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How do languages make human unique? French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher François-Marie Arouet (1694 – 1778) outlined a pretty prophetic vision. “If you know many languages, then you have many keys for a castle.” Our willingness to engage with languages and everything they offer is clear; our readiness to grow, to transmute, and to capture experiences is clear. Research results have shown the amazing effects of multilingualism, including improving our decision-making efficiency and preventing the suffering from dementia. Besides, what happens to your face when you speak another language tells a hundred stories. Language can transport people, so that we are no longer simply audiences but participants in the realization of a bigger, better world that we seek to create. We take the shelter in the embrace of foreign languages and diverse cultures. On the other hand, learning a foreign language could be intensely irritating and frustrating. However, only when we open up to be more accepting and make the learning process more motivating, can dreams become reality. We can be at an unusual loss for words due to the indescribable beauty of languages, which allows everyone to be heard and appreciates everyone’s work. Ladies and gentleman, our host Kevin Hsu, a researcher at the National Health Research Institutes, will take you by surprise with this discussion. Welcome to join us in savoring every mouthful of language learning.
Language learning is like making a pizza the size of the sun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfIc5CX7mF4 Canadian-American cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. About the language instinct, he informs us that “Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language.” Yes. Everyone is a language superhero. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJjzCBRMaso When do you know you are in a blossoming garden with the bright scented flowers of the foreign language you are learning? When you compose everything in this language and make it sound exactly like music. When you feel the author silently shares the secret jokes with you. When you smile, and say, “Yes. Only in this language!” http://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/How-long-does-it-take-to-learn-a-foreign-language.pdf I know, I know, British and Dutch researchers are revealing that alcohol can help develop our speaking proficiency of foreign languages. No worries. In case you are allergic to alcohol, the alternative way is allowing people to say your accent is ugly, and then you have the opportunity to make it beautiful. “Sì, grazie.” How, you are asking? Well, the fun ways can be effectively using TV shows and films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emMKQu1usZ0 , deploying apps daily https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/five-free-apps-help-learn-foreign-language/ , and any other methods we can’t wait to learn from you.