How native speakers pronounce “languages”

You'd think it would be otherwise, but it isn't. At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities. At the bottom are the arts. Everywhere on earth.

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So for me, it's I want to take the Spanish class because I love learning languages. For you, it might be football team,

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multiple jobs and ultimately learned 18 languages as a diplomat and the father of French folklore

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to really, truly level the playing field. It's two languages, signed and spoken,

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And a couple more years, they were able to translate across all the major languages. So I'm going to be using the symbol on the right

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I found many beautiful aspects of having two different languages amongst partners, but also quite a few challenges

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This is what I'm going to answer for you today. I speak six languages, and I focus my studies in linguistics.

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The first challenge I'd like to share with you today is how different languages carry different emotional weights for people. What does that mean?

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There's also the global status of the language in use amongst partners. Now global player languages like English, Spanish, Mandarin, they are viewed as superior in comparison to lesser-spoken languages.

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Now global player languages like English, Spanish, Mandarin, they are viewed as superior in comparison to lesser-spoken languages. So couples naturally gravitate towards them.

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And I think it's pretty apparent: dealing with two different languages here is tricky. You might be asking yourself right now, so what's the solution?

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Your microculture is your perfect blend of both your cultures, your habits, your traditions and your languages. So build your love language.

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Invent new words that don't exist. Switch between your languages as much as possible. Define your own humor.

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And work towards an equal power dynamic. Give each other chances to grow in each other's languages and countries. What I want you to take away today

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is to make sure that the entire world's data, all of our history, all of our languages are represented, all of the culture,

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Understanding images, translating languages, transcribing speech,

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and really think about what they already do. They communicate in our languages. They see what we see.

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Now of course, there isn't just one language in the world, there are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world. And all the languages differ from one another in all kinds of ways.

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there are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world. And all the languages differ from one another in all kinds of ways. Some languages have different sounds,

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And all the languages differ from one another in all kinds of ways. Some languages have different sounds, they have different vocabularies,

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if you didn't know which way you were going. In fact, people who speak languages like this stay oriented really well. They stay oriented better than we used to think humans could.

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So let's just say the accuracy in this room was not very high. This is a big difference in cognitive ability across languages, right? Where one group -- very distinguished group like you guys --

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A little linguistic trick. Well, some languages don't do this, because some languages don't have exact number words.

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Well, some languages don't do this, because some languages don't have exact number words. They're languages that don't have a word like "seven"

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because some languages don't have exact number words. They're languages that don't have a word like "seven" or a word like "eight."

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or a word like "eight." In fact, people who speak these languages don't count, and they have trouble keeping track of exact quantities.

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But folks who don't have that linguistic trick can't do that. Languages also differ in how they divide up the color spectrum -- the visual world.

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the visual world. Some languages have lots of words for colors, some have only a couple words, "light" and "dark."

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some have only a couple words, "light" and "dark." And languages differ in where they put boundaries between colors. So, for example, in English, there's a word for blue

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because nothing is categorically changing. Languages have all kinds of structural quirks. This is one of my favorites.

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This is one of my favorites. Lots of languages have grammatical gender; every noun gets assigned a gender, often masculine or feminine.

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every noun gets assigned a gender, often masculine or feminine. And these genders differ across languages. So, for example, the sun is feminine in German but masculine in Spanish,

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(Laughter) Languages also differ in how they describe events, right? You take an event like this, an accident.

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"I broke my arm." Now, in lots of languages, you couldn't use that construction unless you are a lunatic

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Now, this has consequences. So, people who speak different languages will pay attention to different things, depending on what their language usually requires them to do.

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Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000 -- there are 7,000 languages spoken around the world. And we can create many more --

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And we can create many more -- languages, of course, are living things, things that we can hone and change to suit our needs.

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and by some estimates, half of the world's languages will be gone in the next hundred years. And the even worse news is that right now,

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I want to leave you with this final thought. I've told you about how speakers of different languages think differently, but of course, that's not about how people elsewhere think.

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Arabic is the mother tongue. Research says that mastery of other languages demands mastery of the mother tongue. is a prerequisite for creative expression in other languages.

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Research says that mastery of other languages demands mastery of the mother tongue. is a prerequisite for creative expression in other languages. How?

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