How Our Mother Tongue Shapes Our Identity — Cultural and linguistic diversity is a feature of many nations today. People from various social, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds live together as a result of historical events and human migrations. A shared cultural heritage binds people together and creates a sense of belonging and acceptance in the community. Culture is…

How Our Environment Affects the Language — To grasp the world around us, express our thoughts and feelings, we are forced to use abstract constructs such as language. Does this mean that speakers of different languages really live in different worlds? Perhaps this seems unlikely when you consider familiar Indo-European languages, but when we think about the…

Even the most basic perceptual mechanisms, such as those involved in color perception, can be altered by our environment, culture, and language. — Language, culture, and worldview are so closely intertwined that determining the extent of their influence on each other, and approaching them as independent categories, is nearly impossible. Does the language shape our worldview and affects our culture, or are the culture and environment the ones that lay the foundations for…

Why is it important and how to do it — Each of us once met a talented, creative, ingenious person who is completely unaware of their skills and capabilities and has a bad image of themselves because of poor grades in school. When you ask children if they are creative or what creativity is, their answers will mainly relate to…

12 Top Picks — Fictional characters with a variety of psychological problems regularly capture readers’ attention, and studying psychology can be an almost inexhaustible source of inspiration to writers. Thanks to the writers that tackle such sensitive topics, we can gain a deeper understanding of mental illnesses and the way to deal with them…

Make your writing easy, even when it becomes challenging — Yes, writing can be difficult for a variety of reasons. Maybe you are a perfectionist and don’t let a single word appear on the screen until the selection process goes through your head. Maybe the upcoming deadline causes anxiety and deprives you of the ability to think of even the…

Earth is a beautiful place with great diversity but there is one word that unites us all. — You will probably be surprised by the fact that there are more than 6,500 different languages in the world. Although about 2,000 languages are poorly dispersed and number about 1,000 native speakers per language, this does not diminish their significance in any way. If someone asks you which language is…

Learn More Effectively by Avoiding These Mistakes — Online learning is a lonesome process in which you have to organize a lot of things on your own. Students interact less with fellow students, teachers, and mentors; they distribute the workload and arrange the physical space for classes themselves. …

Foreign languages can help outsmart the brain, so you don’t have to worry about black cats, broken mirrors, and other invincible signs. — Scientists from the University of Trent in Italy and the Vrije University of Amsterdam made this conclusion based on their experiment which demonstrates how our linguistic abilities can change our perception of the world. The Experiment For the experiment, they gathered a group of Italians who were fluent in English and German…