We are as many persons as many languages we speak. Here is the proof! The video brings light to linguistic diversity.

Language shapes the way we think!  This amazing video explaining what it is like speaking ‘within’ the language or adopting to a foreign language’s structure and thinking patterns.

 There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language — from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian — that suggest the answer is a resounding yes. “The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is,” Boroditsky says. “Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.”

I hope this video will give you the opportunity to ask yourself, “Why do I think the way that I do?” “How could I think differently?” And also, “What thoughts do I wish to create?

Gabriella Bozsar, thank you very much for this video!