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The cultural differences Mind Your Language focused on the story of Mr.

Brown, a
somehow unlucky teacher selected to teach English as a Foreign Language to a jumble foreign
students in London. The show draws its humor from the student's comical misunderstandings of
the English language, which refer in great part to the cultural stereotypes of each student's nation.
Students are basically from China, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy,
Japan, Pakistan Spain and Sweden. They represented all walks of life and social backgrounds,
from embassy employees to bartenders and au pairs.
Seeing the program, we can even learn the tradition and lifestyle of the British. Everyone
have done a great job. The dialog are witty and the show keep you asking for more.
The show teaches how a country can unite with the language of Love and Passion. With
many different cultural difference coming together still people can live with harmony and peace.
Also, this show touches your heart with its light hearted comedy which takes on multi
culturalism which makes you laugh out loudly hearing the way each one try to pronounce the
English words as they say English is a Funny Language so Mind Your Language.

Define Language:
According to Oxford Dictionary, language is a system of communication in speech and
writing used by people in a particular country. Language is important because it is used to
express the thought, feeling, and idea. By using the language, people can communicate each
other. The common way to communicate are by speaking. Speaking is an interactive process of
constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information (Brown,
1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997).
Most people in this world often do communication by speaking, not writing. Speaking is
the simple way to communicate because people do not need to write. Although speaking is the
simple way to communicate, it has possibility to create ambiguity. Ambiguity to Crystal
(1988;15) is the reference to a word or sentence which expresses more than one meaning and this
reference has to do with linguistics. Another definition of ambiguity is forwarded by Hartmann
and Stork (1976;11) who state that ambiguity is a construction which admits more than one
interpretation. Thus, ambiguity is the utterance which has more than one meaning. There are two
kinds of ambiguity; lexical and structural. As a result, there is problem in communication. There
will be misunderstanding between the speaker and the hearer.

In relation with the explanation of ambiguity, this study is purposed to to find out how
ambiguity that exist in Mind Your Language video under the title The Best Thing In Life. Mind
Your Language is the video created by English people that contains joke. The setting of the video
is in London college where the students are foreigner. They come from different country which
has different language.
The writer made herself as the key instrument that collected the data of Mind Your
Language video. She uses the script of the video, and also supported by the video itself. From the
study, the writer finds that there are ambiguity in the video. The next researcher, especially in the
same field should be able to look out deeper in the object of the study to make a better
perception.

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