A systematic means of
by the use of
The cognitive processes involved in producing and
linguistic communication. A system of words
used to name things in a
particular discipline. The mental faculty or power of vocal communication. Communication by word of
is the Single Greatest Human Invention of all time.
Learning a New Language
Language and Thought
seeks to understand the way language represents reality.
Major topics in philosophy of language include: the nature of meaning,
intentionality, reference, the constitution of sentences, learning, and
The tool of Language
gave us the ability to transfer information
and knowledge to ourselves and to others. It was the first form
of wireless communication. But it took thousands of years for
humans to master language and to improve language in order to make
communication more effectively and more efficiently. And now
with the invention of computers and the
, and the
, more people are using language to transfer information
and knowledge then any other time in human history. But
even though we use language to communicate and transfer
information and knowledge every single day, 98% of people don't
understand what knowledge and information is. And this lack of
understanding is the single greatest source for most of our
problems. If people fully understood what they were transmitting
to themselves and to others, they would be a lot more careful,
and more aware of what they think
, and also be careful about
. People would then have more control, more power, more
intelligence, more freedom, more potential, and more
possibilities. Our full understanding of knowledge and
information is the next big human transformation.
"Without a language to describe our experience, we can't
communicate what we know.
learn from your senses and experiences
, but only so much,
80% of knowledge and intelligence is delivered using language."
communicating and languages are very important
to have. If you do not become
in these skills you will find it very difficult
with other people, as well as, find it very difficult to
communicate with yourself. For one of the most important things you will
learn about language is that it is also used to communicate inward as well
as outward. So learning to read, write and communicate at a high level of
proficiency is extremely important. These Skills open the doors of
opportunity in all directions, doors that will normally not be visible
unless you are a very good reader, writer and communicator.
If you didn't have the words to describe something, then how would you understand it?
Only about 2,400 of the world's roughly
7,200 Languages and Dialects
have writing systems.
List of Languages by total number of Speakers
List of Languages by number of Native Speakers
Indo-European Language Family Tree
for Language, Interaction, and Culture
MIT Language Universal ties all languages together
Endangered Languages – The Alliance for Linguistic Diversity
The Rapidly Changing Language of American English
Interview with William Labov, Professor of Linguistics at University of
Pennsylvania and author of Dialect. David discusses the various and
changing dialects and accents spoken in American English, and the
political and economic factors in those 15 dialects.
did our ancestors develop the very first language
ProjectLearning to Speak
Phrase Structure Rules
Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
documentation, maintenance, preservation, and revitalization of
endangered languages worldwide through linguist-aided,
community-driven multi-media language documentation projects.
Over 800 languages are spoken in
Papua New Guinea
, a country of about six million people.
in Different Tongues: Languages and the Way We Think
Why is the
Why is learning the
better for Brain development?
Philosophy of Language
Interagency Language Roundtable
Global Language System
List of Constructed Languages
Specific Language Impairment
Speech Language Pathology
Facebook Language Style Guides
Advanced technology to accelerate language
development of children 0-5
I love the English Language
List of English-Based Pidgins
is a human language I invented in 2001. It was my
attempt to understand the meaning of life in 120 words.
sensitivity to spoken
, the ability to
, and the capacity to use language to
. Relating to the scientific study
is a unit in phonology that determines syllable
weight, which in some languages determines stress or timing.
Department of Linguistics
as a LanguageCommunication
I don't like the Tone of your Voice
different tones (like in music
but not as many) will change the meaning of the words, even if the
pronunciation of the word is the same otherwise. a
could be different
depending on which syllable is stressed
) is the use of pitch in language to distinguish
lexical or grammatical meaning
verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic
information and to convey emphasis, contrast, and other such features in
what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish
words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels.
) is variation of spoken pitch that is not used
to distinguish words; instead it is used for a range of
as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the speaker, signalling the
difference between statements and questions, and between different types
of questions, focusing attention on important elements of the spoken
message and also helping to regulate conversational interaction.
5 techniques to speak any language: Sid Efromovich at
One way to effectively learn a language
is using the
language in interaction with others. Use language for a
purpose and learn to use the language in context.
is a method of teaching a second language
in which the learners’ second language (L2) is the medium of classroom
instruction. Through this method, learners study school subjects, such as
math, science, and social studies, in their L2. The main purpose of this
method is to foster bilingualism, in other words, to develop learners'
communicative competence or language proficiency in their L2 in addition
to their first or native language (L1). Additional goals are the cognitive
advantages to bilingualism.
the use of subject
matter as a vehicle for second or foreign language teaching/learning.
Learners are exposed to a considerable amount of language through
stimulating content. Learners explore interesting content and are engaged
in appropriate language-dependent activities. Languages are not learned
through direct instruction, but rather acquired "naturally" or
automatically. CBI supports contextualized learning; learners are taught
useful language that is embedded within relevant discourse contexts rather
than as isolated language fragments. Hence students make greater
connections with the language and what they already know. Complex
information is delivered through real life context for the students to
grasp well and leads to intrinsic motivation. In CBI information is
reiterated by strategically delivering information at right time and
situation compelling the Greater flexibility and adaptability in the
curriculum can be deployed as per the student's interest.
Communicate with a Non Native English Speaker
Defense Language Aptitude Battery
A new study reveals children's language development is a learnt skill and
is intricately linked to their ability to recognise patterns in their
Learning to Speak
is the process of dividing written text into
meaningful units, such as words, sentences, or topics. The term applies
both to mental processes used by humans when reading text, and to
artificial processes implemented in computers, which are the subject of
natural language processing. The problem is non-trivial, because while
some written languages have explicit word boundary markers, such as the
word spaces of written English and the distinctive initial, medial and
final letter shapes of Arabic, such signals are sometimes ambiguous and
not present in all written languages.
is one of the three aspects of prosody, along with stress
and intonation. Languages can be categorized according to whether they are
syllable-timed, mora-timed, or stress-timed.
Statistical Learning in Language Acquisition
Learning a New Language
Software for Self Teaching
Language Learning Library
Tinyworld: Connecting the world via Language Sharing
Private Language Lessons
How to Teach a Language
Language Learning Principle
Natural Language Processing
Chinese Made Easy
Russian Language Info-Graph
See Touch Learn
is a Free Language Development App
Visual Instruction Tool
Modern Language Aptitude Test
designed to predict a
student’s likelihood of success and
a foreign language.
Can knowing the corresponding letters and symbols of another language help you learn a new language?
(vocabulary, accent, grammar, pronunciation, slang)
Children learn quantifiers in the same order no matter what their language
, The existence of universal patterns in the language acquisition
process that do not always coincide with the linguistic universals,
according to which the world's languages are classified.
Benefits of Being Bilingual
several languages lower your vocabulary?
Is your ability to communicate effectively hindered when not
speaking your native language?
Children and Language
Second Language Acquisition
Skill-Based Theories of Second Language Acquisition
"People with a significant amount of
can also have the ability to learn aspects of language more
Speaking Multiple Languages
is the use of two or more languages, either by an individual speaker or by
a community of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers
outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half
of all Europeans claim to speak at least one other language in addition to
their mother tongue.
, Polyglot is the ability to master, or the state
of having mastered, multiple languages.
someone who is both a gifted and massive language accumulator. They
possess a particular neurology that's well-suited for learning languages
very quickly and being able to use them.Right Side
- Left Side of Brain
Test of English as a Foreign Language
Secondary Level English Proficiency Test
Educational Testing Service
Programming Language as a Second Language
There are over a billion people who are currently learning a
man wakes from coma speaking fluent Mandarin but had completely
Foreign Accent Syndrome
It's nice to be able to
communicate in more then one language, but what's more important
is that you are an effective communicator. So just don't learn a
new language for conversation, learn a new language to increase
your effectiveness to communicate. Just don't teach a new
language, teach effective ways to communicate.
Medium of Instruction
. The more you have, the more you can do.
Lera Boroditsky: How Language Shapes Thought
The Power of Words
Library Finder Sign Language
When you have
with more then one
definitions with more then one word, it's hard sometimes to be
understood in the way that you intended. Even people who speak the
same language sometimes need a
is the communication of the meaning of a
by means of an equivalent target-language text.
is the rendering of text from one language to
another one word at a time.
is oral translation of speech or
sign from a language into another. An interpreter
is a person who converts
a thought or expression in a source language into an expression with a
comparable meaning in a target language either simultaneously in "real
time" or consecutively when the speaker pauses after completing one or two
sentences. The interpreter's objective is to convey every semantic element
as well as tone and register and every intention and feeling of the
message that the source-language speaker is directing to target-language
recipients (except in summary interpretation, used sometimes in
is the discovery of the Meaning
texts written in obscure languages, which are almost always ancient.
So this is not just a
problem, this is also a
Should we have a universal procedure for translation?
Translation sometimes needs more then just a single translation.
Speak the word, and then the definition that you want to be heard.
I say something, then it's translated. (this is for complex translations,
this is not for simple answer translation)
Then the person receiving the translation needs
to confirm that what is being translated is understood.
Then it may need to be translated back in the
words that this particular language uses to explain what is
: Then I might have to use
different words to be translated. And this process continues
until a full understanding is accomplished.
Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems
is a text (sometimes oral) from which
information or ideas are derived. In translation, a source text is the
original text that is to be translated into another language.
enables the recognition and translation of spoken
language into text by computers and computerized devices such as those
categorized as smart technologies and robotics. It is also known as
"automatic speech recognition" (ASR), "computer speech recognition", or
just "speech to text" (STT).
in adult second language acquisition is
an attempt to explain non-target-like linguistic behavior that persists
even among highly advanced speakers. For adult second language learners,
acquiring grammatical properties within a given linguistic area, such as
phonology, syntax, or semantics, should not be problematic. Interfacing
between those modules, such as communicating between the syntax and
semantic systems, should likewise be feasible. However, grammatical
operations where the speaker is required to interface between an internal
component of the grammar, and an external component, such as pragmatics or
discourse information, will prove to be very difficult, and will not be
acquired completely by the second language learner, even at very advanced
Learning to Speak
Language Translation Tools
Speak and Translate
Write in a language
that you’re learning and native speakers will correct your
Smartphone Apps - Translation Tools
Voice Translation App
Google Android Translation App
Languages are available in Skype Translator
Meet the Pilot: Smart Earpiece Language Translator
A world without
language barriers: The Pilot is an earpiece which translates between
smart earpiece capable of translating between users
speaking a different language.
The Pilot: Smart Earpiece Language Translator
translates printed words from one
language to another with your smartphone's video camera, in real
time, no network
Word Lens Translator
and chat and has a text-to-text translation service for its
12-Language Talking Translator
Translate instantly by pointing your camera. With the Translate
app, you can translate text in images, either in a picture
you've taken or imported, or just by pointing your camera. You
can translate text you see around you just by pointing your
camera lens at it.
Question and Answer Platforms
act of Communication is an act of
is an oral translation of speech or sign from a language into another.
studies is the systematic study of the theory, description and
application of interpretation and translation.
is the assignment of meanings to various concepts, symbols, or objects
under consideration. An assignment of meaning to the symbols of a formal
is oral translation
of speech or sign from a language into another.
executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming or
scripting language, without previously compiling them into a machine
language program. An interpreter generally uses one of the following
strategies for program execution: Parse the source code and perform its
behavior directly. Translate source code into some efficient intermediate
representation and immediately execute this. Explicitly execute stored
precompiled code made by a compiler which is part of the interpreter
"Hearing accurately and understanding
correctly doesn't always happens. So listening must be the
responsibility of both people.
Listen to your own words and as well as the words spoken by
Learning to Speak
Accurately when other People Speak
Is Thinking and Talking to Yourself the