Welcome to the Wide World of Languages! by Devanjali Kesarwani https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall An insight into the delightful engagement of cultures and languages tied together in a wide wonderwall, just for you! created by Devanjali Kesarwani, student of Pathways School Noida en-us 2019-03-20 18:03:21 UTC 2026-03-09 13:23:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png Why do people learn languages? devanjali_kesarwani https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/343479524
  • Travel- helps to break any barriers while asking for some kind of favour. Eg, asking for directions
  • Work and Business- assists you in making stronger international contacts.
  • Music, films, arts and culture
  • For your own desire and/or satisfaction 
  • Citizenship of a certain country
  • Increases your brain capacity and you have better memory
  • Improvement of analytical skills
  • Leads to a more tolerant and flexible human being
  • Deepens the understanding and connection of a person about a culture
  • Emigration
  • Helps us to choose our words wisely i.e. being mindful of other people around us
  • Educative and/or academic purposes

    • ]]>     2019-03-20 18:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/343479524     What motivates people to learn foreign languages? devanjali_kesarwani https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/343505246
  • The desire to communicate more effectively with people around
  • To show respect to a particular society and/or person
  • Higher level achievement in examinations
  • Curiosity
  • History behind certain languages
  • 3 mindsets to motivate individuals to not give up learning foreign languages:
    i) “Mistakes get me closer to the promised land.”
    ii) “Man, this is fun!”
    iii) “Every day is training day.”-https://www.fluentu.com/blog/motivation-to-learn-a-language/ 
  • Ways to self-motivation in order to learn a new language: http://eurolinguiste.com/language-learning-motivation/ 

    • ]]>     2019-03-20 19:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/343505246     Disadvantages of learning a foreign language devanjali_kesarwani https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/343506782
  • Difficulty- different alphabets and pronunciations
  • A person can drift from his/her native language(s)
  • A child can be confused about his/her cultural identity depending on where your ward is being raised
  • Additional work for students

    • ]]>     2019-03-20 19:07:07 UTC https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/343506782     Amazing Facts on Languages vishwam_khandelwal1 https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/346442366



    1. Around 50% of the words present in English are from French
    2. Greek and traditional Chinese are the oldest written languages still in use.
    3. People that speak in sign languages also have an accent
    4. 80% of Africans today have no written form.
    5. Cambodian (Khmer) is the longest alphabet in the world- 74. It contains 33 consonants
    6. Only 5% of Portuguese speakers reside in Portugal. The majority of Portuguese speakers live in Brazil.
    7. Silbo Gomero- a language in Spain that’s made entirely of whistling.




    ]]>     2019-03-29 08:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/346442366     How do languages affect the way we think? vishwam_khandelwal1 https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/346443430
    Yes,languages do affect the way we think.If you show a person speaking English a photo of a person breaking a vase by accident he/she will say “He broke the vase by accident” while a Spanish speaker might say “The vase broke by accident”.So this means that the English speaker will remember who did it while the Spanish speaker will remember that it was an accident.And there are also some languages which do not even have numbers making it difficult for native speakers to count.And there is a community in Australia which has a language completely based on directions.If you want to say “hello”,you’ll have to say “Which way are you going?” you’ll have to tell them the direction and ask them where are they going.But in that same community,people do not say left,right they say east,north,south and west.A surprising fact is we losing on average one language per week.



    ]]>     2019-03-29 08:09:45 UTC https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/346443430     What motivates people to learn a new language vishwam_khandelwal1 https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/346443628 People need and want to learn new languages because learning new languages can have you more friends and job offers.Learning new languages can also help you while traveling if you encounter someone who does not speak English.]]> 2019-03-29 08:10:56 UTC https://padlet.com/devanjali_kesarwani/culture_language_wonderwall/wish/346443628