SPEAK UP

Views expressed here are personal.

Language

Well, for the definition let’s ask our most reliable source, Wiki, it says, “Language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so, and a language is any specific example of such a system”, Seems a bit complicated one and as per the Oxford Dictionary it is, “The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way”.

To make it more simple I understand 'A Language is a medium of expression', A tool that we use to express our emotions before others. In ancient times too people used various types of languages like pictures and gestures to make others understand them. Gradually, with the passage of time, everything changed and so also the way we used to express our thoughts and expressions. These days there are numerous languages spoken globally. Some languages have a lot of dialects too. It has become a tool to define a region or a geographical area. Anyone can easily understand your region the moment you start speaking your native language.We love our native language. We love to speak, to write and to promote our mother language and we should. What can be a simpler way to express our emotions except our own mother tongue? It is so easy and so convenient too, that’s why we love it and feel proud of using it as much as possible.

Other languages! What if we don’t know a language and we have to communicate a person who doesn’t understand our language? Isn’t it troublesome? Do we get irritated? Do we start hating such a person just because we do not understand each other’s words? What if the other person loves their native language too much that he never felt the urge to learn others. These are certain situations we do not want to be in.

Imagining a world where every one understands each other. No language is a barrier to communicate with people, A world with one universal language. All people speaking the same way! That would be really a simple world to live in, with no more complications over language, region, beyond any geographical area our medium of communication is same. However English has become such a language accepted world wide after the internet gained it’s popularity world wide. Almost every corner understands English. Everyone must learn this as a universal language. Learning a universal language helps us communicate those other people from other areas whom we can’t convey anything in their so loved mother tongue.

Ever wondered the language in which a baby communicates its mother. A baby cries and a mother understands their need. Can we communicate through crying although we all are very familiar to this act? Should we hate a baby because we can’t understand their language? Can we communicate the way animals do? Lets not forget the widely used language to express our emotions, that is Emoticons or Emoji's.  These emoji's are replacing most of our words or emotions. An emoji can say a lot of words silently. So, a language mustn’t be a parameter to measure people.

You must be agree with me that learning a particular language is not so easy, even our own native language too. Starting from the alphabets to words and then forming sentences is a lengthy process.  Learning means one must be able to read, write and speak a particular language. If we have to master over a language after so much of hard work, then shouldn’t we feel proud of using it? Yes! Everyone should. There are so many multilingual people who can manage multiple languages and those people never find it tough to communicate over regions. They never hate other people just because of the barrier. So if everyone can’t be multilingual, there must be a universal language to learn and communicate. This helps in better placement of our emotions.

Using and promoting your own language is the greatest virtue, but it mustn’t affect us in communicating. One mustn’t hate other languages and should learn the universal language to make life easier.

Let us think, One World, One Language!