Enhanced look at Language

The world is round and it bears billions of people separated by the lines imposed by man and by
waters that run between them. The billions of people around the world have made countries
their own and have separated themselves from one another and let divisions be made. The separated countries have different languages that are part of those countries. for example in India the people speak hindi, well thats the official language, there is a lot more languages that go around for each and every state of india but for the United States of America the language is english and in Spain it is spanish. So evidently given the examples you see different countries have different languages. However if countries could all speak a language there is a sense of unity despite the diversity. We has the human race all come together to speak a single global language that when aliens come on earth they know yeah thats their language. if aliens come one earth now, they go back confused as hell, trying to decipher all the languages, for all we know, they wouldn't even know its different languages. Under the umbrella of a single unified language, we the human race can come together and set aside our differences, we can appreciate one another, communicate to another and defiantly travel to other places without having to worry about speaking an entirely new language. A unified languages brings about simplicity and irons out all the wrinkles on the road. If humans spoke on language we wouldn't need the apps on the app store designed to make translations easy and faster and away with all the extra language classes and definitely no more human translators to translate anything during business conferences. In such cases diverse language although it would look good on earths resume, tends to be a barrier that obstructs convenience. We would gain an identity as a global race and sense of togetherness in how we interact with one another. However with major possible drawback is that lost sense of nationalism, the language that a country speaks is its pride and joy. That language is life to that country, it is the way they talk and communicate with one another. The implementation of a unified language would mean that countries would loose that sense of nationalism, pride and joy. It would mean countries to loose their language and earth loosing a sense of diversity. However much of a headache translation is, sometimes learning new languages seem to be an exciting feat and to some learn more languages is a content life. Therefore unified languages would indeed take tolls on certain aspects of nationalism and pride for an individual nation but would seek to bering the world as a whole, a world where people can communicate without barriers, one where they can feel and understand each other.

“The Miracle Worker” was a movie about Hellen Keller a girl who is blind and deaf and her teacher’s experience in teaching her language to come to know the world around her better. Watching Hellen Keller in the movie "The Miracle Worker" urged me to volunteer at the Kerala Blind School Society. The experience was defiantly different than that of everyday. The blind really use their other senses such as touch, sound and smell as ways of knowing whats around them. Reading brail and trying to read and understand what was said was really hard but the blind where able to read them like how we read letters and they were able to read sentences together making their reading quite fluent. They were even climbing trees based on their sense of touch and it was massively impressive how much you could actually do with touch. Another great aspect of the day was blind cricket where we would have to hit the ball with a bat based on the sound the b

all makes while rolling. Giving it a shot, the realisation came upon me that it was indeed a really hard challenge. Assessing Hellen Keller after this experience brought about the thought of the difficulty of life in her perspective. Language as a way of knowing the world around us became truly essential, as we humans have named object around us, it is essential to know them to, to understand the relation between an object and its word. Hellen found this difficult because she was deaf and blind which makes her absent to two fifth of her senses. Learning language for Hellen was an understanding that there was a whole world of things that existed around her, that there was a whole world a possibilities that engulfed her and learning language was a way that she could have possibly communicated to her parents through the use of sign language. Blind people generally use sound to understand the object as a name and it using that sound that they understand they put two an two together to make sense of things. Hellen on the other hand who was deaf and blind had to use the medium of sign language to understand that the object meant something and that it had a name, that the object stand for a thing. She had to use the medium of language to put the idea of an object together with a name to make sense of things. However what Hellen also demonstrated was that language although a primary way for us fully capable humans to communicate, was not the only way to communicate and there were other ways of conveying ideas such as sign language. Language as a way of know differs for different types of people as back in the time of cave men and women, language was probably not a way of knowing like it is today. Language is an essential way to know the world around us but perhaps in not the only way to know things around us.