Up@dawn 2.0

Monday, June 24, 2019

Why do we think as we do?

How does the language we speak reflect our identity?

One of the homework questions was about the number of languages spoken on earth.

Here is an interesting TED talk about languages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKK7wGAYP6k


2 comments:

  1. If I could have one superpower, I think multilingual fluency would be it. I'm so envious of people who can move smoothly between languages, hence cultures and concepts and (indeed) different nuances of meaning. "The limits of my language are the limits of my world," indeed.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. It's George Orwell's b'day (Tuesday 25th). He said "Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."

      Delete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.