Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 3:13
Learning languages destroys your sense of self and replaces it with something more universal
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What learning languages did for me is it allowed me to immerse in multiple cultures around the world, specifically with cultures who accepted me as part of their own communities and taught me minor little intricacies of their culture in their language. The moment I learned someone's language, my identity as a Gujarati Indian woman blended into that of Japanese women based in Fukuoka, Japan. And something similar happened while learning Russian. Something similar is happening while learning Korean
The last thing I would think to describe you is as what was it? Pompous or needing to grow up. The last things I would think to describe you. Do you know what I think is that it's probably true on both ends of this question, I guess you could say in that, okay, I'm just blown away first by the number of languages that you have learned and that you are learning
And sometimes you hear marriages where the spouses are both from different cultures and races and all of that and they look like a mismatched couple and you wonder what is the common ground they find with each other? But that's exactly what it is. All birds of a feather don't always have to flock together. You need broadened horizons and an open mindset to recognize that the other person deep down is exactly the same as you are. That's what makes humans eternally bonded
In terms of my social behavior, I'd like to be like ex in terms of shunning marriage and being individualistic and being okay with any kind of life events happening out of order, like having kids, not necessarily being with that person, but raising the child together and then marrying someone else totally
And yeah, it has set me thinking about language, but I know it's so hard to learn a language that I don't think I'm going to start learning one, but listening to the number of languages that you know wow. Totally, totally impressive. Bye. Bye
And in my opinion, every time one learns a new language, it kind of opens them up to a new culture and makes them respect not just the language, but the cultural and the spiritual wealth behind it. So I would definitely say learning a language is an experience that broadens our horizons, for sure. And to be honest, it is not just about the language per se
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 0:44
Fair enough. I am not really referring to the nuances and complexities of knowledge of language. What I was specifically referring to is what happens when languages demystify a lot of the connotations and you realize that something that was intrinsically part of your culture is not exactly intrinsically part of your culture. That's what I meant. Yeah, and I don't think that's a bad thing, to be honest. So I'm going to let it run its course as it is. Thank you so much for sharing
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:07
When you have two incredibly mismatched people, either via demographics or via personalities alone, they get married and somehow things just work out perfectly because there is more to a person than just this thing that we have been, I suppose, coded with, right, ever since birth. It's like, do this, do that. This is you, this is you. There's something beyond it. Whether we like to admit it or not, it's there
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 5:00
ABCDE comes from these sounds, right? Fayhu uru zuri, ranusraido s words, s sounds, Yanza English API. Though it began with sounds, then pura specific sounds just right. People made multiple alphabets, which they then, depending on what area you went into, they combined into different permutations and combinations and came up with their own language. Same cheese Kanipe. I think language developed
Binati Sheth
@Binati_Sheth · 2:49
And then I try to respond to it in Language B because of the way I struggle to comprehend context in Language A, my solution finding abilities are much stronger in A because I'm not distracted by things like ari, context, Kia and Unskah. I'm focused on the solution because I'm in that language for thinking mode, whereas if I pick Language B, which is like Roskai, though, you make those mistakes very casually because you don't even see them as mistakes
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