I took 3 years of Spanish in High School, enough to be conversational. Just never used it.
But I, too, think students should learn a different language — because it teaches you that language influences your way of seeing the world. It upgrades your brain.
Yes! That’s another great part of learning a new language - you can see things differently through different languages. One reason (among many others) for this is that there are often words in each language that don’t have a direct translation in any other language.
Do you know how long it took me to get Word to default to UK dictionary?
I’m curious?!
Two hours! Mind you to be fair it made it easier when I had to switch to Icelandic for a pony character.
My gosh! That’s crazy. Was the internet unhelpful, or were you just trying to figure it out yourself?
I took 3 years of Spanish in High School, enough to be conversational. Just never used it.
But I, too, think students should learn a different language — because it teaches you that language influences your way of seeing the world. It upgrades your brain.
Yes! That’s another great part of learning a new language - you can see things differently through different languages. One reason (among many others) for this is that there are often words in each language that don’t have a direct translation in any other language.
Here is a scholarly article that I found fascinating on the way language influences the way we think: https://open.substack.com/pub/chaeilay/p/historical-linguistics-how-ancient-841?r=heb1q&utm_medium=ios
Isn’t Dilay’s work the best?!
Truly