[Youtube Review][TED] How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

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(Recommended)Popular Videos : [TED] How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

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Playtime Comments : [TED] How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

Pa**********:

10:50 "The language guides our reasoning about events."
I'd love to see her moderate the 2020 U.S. presidential debates.

fe*******:

5:50 to tie time to landscape makes perfectly sense since time is (also) mesured by the turns of our globe - I like these ppl

Ra*******:

8:58 fith grade spirit is still present among grown cultured adults (laughting at "long" word when refered to a man)

Du******:

4:43
I'm a native Arabic speaker and if you told me to organize these pictures I will start with the youngest (from left to right)
I can't see how my writing direction would affect my answer
Only if you told me to organize them from the older to the youngest

Pa**********:

10:50 "The language guides our reasoning about events."
Truer words haven't been spoken about the events occurring in the U.S. during July of 2020.

OL*****:

2:57 that's how my gps app talks

Ya*****************************:

5:49 East to West Mhm. Maybe it is because I'm extremely interested in astronomy (and therefor kind of speaking a different language ^^) but East to West doesn't seem like it's bound to the landscape (I mean the ground) but rather the apparent movement of the sky/celestial sphere.
As many languages you speak as often you are human.
-Czech saying

Cl****:

5:27 The sun sets in the west and rises in the east.

Sc**************:

13:25 the silence speaks volumes

Hi********:

8:53 haha nice

 

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Top Comments : [TED] How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

Ho********:

Control the language = Control the culture :-0

Li*********:

My husband says that even my voice becomes different when I speak another language))) When I speak French, he calls it "Sweet Katyusha", when I speak Russian - "Tough Katyusha"))

in***************:

also in spanish light blue is "celeste" and dark blue is "azul"

Se*************:

One of my favorite TEDtalks - interesting and very applicable topic, articulate and engaging speaker, balanced humor. Thank you, Lera!

Vi*******:

You've gotta respect the amount of research that has gone into this speech

Ca**********:

I absolutely loved her speech. So professionaly, accurately, meaningfully, interestingly and sweetly constructed and delivered. Simply brilliant!

Pa************:

Thats why language interpreters are amazing!!! W have to think really fast and use the correct words in orden to deliver a right and accurate message from one to another!!!

M0****:

"what thoughts do you wish to create",this sentence made me to think again about learning language .

Li******:

Since I am a Chinese, Japanese and English speaker, I understand what Professor Boroditsky said.
Even my Chinese is kind of the Japanese style now. Language really can change the way you think.

갱미*:

Her speech is so interesting. I love her confidence :)

Fu****:

She's so smart. This is a great talk. The dress is very cool

mu************:

I remember the time when i encountered the sentence "i cut myself". as an Indonesian, this doesn't make any sense because i think our language is one of the language that would consider that as a lunatic action so that sentence for me would mean that you cut yourself, intentionally. In my language, as she said, we don't really have to use the subject to describe an accident, so it would probably be "my hand was cutted" or something like that one of the most memorable moment when i learned english

Gu**************:

She is so gloriously smart and intelligent... She's beautiful.

Ba**********:

After seeing so many TED talks in a row, I really feel that one day I should stand up on that stage.... Only to see if there is any glass screen showing up your scripts for assisting. Many speakers tend to pause and watch that red carpet for a while before starting new sentences.

Ab*******:

Words are powerful!
I do love learning languages so so much!
I won't feel satisfied until I perfect more than 20 language!
#Aber_Afeef
#Humanity_First

De**:

I got shivers when she explained how time perception changed with language

He****:

It´s even more clear if you think about how the verb "to be" is divided in two verbs in languages like Spanish and Portuguese: one verb based on essence ("ser") and one based on status ("estar"). They change totally the sense of what you're saying, but in English they are just the same so you aren't able to express your idea totally. I think that's so interesting!

na*****:

Speaking about Sun and Moon. my language (Romanian) uses for them the same genders as in Spanish. when i was studying German, i was asked to write a short fairy-tale. Based on some old Ro legends, i wrote about a sad love story between the sun and a fair princess, putting "Er (he)", whenever i wanted to replace "Die Sonne". the teacher had to correct all the "Er"-s and put "Sie (she)" instead.
when i read my corrected composition, it sounded unintentionally LGBT. lol.

Ka***********:

her shining eyes, her voice, her way of speaking, a warm and soft air around her

Th****************:

She is great I speak German I know where is coming from languages change due to influence from other people’s traditions culture .

Za***************:

I broke my arm is literally you broke your arm like you’d break a stick. But not in my ( Kachin ) language, we say I broke my arm in accident ( normally accident involved to get your limb broken). If you say direct like in English people would ask how and why.
But in Burmese, the sentence would just be a broken arm. I’m pentalingual and adding more languages in the list.

El**********:

I"m always surprised that people even speaking the same language can think differently))

Da******************:

Carlossss cade vc?

좀조****:

If she realize how many different ways of expressions for color and taste and sound in Korean, she gets a shock!!

Da********:

In Javanese we greet each other by asking "where are you going?"

Ka**************:

THIS is why I love Linguistics!! :) so true language has such power over our perception of the world we live in

Ne************:

"To have a second language is to have a second soul." -Charlemagne, for someone who speaks three languages fluently, this is so true. As a trilingual, you watch movies from three different countries, read books from three different languages, learn cultures of three origins, and forge relationships with from diverse cultures. Indeed, when you learn a new language, you acquire a new reality of something different, or a soul. Knowing more than one or two languages also helps you understand the history of humanity and how some cultures and people act and think in different ways. <3

Jo**********:

My mother tongue is Persian, and I speak English fluently. I learned driving on the right side of the road in Iran. When I moved to South Africa, I had to drive on the left side of the road. No problem so far. When I had passengers, and we spoke in English in the car, all went well. When some of my friends switch to speaking in Persian in the car, I subconsciously moved to the left side of the road scaring everyone in the car and on the road! Then I moved to Australia, and the same thing happens every now and then!

Wa*********:

I speak 3 languages everyday, i lived in Jombang, East Java for like 5 years.. i use Sundanese to talk to my family in home, Javanese to talk to my Javanese friends and people in the same age, and Indonesian language to talk to javanese people who older than me (in order to make the conversation goes politely)..

I can say that the Sapir-Whorf theory is the most related theory in my own "lingustics struggle", because i thought the same thing, that there's not only in linguistics scope, but also how a culture affects someone's mind/reasoning.. i sometimes get confused to explain what i think in Sundanese language, then explain it to my Javanese friends/people.. or vice versa, what Javanese thing is in my mind then I explain to my Sundanese friends.. my friends always gets confused by me lol

Ri********:

When she was talking about the accident it reminded me of my Japanese lessons ! So in English if someone said their arm was broke you would say oh i'm sorry for that however in Japanese and arabic not sure about french if someone apologize for you having your arm broken that just means they broke your arm we say something liken "oh that's sad" ! The most awkward situation is telling someone whome someone close to them passed away i'm sorry for your lost that just means you killed the person
Also my father's usually makes fun of us when we say the vase broke which is how you would describe it in arabic and he's like no you broke it ! Don't just say it broke like you're innocent ! It's so funny because it's just an accident

 

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