The Green Eyed Monster.
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The Green Eyed Monster - Critical Essay When studying a new language, the curriculum involves more than just reading a textbook and listening to your instructor - you must hear yourself speak, feel the sound as your mouth struggles to create it, at the same time programming your brain to associate a meaning for it. Only when you hear the pronunciation and tones can you recognize where you need improvement and adjustment. Not only are you learning a new way to articulate concepts, you are increasing your knowledge of those concepts by articulating them in a new way. Our own native languages can serve a similar purpose. To many, language in the form of debate is a "foreign" use for words we use everyday, but debate gives us an extraordinary gift: an opportunity to re-evaluate the purpose of language and improve how we use it. Merely speaking a...

