Be a Babel fish

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LANGUAGE, An invention made by the mankind thousands of years ago to communicate among the community was one of the prime propellers for the advancements we are witnessing today. Language matured along with the human race and is playing a crucial role in this present day world. It’s always an interesting aspect to investigate the genesis of language. There were many conflicting theories that try to unveil the origins of this universal necessity. One spool of thought believes that language is just a part of Natural selection which always tries to make our lives better. Other conflicting theory believes that language is an outcome of a matured infrastructure in the Human brain. Let there be any theories, one question that left unanswered was:

“Why people at different locations of this planet speak different languages to convey a common message?”          

The number of distinctive languages in the world was expected to be around 6909 and even researchers admit that this count is at a very farther distance from the actual figure. We all feel comfortable to communicate and express our views in our mother tongue. But the globalization today demands multilingual skills from us. After the advent of globalization, the entire world was compressed into a small global village where every part of it can be accessed at a cost of a click. This broke the shackles and completely erased the demographic boundaries which transformed everybody into a Universal citizen. Though the globalization succeeded in gelling up the world, it failed to remove the linguistic barriers which prevail in all parts of the world. This triggered the thought of being bilingual to communicate and express our feelings in a language that we are working or living in.  

The need for learning a language other than our mother tongue is humongous. In this competitive world, it’s really a mundane task to guess the place or country that you are going to work in future. Right from our school days we were taught in English, which obviously made us a bit comfortable in English. But English is no more a Universal language. There are many countries in the world which demand the knowledge and speaking abilities in their respective languages. So, every one of us must keep our mind always open to learn a new language. Poor speaking skills in the language (related to the country where you are working in) can make you inferior. It also makes you dependant on others always and sometimes you will be ill-treated also.

It is not so easy to speak a foreign language without a proper practise equipped with some scientifically proven techniques. It’s easy to read and write a language but that is not the case with speaking. It is sufficient to practise alphabet of that language to read or write but in order to speak well in that language it requires a lot of practise and expertise in learning methods. Books (like “Learn Spanish in 30 days”) with some attractive cover pages cannot help you instead it requires a scientific way with which our human brain can easily assimilate the language. One such technique is the “Pimsleur approach”.

Note:- This article was intended to make students and other people aware of an efficient and affordable tool to learn speaking foreign languages. This was found on internet and we would like to share it with our readers and there is no intention to advertise or support a particular tool.  

What is Pimsleur approach?

Pimsleur approach follows a method that your mother used to follow when you are a child. In our childhood, when we were making some meaningless sounds to express our pain, sorrow and happiness, Mothers spell some words before us and forces us to repeat the same and this process continues till we spell our first word. This is how we master our Mother tongue and the same trick applies here in Pimsleur approach as well but with some additional research on our brain wiring. At different ages of a human life the ability to grab words in a linguistic perspective varies. It means our human brain is tuned to a specified range to learn some new words in a specified time. This approach makes use of this property and makes you comfortable in your language of choice. It provides you with a phrase and prompts you to spell it back within a span of time say 40 seconds. This time interval keeps on growing means it again prompts you to repeat the same phrase after an hour time and this practise goes on for some tens of days. This practice involuntarily feeds these phrases in your brain and you can then easily recollect those phrases whenever in need. The phrases that were given to you will be prioritized based on the frequency of their use in that language in your daily life.

This approach has got several Pros and cons as well. Pros includes, this approach is the best one available for blind to start speaking a foreign language. Also, this makes you recollect the phrases by which you can sharpen your brain thereby reducing the risk of Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases. Cons include this cannot transform you into a master in  a language instead it will introduce you to the language and make you speak the first words effortlessly with which later on you can exploit the knowledge.

Why should I believe this approach?

You can even follow this approach to learn a language (30 languages offered) of choice provided you have 10 $ with you. This course comes with scientifically designed disks which introduces you to the simple conversations of the language that you want to learn. There may be a slight hesitation in you when there is a monetary investment involved. This course comes with a 100 % money back guarantee after 30 days (read the terms & conditions thoroughly before purchasing) if you feel that the course is not so worthy to have. So, what’s there to hesitate? It’s a matter of 10 $ and even you can get back the money if you dislike it. So give it a try!!! This approach was rated good by some experts in this field and there were also some purchases from premier organizations like FBI, New York Times etc.

We end this article with a statement: Foreign language is always needed to fight and progress in this competitive world. It gives you a lot of confidence to express your thoughts. The languages you learn are for necessity but your mother tongue is your identity. It is the language that your mother taught you and it’s your duty to respect it. No matter how far you go, how rich you become, never feel shy to communicate in your mother tongue and insult it because 

                      “Insulting our Mother tongue is like insulting our Mother”.