Wednesday, November 04, 2009
The Mind of the Arabic Speaker
Here's an interesting finding from a study of brains of Arabic speakers - their literary language is treated as a second language compared to the regular common vernacular language. I think that shows the contrast of a higher literary intellectual expression existing very separately from a more primitive language base. I guess that's consistent with the fact of so many who have adopted Middle Eastern culture have a strong tendency toward being animalistic morons.
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This study was conducted in Israel.
It seems from the study that the students opting for Arabic are Muslims who are studying Arabic as the second language, the first or compulsory one being Hebrew.
Had they found that Hebrew students studying Arabic as optional language became slower, perhaps that was another talking point.
This survey shows a bias, as a deliberate attempt at psychological denigration. Not too much unlike the Aryan superiority theory of which the Jews were victims.
It is my educated guess that the degree of difference between the spoken and the literary varies from language to language. It is also my conjecture that in highly civilised societies, or in conversations in one language between highly educated people, the difference becomes negligible.
In view of the above, I wonder what would have been the results if a similar study had been conducted on and literary varieties of highly developed languages.
The study on Arabic speakers, however, points to a necessity that for learning a foreign language properly, one must be able to think in that language, instead of being forced to think first in one's mother tongue and then to translate into the foreign language. Development of this ability with English, for example, will greatly help science education in India. Therefore, it is advisable to start teaching English right at the beginning of school education.
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