If you only speak one language, you might assume that other languages are more or less like codes. You just swap some words for others, and change the order around a little bit, and “voila!”
In fact, it’s not like that at all. Every language has its own assumptions, and normally close ties to the culture from which it comes.
Learning a language means we can learn to challenge our way of thinking, to think in a different way. The things we assumed which were previously obscured now start to become prominent.
As we go deeper, we start to realize that people speak a certain way because people’s souls are a certain way. To truly understand, we must immerse ourselves. These things don’t come from a classroom, from a textbook. We can’t be methodically schooled on the deepest parts of our being. But perhaps some hidden aspect of Self will be revealed when we learn a language.
Read the transcript and find important links on the site: A Beautiful Thought - Learn a Language: Episode 401
