We began the class talking about our ancestors and the different languages that we each had. Also, we were asked if any of those languages we have in our family were languages we wanted to learn. I thought about the above two topics and felt almost bad because I know that I have quite a few different languages and some of them my grandparents spoke fluently such as French but I find I do not have a desire for those languages as I should but I want to learn other languages such as Japanese and more Spanish and ASL and Persian. I have no idea why I want to learn these languages except that I recognize the benefits of knowing them and also because they are so different than my own native language.
Jodi gave her presentation and I thought that she did a really nice job explaining dialects and how important they are when considering communication in a foreign language. I found it interesting that I did not know many of the different idioms Jodi presented.
We then played a game that was a tiny bit confusing to me but it did help me comprehend the different terms. In fact I had no idea what my term was and I looked in my book and I had skimmed right over the term without highlighting it. I was lucky to find the one term that I did not familiarize myself with.
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I find myself in pretty much the same situation as you are when you mentioned your choice of learning foreign languages. Since languages to some extent help shape reality and perception, i think we have more to discover and experience and can even learn another way to reason and perceive things when we study languages that are different from own native language.
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