Tag : Language

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Expand your brain capability for another language

I'm recently interested in this category issue, so I want to investigate it more.

Formant frequency

I need to know a little bit more about Formant Frequency to lean non-native language. Are there any formant frequency differences betweeen each languages or in dialect level?

Critical Age & Critical Period

What is critical age and period on learning something new, and Is there any way to append this theory to different fields?

Dying Languages in Japan

I have to think about this situation a little bit more seriously:

This article says that 2,500 languages are dying today, and among these, 8 languages in Japan. One of 8 is my hometown language. I've never thought my hometown language as "Language", different from Japanese, because I've thought it's just a dialect of Japanese. But UNESCO(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), paris, regards it as a language different from Japanese, like Ainu, and it's in "dangerous" state like other 7 languages in Japan.

To tell the truth, I can understand people who can speak my hometown launguage about 90%, but sometimes I cannot understand 10% because of my lack of using it and there are a lot of small differences between town and villages.

Talking about speaking, the situation is getting worse. I can speak it, but so-so. Maybe it's because even I'm living in my hometown, I haven't had many chances to use it for a long time, and almost never have a time to use it in daily life especially when I talk to co-workers or my friends.

In the situation like that, how can I solve this issue? It's too hard to solve.

My generation don't speak it in daily life and trying not to use it maybe it's because we thought speaking a dialect is uncool. But we have to change our thoughts as one of the speakers of dying language.

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