Whorfian hypothesis - language influences thinking
native language helps us determine computational costs of different cognitive processes, and it influences ways of thinking - ex international students convert thoughts from native language into English and then share it
more camel names, rice names - thought influenced language in this case
languages have different sounds, vocabularies, structures
aboriginal community in Australia donât have left and right in their language, they use cardinal directions in their everyday communication
cognitive ability across languages changes
time is locked on landscape
number trick - 8 penguins not all languages have translation of numbers
languages differ in dividing color spectrum as well - lots in some , others have just âlightâ & âdarkâ, ex - Russians have separate terms of differentiating differ colors, when analyzed they are faster in differentiating colors compared to others
surprised reaction in brain as color changes from light to dark color shift - categorical shift , no such brain activity for native English speakers
structural quirks - sun masculine in India, feminine in German, it impacts how they describe things ( day-to-day interactions, poetry, song writing etc.)
people pay attention to different things based on how their language shapes them - (English focusing on who did it, Spanish focusing on the event ) â language guides reasoning
basic perceptual decisions, we make them every moment , languages slightly tweak the final decision
linguistic diversity reveals how flexible our human mind is
As a trilingual, you watch movies from three different countries, read books from three different languages, learn cultures of three origins, and forge relationships with from diverse cultures. Indeed, when you learn a new language, you acquire a new reality of something different, or a soul. Knowing more than one or two languages also helps you understand the history of humanity and how some cultures and people act and think in different ways.