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Understanding stereotypes. Social Sciences. How other languages inform our own. Clearly, the influence of that culture has left its mark. Knowing the history of a culture is not only a way to get clarification, it also shows how words have evolved to reflect the current cultural climate. Before the internet, it was next to impossible to pinpoint the redefining moments for these words.
The broadening or dissolution of their original meanings tended to just happen slowly over time with usage. Thanks to the internet, we can study this much more closely. Words can evolve in various ways. In English, this was a term originally referring to an unintelligent man, but over time it came to be quite a derogatory term for an attractive, but not very bright, woman. Our ever-developing culture forces language to develop alongside it. Not doing so can cause some embarrassing or offensive situations.
Take a language like Japanese that feature words that are closely tied to the culture. This is referred to as keigo. So what have we learned today? Hopefully you can look back at your learning experience with more awareness about what to change about your learning methods or your mindset.
How deep is your understanding of the foreign words you learned? Have you just memorized their definitions or translations, or do you understand what they mean and what they imply when spoken?
When you take that understanding and apply it as you learn the language, single words suddenly carry new weight and words you once found just quirky and strange start to make a lot more sense. If you dig the idea of learning on your own time from the comfort of your smart device with real-life authentic language content, you'll love using FluentU. With FluentU, you'll learn real languages—as they're spoken by native speakers. FluentU has a wide variety of videos as you can see here:.
FluentU App Browse Screen. FluentU has interactive captions that let you tap on any word to see an image, definition, audio and useful examples.
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