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RE: Punched in the Gut, Kicked in the Back, but I'm Still Standing (Many words followed by a Celtic singer)

in #life7 years ago

That's absolutely beautiful. English is so course in comparison to so many other languages (with a couple European exceptions ;)
Alas I am an undereducated American. And I don't mean a 'highschool dropout', in fact I even went to college, but nowhere, except perhaps fancy private schools for the elite, do they put any emphasis on learning a second language. What they have us take in high school is two years of french or spanish where we basically learn nouns like Gato and Perro and how to count. Really, really lame. And honestly? Arrogant. Like our leaders expect the whole world to learn this language therefore we don't really need to learn others.
Super unfortunate. And I'm always impressed by people who can speak more than one.

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Bilingualism (ability to speak and understand two languages) or multilingualism (ability to speak and understand more than two languages) is really a blessing. For instance, it would be difficult for us to communicate effectively if the only language I understand is my native language (Yoruba language). I'd not be able to gain some ideas and knowledge from you and vice versa.

Or perhaps, in a situation where some group of people are planning something bad about another person in another language, the action will be executed successfully if the person doesn't understand that second language.

Language really shapes our life.

#OWB

nira ṣugbọn ṣee ṣe :)

Thanks to google translate-- I have a friend on here, @jlufer, he knows very little English as I know very little Spanish, and yet we manage to communicate quite well with that handy little language translating google tool.

(P.S. I appreciate your thoroughness, though I certainly know what bilingual and multilingual is, despite that I am not either of those things. I excel at the one language I do know, my English vocabulary is vast lol--I am a writer/novelist after all.)

Hahaha
That is brilliant of you. I hope you used the audio feature to listen to how it sounded? :)

Google translate is quite effective to interpret languages. I use it once in a while too.