Language Blog

Part 1.On saturday I decided to visit my older brother and his girlfriend who I haven’t seen for a while, both were there and so I knocked on the door and he answered and I directly sat in the dining room chair. Nevertheless they were both confused by my behavior so I just kept trying to communicate with them without using any symbolic language. Not only was it difficult to communicate, but both of them were getting frustrated because they couldn’t understand what I was doing for 15 minutes. So eventually they communicated with me by simply showing hand gestures, facial expressions and also head movement and kept doing the same but it was still annoying so therefore we couldn’t get a straight answer. What if I were in two different cultures, well it would be easy to know how to write and speak because that is the best communication we have but on the other hand If I were to communicate like I did with my brother and girlfriend there’s no way to understand each other, it will take days to figure it out. In todays society we seen these views as noticeable when we see people who are deaf, blind, handicapped etc. we see this almost everyday and sometimes we do encounter people who cant communicated with us, especially people from other countries who we don’t understand their language at all even though its hard, but we still find ways to communicate such as: sign language, learning a language, drawing pictures and writing words. These are tools to help those who can’t communicate in certain ways.

Part 2.The 15 minutes on this one was just as difficult as the first one in my opinion, while still communicating with my brother and his girlfriend I showed no movement at all, I was posed like a robot without using any gestures or body movement, my goal was to do this for 15 minutes and thats what I did. Talking was normal but acted and sounded boring just like a robot. I was hoping they understand me better but when they saw me just sitting there they automatically taught I was some kind of zombie while trying really hard not to move at all. Both were trying to get the point but they seem very unamused by my talking and prompted me being lame. As I was talking about my summer trip which does have a lot of description they were unable to understand without the movement of my body. Having the trouble of not using no hand signals, non vocal intonation, no head movement or body is just frustrating especially for two people who had a hard time finding my summer story interesting. In today's society "signs" are a great visual aid to understand and record in our minds, it helps those who are not capable of understanding our body languages, because I know there are certain people who cant cope with movement and others who take these actions differently which might insult them if you don't speak and use correct body language. Although these are people who have problems understanding this language but the fact of the benefit is that its very important to learn this way so we all can communicate better, its something we deal with everyday and its crucial but to be in an environment were they don't benefit from reading body language is out of the question.