What are we missing?
LANGUAGE!!!
Are you familiar with the story of the Magical Gold Fish? The one who grants the poor old fisherman his three wishes?
I am going to offer you an alternative version of the story with quite a different ending.
As you watch the video think of two questions:
1) Which skill is the fisherman in the story missing?
2) How would the fisherman's and his wife's and children's lives be different if they were less ignorant?
Language is a system of communication.
Communication is connection.
Communication can be VERBAL or NON-VERBAL
Verbal communication deals with words or symbols that are used to represent words.
Non -Verbal communication deals with body language, gestures, and appearance.
Both verbal and nonverbal communication can be subdivided into either vocal or nonvocal.
Communication
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Verbal
Vocal |
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Verbal
Non-Vocal |
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Non-Verbal
Vocal |
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Non-Verbal
Non- Vocal |
Now that you know a little bit about both verbal and non-verbal communication, let's watch a video that would illustrate the use of both verbal and non-verbal communication.
Taking place in a time no longer remembered, the film tells the tale of a dramatic meeting between two men from neighboring tribes.
A diminutive man frantically endeavors to warn a large and mysterious stranger of a seemingly immediate and terrifying threat. Unfortunately, the two men come from different cultures and do not share a common language - their interaction quickly becomes confused and frustrated.
As you watch this video, think of :
1)Are the two men communicating verbally or non-verbally?
2)What is the small man trying to tell the large man?
3)What would make their communication more successful?
The two men in the video would have understood each other much easier if they spoke the same language. But which one?
There are about 6000 languages spoken in the world.
Which languages are you aware of?
Competition between teams.
Round 1.
Rules:
1) A representative from each team pulls a number out of a hat to determine the order in which teams name the languages they know.
2)Teams brainstorm lists of languages they are aware of.
3) Team 1 names a language, team 2 names a language, team 3 names a language, team 4 names a language, team 5 names a language, team 6 names a language, and then team 1names a language, team 2 names a language, team 3 names a language, team 4 names a language, team 5 names a language... until teams run out of their knowledge of languages! By the way, once a language has been named, it cannot be repeated. The last team to name a language wins and gets 3 additional points!
You have 2 minutes to brainstorm within your teams to compile a list of languages to draw from when it is your time to answer.
If I were you I would keep the discussion within teams as QUIET as possible so that other teams do not steal your ideas!
And if some teams choose not to be discreet and name their languages using loud voices, I would by all means STEAL their ideas!
The science that studies languages is called LINGUISTICS.
Professionals who work in the field of LINGUISTICS are called Linguists.
Note that all the words above have the same "root" - "LINGUA" . It is a Latin root that means "tongue, language".
A person who knows only 1 language is called
MONOLINGUAL.
A person who speaks 2 languages, is called BILINGUAL.
A person who speaks 3 languages is called TRILINGUAL.
Now by analogy, help me to define a person who speaks many languages.
1 Syllable Word - MONOSYLLABIC word (math)
Many Syllables Word - MULTISYLLABIC (mathematics)
1 Language - MONOLINGUAL
Many Languages -
Many Cultures -
Next, we are going to watch a video about a BILINGUAL CAT.
As you watch this video, think of :
1) Which 2 languages does the cat speak? How does his knowledge of languages help him?
2)If I knew more than 1 language how could that help me in my life?
If I knew more than 1 language, I could .......
So, I need to learn ANOTHER LANGUAGE!!!!!!
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