What My Name?

izreIl
My name is israel.
         It started with a "i" and then a "s". Then the middle is "rae", in the end "El. I really dint know how to translate my name to phonetics. But this maybe how it translated "izreIl".

The Book I Chose

           The book I chose is Don’t Sleep, There Are Snake, by Daniel L Everret. I chose this book because the title of the book look very interesting and the subtitle got my attention to know about the life and language in the jungle. Everret is a missionary who travel to the Pirahas to translate the bible into their language.   

The thing that most interest me is the relationship between language and culture, because there’s really a relationship between language and culture or not.  Also I’m interesting to know how Everret lose his faith by converting the natives. I expect to know after I finish the book is the relationship between language and culture. Also what makes Everret lose his faith in the jungle?  

Autobiographical of Myself

          Language is a form of communicating with others. I was born in the United State, but raised in Dominican Republic. My parent speaks Spanish. I learned English and Spanish in school, but I learned more Spanish because of my parents. I could speak, read, write and understand English and Spanish, which makes me bilingual. The language I speak whether is English or Spanish depends in the setting I’m located and whom I’m speaking too. But most of the time I only speak Spanish when I’m at home then with my friends. Learning English was a struggle for me for the reasons that Spanish is my first language, it was what I spoken the most in my childhood. I had to improve my English by reading a lot of books and seeing T.V shows in the English language just imitating it. In my family we usually speak with hand movement and face expression to convey are emotion and tell stories.     

I believe language “happens” in a spontaneous reaction, also by the culture people come from and where they were raise. Some assumptions that I had about language was I dint know that object, color, could symbolize language. My hypothesis is that language really reflects on how a person is raise? Or by the culture they come from? Some language inform specifically with what person you being with and other language don’t be specifically. For example, English don’t be specifically if person spend time with another person, but French and German be very specific on what sex person you with.

According to Guy Deutscher’s article there is different type of views and ideas of different languages that are very interesting. It means various culture have different meaning for words and sometime when it get translate the definition may be quite unusual. Language comes not only by communicating, but also shown in object, symbolic ideas like pictures, fossils and movements. Geographic language is different in many countries because people have many ways of giving directions. For example, in some countries they give directions by saying “left” or “right“, but in other countries they say north, east, west, and south. I learned that speakers would simply not be able to understand basic concept about objects and action within culture.  

            Some question that Deutscher’s answered was that language in my culture is very different in communicating with people. Also that different language gives object sex like masculine and feminine. I also have one question in mind that is: those languages we speak really have an influence in our experience in the world?