Lera Boroditsky explains why bilingual people can think differently depending on the language they’re speaking. Watch the full episode on my YouTube channel for a deeper conversation.

Language is an expression of culture. Learning a culture is understanding the culture. It's harder to learn a language if you don't get the culture. Escpecially to reach high level of proficiency Accepting different cultures reshape the way you think. Makes you more interes

But the English tell us that the Welsh language is a waste of time. Stupid fuckers.

Good discussion, but For someone from a geography where language changes every few hundred kilometres, I partly would agree: Because humans think through multiple layers: language, memory, culture, institutions, embodiment, experience, relationships, etc Language often acts as the primer into those layers, shaping what counts as an object, an action, a cause, an emotion, sometimes even a fact. That’s why bilinguals can appear like different people in different languages but it’s never just the language that made them appear different it’s other of those layers too… Language is a lens, not the entire landscape. 💭

Every language you speak bring something to you and also something out of you. You not only think but also act according to the one you're speaking at a very moment. And there is always one in particular you prefer above all because it speaks differently to your whole self. ✨

Yes. And I think a big part of real language acquisition is seeing that so much of a language is based on common phrases and phrasing...which is so rooted in a particular culture. That to use those languages properly requires inhabiting a different culture.

I definitely play better chess when I think of my moves in German.

For some of us who were born and blessed with having/using multiple languages since birth, perhaps it should instead be, 'Mono Lingual People Think Differently' by @leraboroditsky 😊

Cool! A lot of Indians speak three languages by default :)

Bro, that explains why my English thoughts are so weird. Lmao.

This is true ….. and we find it strange when people don’t speak more than one language