Learning a language can be great fun because alot of reasons. Firstly bla bla bla this build up is boring me now. I will just jump right into it
So living in Berlin and being around Germans has taught me much already. Firstly they are quite proud of their language and they connect with it on a different level than most Pakistanis do with theirs. Not only that apparently anyone who comes into direct contact with Germans and the language gets affected by it pretty hard. Case in point are three people two from England and one from Ukraine. Because these three people have lived in Germany for quite sometime they have adopted German as pretty much their own language. I can see that because when sometimes even they are speaking their own language( or any other language) the "fillers" in their sentences are often German. This amazes me because they feel there are no words in other languages that would fully explain that thought. As I like to call it. They have become one with the language :)
In other news I was talking to a friend and I told him/her that I think I have full proficiency over the English language because there are no feelings or ideas that I can think and not express in English. and just when I said it I knew I had struck some chord with nature. I mean how is it that all the thoughts I can think can be expressed by words. I mean cant I think or more importantly feel anything for which I have no words? This forces me to ask the question that could it be that words don't follow feelings and that in essence feelings follow words.?
I can only wonder if I were to learn another language will I start having more feelings to express only because that language will have a word for it?
So living in Berlin and being around Germans has taught me much already. Firstly they are quite proud of their language and they connect with it on a different level than most Pakistanis do with theirs. Not only that apparently anyone who comes into direct contact with Germans and the language gets affected by it pretty hard. Case in point are three people two from England and one from Ukraine. Because these three people have lived in Germany for quite sometime they have adopted German as pretty much their own language. I can see that because when sometimes even they are speaking their own language( or any other language) the "fillers" in their sentences are often German. This amazes me because they feel there are no words in other languages that would fully explain that thought. As I like to call it. They have become one with the language :)
In other news I was talking to a friend and I told him/her that I think I have full proficiency over the English language because there are no feelings or ideas that I can think and not express in English. and just when I said it I knew I had struck some chord with nature. I mean how is it that all the thoughts I can think can be expressed by words. I mean cant I think or more importantly feel anything for which I have no words? This forces me to ask the question that could it be that words don't follow feelings and that in essence feelings follow words.?
I can only wonder if I were to learn another language will I start having more feelings to express only because that language will have a word for it?
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