KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES IS THE DOORWAY TO WISDOM

Language helps foster a sense of belonging. Many children may be struggling to fit in to their communities or their schools. They may feel as though they need to abandon their roots and the cultural differences that set them apart from other kids, but it’s important to teach them how important it is to foster diversity, and how valuable culture is to enriching our society. 

For children who are growing up in a different place than they are ethnically from, it can help them feel more connected to their parents and relatives, those who speak the native language, and it can help them feel as though they have some form of ‘home’. This ‘home’ may not be a physical place, but even having the capacity to think in your native language can serve as a reminder that you’re culturally diverse and always have a ‘home’ to escape to.

To have another language is to possess a second soul. Change your language and you change your thoughts. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Creativity can enhance only when there is genuine thinking in the comfort of language of a native rather than a forced thinking in a foreign language. The process of forming an idea and then converting it to a non native language in the mind and expressing will dilute the ethos of the very thought and may not be well delivered. 

While there is a drastic extinction of nativity and loss of language, culture and traditions in our society today, I’d say there are at least three reasons why we should frankly think about preserving native languages.

First of all, we currently have a language that is intertwined with its culture. Modern language teaching materials include insights about the culture and dialogues that are relevant within that context. Preserving a language helps preserve a culture's history and vice versa.

Second, every language has its strengths and weaknesses. We don’t have it all mapped yet. Understanding the pros and cons of every mechanism of communication may help us evolve our own language in the future, in the direction of more efficiency, ambiguity, ease, or whatever other feature we decide to go towards. There is an incredible richness here, much like the richness of medicine extracts in forests that might down even before we get to know them. That’s why languages should be preserved in documentation for further study.

Third, better knowledge from documented languages can help us trace back the origin of languages, their ramifications, and human groups dispersion thus helping us better recover and understand language evolution and human migration and history.

A native language is one that gives your identity , the process of right thinking and evolving a good tradition, A foreign language is like a frail, delicate muscle. If you do not use it, it weakens, though a language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club – the community of speakers of that language.