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This article doesn't really go into what the title suggests so much as it explains that we prefer languages for different reasons. The author talks about severa
by two2two 10y ago
This article doesn't really go into what the title suggests so much as it explains that we prefer languages for different reasons. The author talks about several of her students that chose not to use their native language to write because of their negative associations with the language.
"For me, language was a kind of initiation into multiple realities."
This is how I feel about learning a second language. I feel that I'm opening a door to a land of adventure that had previously been closed.
- ommunist 10y agoYou are very right. After learning the third, you start to feel a glimpse of some more universal structure in your brain, that pinpoints meaning to expression in languages you know. So you can tell "this cant be said in English, it is too Spanish", or something like that. And it is very useful to learn at least one Eastern Asian language with non-latin script, to get full experience of this kind. Your own depths are unfathomable, and every language pulls the cover, unraveling the abyss of your own mind.
- dmingoddd 10y agoDo you know a substantail number of Indians speak atleast 3 languages. 1st is their regional language where they were born, another is Hindi and the third is English. And it's not considered out of the ordinary at all..
- ommunist 10y agoThis may well be the reason of the very fact that India has more kids with IQ>120 than the U.S. has all kids combined.
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- mamon 10y agoMaybe what you're saying is true, but I work for an Indian IT consulting company in Europe and from my experience Indians with IQ > 120 (or even > 100) are extremely hard to come by.
- zardo 10y agoOne company probably isn't a very good sample. Why are you giving IQ tests?
- franciscop 10y agoIQ is ortoganal to education; a person with high IQ with a good round education will probably excel while two people with no education or an education that lacks certain aspect will probably not be so different.
- lacampbell 10y ago> And it is very useful to learn at least one Eastern Asian language with non-latin script, to get full experience of this kind. I find learning Han characters the height of tedium. I'll happily deal with any non-latin phonetic alphabet - but logograms do my head in. There's very little insight to be gained there IMO.