Aligned Transformation Now

How many languages are there in the world? The answer is not as easy as you think. Where do you draw the line between a language and a dialect?

There are geographically neighboring countries that may not understand each other’s language, such as Iraq with Arabic and Iran with Farsi. And there are other countries with very small linguistic differences but significant variances in terms of their history, customs, and governments, such as Sweden and Norway, Indonesia and Malaysia, or Argentina and Bolivia.

Still, there are countries that understand each other perfectly well, but they use two different language writing systems, such as the Serbians and Croatians.

Not to mention, those who live in China, with 302 languages spoken throughout the country, many of which are mutually unintelligible forms of speech.

Overall, according to the researchers at Ethnologue, there are 7,117 languages spoken today in the world! Mandarin, Hindi, English, and Spanish are the leading languages. What is the message here? The days before the Tower of Babel, when everybody spoke the same tongue, are long gone!

Every language is a window into the culture, the environmental setting in which it is spoken, and most importantly, the human mind.

What language and culture are you ready to explore?

We are all equipped to learn the codes hidden within the subconscious of every culture, if and only if we ask the right questions rather than listening to what people just say.

We all apply a subconscious meaning to any given object, relationship, or image strongly influenced by the culture in which we were raised.

Even when we all know that cultures differ from one another, these differences are based not on the facts or information received, but rather on how they process or perceive this information or data.

There is undeniably a strong connection between learning and emotion; without the latter, the former is impossible.

The lived experience and its accompanying emotion create an imprint. Once this imprint occurs, it strongly conditions our thought processes on a subconscious level and shapes our future actions and behaviors.

Imprints have a tremendous impact on why people do what they do. Therefore, do one favor for yourself and never ever take whatever others do to you personally.