Thoughts on: How Speaking a Second Language Affects the Way You Think by Maritza Muro https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp Remember to double click to start writing! en-us 2017-09-20 14:28:37 UTC 2018-02-22 03:09:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Speaking a second language affects the way people think. https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/193178949 Definitely, if a guy learns how to dominate the skills of a foreign language: reading, writing, speaking, listening and cognition, he will think different. That is to say, each language has a different whole set of features to label actions and events. Therefore, the wide range of verbal tenses can be very specific in a time line. For instance, when a guy tries to refer to events and actions in a foreign language, which is very rich in verbal tenses, he will have a variety of thoughts to convey the information to the addressees. On the contrary,  If a foreign language has just a few tenses to express events, logically, speakers tend to group actions around a verbal tense, that is, to generalize actions at a certain level of intrinsic relation that connotes the actions in the time line where the verbal tense is located.

Ernesto Muñoz Martínez

]]> 2017-10-02 19:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/193178949 HOW SPEAKING A SECOND LANGUAGE AFFECTS THE WAY YOU THINK. Sometimes speaking a second language affects the way we think. Because many people who speak more than one language often feel they are a different person in each language, for example, when I speak English my voice changes completely, my accent obviously changes and my perception towards English or my feelings are happy, because he enjoys talking about that. Another example when I speak Spanish that is my native language or the language of my parents, I feel it is something routine and I do it without as much interest as when I speak English.When we use a foreign language, unconsciously we move to the most deliberate mode, simply because the effort to operate in a language that is not ours makes our cognitive system prepare for a debilitating activity.Another alternative explanation is that differences may arise between native and foreign languages because the language of our childhood resonates with greater emotional intensity than another language learned in a more academic environment. As a result, moral judgments made in a foreign language are less burdened by emotional reactions that rise to the surface when we use a language learned in childhood. Memory intertwines language with the experiences and interactions through which that language was learned. People who are bilingual are more likely to remember an experience if asked in the language in which the event occurred. Our childhood languages, learned with intensity, passion and emotion that happened to me when I learned English and Spanish. Best regards! CLAUDIA IMELDA MEDINA GARCIA clauimemedgar https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/231751036 2018-02-14 23:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/231751036 How Speaking a Second Language Affects The Way You Think I have heard several comments about how a bilingual person´s brain works in a different manner than the people that only speak one language, but not hits comment. Being honest, I never thought about this topic and the way I react when I´m thinking and speaking in English. It is also true that I´ve never had the occasion to take difficult decisions using the English language because I live in México, and I do not REALLY have the need of thinking or speaking in English if I have to decide something. I will have to check it out. Betting against my students… https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/231763324
Francisco Ramirez Gomar]]> 2018-02-15 01:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/231763324 https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/232209017 2018-02-16 01:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/232209017 How Speaking a Second Language Affects the Way You Think https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/232214025 Some people say that a person who speaks more than one language is more intelligent and able to do more things because his or her mind has been trained differently and is more prepared. If an individual knows a second language, his or her mind is fuller of ideas and thoughts than a person who only speaks one language. That means that a bilingual person has a more cultivated mind and is more able to produce ideas with more fluency. I remember very well when I worked in a call center during four years. Because of my job, which was dealing with customers, primarily black young people form U. S. I had all type of conversations with them, such as many discussions that make my mind be the most clearly possible to respond attacks and be respectful at the same time. In some occasions, the conversations were very comfortable, the process of communication was very different, and my mind was more calm and fresh. There in my work my coworkers were mainly people who were deported from the U.S. and other people who only spoke in Spanish, so the atmosphere was culturally from U.S. and with a bit part of Mexican culture. In occasions, I was speaking with a person in Spanish and almost at the same time with a person who only spoke in English and my mind was able to confront that with a mental capacity that was trained before. My mind was accustomed to use Spanish and English, but it represented an effort for me. Currently I speak in English in my classes and with a few people who are bilingual, or when I have the chance to go to El Paso, Texas in the stores.  However, fundamentally I speak Spanish in almost everywhere. My mind reacts differently when I speak English, I think it works more concentrated and try to look for ideas to respond accurately depending on the type of conversation that I have. Using other language makes our mind to work more and differently, that is why a bilingual person is considered more capable and intelligent somehow.
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Armando de Jesús Osollo Mendoza.]]> 2018-02-16 02:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/232214025 How speaking a second language affects the way you think https://padlet.com/magaritza/sluxcfg2p7bp/wish/234067812 It has been proven by Albert Costa (Spanish psychologist) and his group that the language you speak constrains the way you think. All bilingual people have shown changes in the way they think against monolingual people. The researchers considered three domains about decision-making: 1. Losses, gains and risk, they proved by an experiment that bilingual people do not fear risk as monolingual people. 2. Cause and effect. Bilingual people focus on real fact in order to make a decision and monolingual people showed a superstitious behavior. And finally number 3 Moral issues. Bilingual people showed an utilitarian thinking, it means making a decision in order to get the greatest good, on the other hand monolingual people showed that intuition and emotion dominated their decision-making process.
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Xochitl Guzman
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