"To know another language is to have a second soul" - Charlemagne, King of the Franks (742 - 814)
I'm thinking a lot about this at the moment. I'd be interested in other's opinions. Is another language just more words, or does it change us at the soul level?
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"To know another language is to have a second soul" - Charlemagne, King of the Franks (742 - 814)
I'm thinking a lot about this at the moment. I'd be interested in other's opinions. Is another language just more words, or does it change us at the soul level?
Not just words. Language is the very direction and essence of a particular culture. it is the very heart and energetic expression of a culture. The words, expressions are pointers to what lays closest to the heart of a culture. Learning that particular language not just scholarly expression but colloquial reveals to the learner the intricacies and subtleties of the collective, wisdom, sensibility and truths and secrets held within the soul of those people who speak that language.
Language is a direct expression of the heights and depths of introspective thought that a culture has been capable to explore. Also shaped by their reason, approach and understanding of life and how that wisdom translates into their living experience.
Language is a code. Code of unbroken tradition,a record of the entire journey from origins, from cultural primitiveness to present times. More languages you know more you are able to realize the beauty of each of them at different levels.
English and her sublime beauty is enhanced in my experience because of understandinof 3 other languages and vice versa.
Often the deepest feelings that I am familiar with have an expression in indian languages, simply because, that sensibility is purely cultural and may have no parallel. Similar with spiritual sensibility, falling back to Sanskrit and hindi expressions is easiest as there are infinite references to them and greatest of descriptive explanation available.
A Bulgarian friend mused that most of the terms and concepts he came across as a spiritual seeker mostly Sanskrit and some English, have no word in his native language. Very telling statement.
As learner of welsh language, I have come to understand the mind of welsh folks. Knowing a language is getting to grips with the unique experience of that particular populace.
Earlier I had 'hunches' about welsh people, their character, their habits now as I learn cymraeg, i have found a solid explanation behind those traits, fascinating stuff.
I am about to embark on learning Sanskrit too, My love of languages has come after a brief sleep.
Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg, hefyd. Mae'n anodd, ond yn ddiddorol iawn a boddhaol.
Lately I've been wondering how to create a "spiritual" language. As far as I can tell all the languages in use today are based on materialism.
The more that I think of spirit or try to develop a mental understanding of life the more I hit a brick wall, because all the spiritual concepts are described using materialistic language and it doesn't seem to fit.