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The language
I'm speaking right now is on its way to becoming the world's universal language for better or for worse
Let's face it
It's the language of the internet
It's the language of finance is the language of air
Traffic control of popular music diplomacy
English is everywhere now mandarin chinese is spoken by more people but more chinese people are learning english
Than english speakers are learning chinese
Last i heard there are two dozen universities in china
Now teachachall in english
English is taking over and in addition to that
It's been predicted at the end of the century
Almost all of the languages that exist now theyabout six thousand and will no longer be spoken
There will only be some hundreds left and on top of that it's at the point
Where instant translation of live speech is not only possible
But it gets better every year the reason i'm recciting those things to use
Because i can tell that we're getting to the point
Where our question is going to start being asked
Which is why should we learn foreign languages
Other than if english happens to be foreign to one
Why bother to learn another one
When it's getting to the point
Where almost everybody in the point will be able to communicate in one 对不对
I think there are a lot of reasons
But i first want to address the one that you're probably most likely to have heard of
Because actually it's more dangerous than you might think
And that is the idea that a language channels
Your thoughts that the vocabulary and the grammar of different languages gives everybody a different kind of acid triit so to speak that is a marvelously entiing idea
But it's kind of fraud
So it's not that untrue completely so for example ple in french and spanish
The word for table is for reasreasmarmarked fefemine so law
Thablu law mesa
You just have to deal with it
It has been shown that if you are a speaker of one of those languages
And you happen to be asked
How you would imagine a table talking
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Then much more often than could possibly be an accident
A french your spanish speaker says that the table would talk with a high and feminine voice
So if
If you're french your spanish to you a table is tell you a girl
It's opposed to if you are in english speaker
It's hard not to love data like that
And many people will tell you that
That means that there's a world view that you have if you speak one of those languages
But have to watch out
Because imagine if somebody put us under the microscope for us
Being those of us
Who speak english natively
What is the world view from english
So for example
Let's take an english speaker up on the screen
That is
Is bono
He speaks english
I presume he has a world view
Now that is donalald trump in his way
He speaks english as well
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谢谢
And here is miss katdasian
And she is an english speaker too
So here are three speakers of the english language
What world view do those three people have in common
What world view is shaped through the english language
That unites them
It's a highly fraught conconcept
It's a hidual consensus
Is becoming that language can shape thought
But it tends to be in rather darling obscure psychological floodts
It's not a matter of giving you a different pair of glasses on the world
Now if that's the case
Then why learn languages
If it isn't going to change the way
You think what would the other reasons be there are some one of them meets that
If you want to imbibe a culture
If you want to drink it in
If you want to become part of it
Then whether or not the language channels the culture
And that seems doubtful
If you want to inviite the culture
You have to control to some degree the language
That the culture happens to be conducted it
There's no other way
There's an interesting illustration of this
I have to go slightly obscure
But really you should seek it out
There's a movie by the canadian film director dennis outon read out in english on the page
Dennis arcan't if you want to look him out
He did a film called jesus of montreal
And many of the characters are vibrant
Funny
Passionate
Interesting
French
Canadian french speaking women
There's one scene closest to the end
Where they have to take a friend to an angela phone hospital in the hospital
They have to speak english
Now they they speak english
But it's not their native english
And they rather not speak english
And they speak it more slily they have accenence that not idiomatic suddenly
These characters that you fall in love with become hosks of themselves
Their the shadows of themselves to go into a culture
Until only ever process ss people through that kind of scrim curtain is to never truly get the culture
And so the extent ent hundreds of languages will be left one reason to learn them is because they are tickets to being able to participate in the culture of the people who speak them just by virtue with the fact that it is their code
So that's one reason 没有我没有second reason
It's been shown that if you speak two languages
Dementia is less likely to set in
And that you are probably a better multi task er and these are factors that set in early
And so that out to give you some sense of when to give junior or junior app lessons in another language by lingalism is healthy
And then third languages are just an awful lot of fun
Much more fun than we're often told
So for example
Arabic kattaaba he wrote yachtobooo
He writes
She writes wookdob right in the imperative
What do those things haven't common
All of those things have in common
The consendence sitting in mimiddle pillers they stay still
And the values dance around the consendence
Who wouldn't want to roll that around in their mouse
You can get that from he brew
You can get that from ethopbias main language arm hurich that's fun or langues have different word orders learning how to speak with different word order is like driving on the different side of the street
If you go to a certain country or the feeling that you get
When you put which hazle around your eyes
And you feel the tingle
A language can do that to you
So for example
The cat in the hat comes back a book
That i'm sure
We all often return to like mobile dit one one phrase in it is do you know where i found him did you know where he was
He was eating cake in the tug
Yes
He was fine
Now if you learned that a manda in chinese
Then you have to master
You can know i did where him fine
He was tug inside gorging cake
No mistake
Gorging chewing that just feels good imagine being able to do that for years and years at a time
Or have you ever learned any cambodian
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Me either
But if i did
I would get to roll around in my mouth
Not some bakers
Dozen of values like england has but a good thirty different valuls sscooching and oozing around in the cambodian mouth like bees in a hive
That is what a language can get
You 对不对
And more to the point we live in an error
When it's never been easier to teach yourself another language
It used to be
That you had to go to clclass room
And there would be some diligent teacher
Some genius teacher in there
But that person was only in there at certain times
And then you had to go them
And then was not most times
You had to go to clthere
But didn't have that you had something called a record
I cut my teeth on those there was only ever so much data on a record or a casset
Or even that anteee object known as a cd of the
And that you had books
That didn't work
That's in the way
It was today you can lay down
Lie on your living room
Floor
Shipping
Burbon
And teach yourself any language that you want to with wonderful sets such as roseat a stone
I highly recommend the lessor known glsica as well you can do it any time
Therefore you can do it more and better
You can give yourself your morning pleasures in various languages
I take some deilbert in various languages
Every single morning
It can increase your skills couldn't have done it twenty years ago
When the idea of having any language you wanted in your pocket
Coming from your phone
Would have sounded like science fiction to very sophisticated people
So i highly recommend that you teach yourself language es other than the one that i'm speaking
Because there's never been a better time to do it
It's an awful lot of fun
It won't change your mind
But it will most certainly blow your mind
Thank you very much
