Hello language enthusiast,
There are over 7,000 languages spoken around the world today. They all have different sounds, vocabularies, spellings and structures but do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language - from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian that suggest the answer is a resounding yes.
A specific kind of language gives you an indept of how people in that culture or community think, behave and communicate amongs themself. It helps give you an idea of their background and their way of life, as well as understanding their culture and heritage. l personally think that languages are portals to a group of people and how they reason about the things of life. Languages are all about Understanding the expression of another man's internal world expressed through words.
Thinking about something start with thoughts, then words, concept and Imagery. Then it forms images and triggers emotion which then leads to taking action by responding or reacting. To me as a language enthusiast I find it fascinating that language learning can make one think in different ways or dimension, thereby expanding your own mind to assimilate much more you could ever withstand. Boroditsky says. "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000. The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is." This process is a very heighten state for a polyglot.
If languages shape the way we think then the advantages are something to be reckon with like; being able to multitask at work and home, to assimilate things faster, the brains neural pathway are more increased and functional. The risk of getting dementia Is very very low at old age. Like I said in one of my previous blog post, come and be Disified in my language school (VILA institute). Where we teach you foreign and local languages, offline and online.
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