, and economics. People have to communicate with each other. It is very important for them to understand foreigners and be understood by them. In this case the English language comes to be one but very serious problem. A word comes to be a very powerful means of communication but also can be a cause of a great misunderstanding if it is not clearly understood by one of the speakers. The understanding of the native speakers ' language is the international problem for our students. Our secondary schools teach the students only the bases of the English language. Our universities do not prepare them to the American streets, accommodations, pubs where American teenagers use their own language, the language that differs from that of their parents. They use other words; they use slang. None of the most advanced and flexible ways of teaching English of any country can catch modern quickly developing English. But our educational system is at the very end. Now it is well known that none of the Americans speak English we study. Some scholars divide the English language into two different languages: the Standard English language and slang. This fact proves that slang comes to be a very numerous part of English. Slang covers a lot of drawbacks of the English language and it
The actuality: Nowadays English is worth not just knowing but it is worth really knowing. We do not live behind the "iron curtain" any more. There is a great importance to understand up-to-date English. English is the chief language of international business and academic conferences, and the leading language of international tourism. English is the main language of popular music, advertising, home computers and video games. Most of the scientific, technological and academic information in the world is expressed in English. International communication expends very fast. The English language becomes the means of international communication, the language of trade, education, politics, and economics. People have to communicate with each other. It is very important for them to understand foreigners and be understood by them. In this case the English language comes to be one but very serious problem. A word comes to be a very powerful means of communication but also can be a cause of a great misunderstanding if it is not clearly understood by one of the speakers. The understanding of the native speakers ' language is the international problem for our students. Our secondary schools teach the students only the bases of the English language. Our universities do not prepare them to the American streets, accommodations, pubs where American teenagers use their own language, the language that differs from that of their parents. They use other words; they use slang. None of the most advanced and flexible ways of teaching English of any country can catch modern quickly developing English. But our educational system is at the very end. Now it is well known that none of the Americans speak English we study. Some scholars divide the English language into two different languages: the Standard English language and slang. This fact proves that slang comes to be a very numerous part of English. Slang covers a lot of drawbacks of the English language and it
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