Language Blog Post

Part 1

I found that this experiment was a bit difficult but more easy than anything. It was difficult at parts because I am used to using my voice to explain things and basically talk but not using it was very weird. It was easy as well because I always use my body, and hands to help describe things am talking about or trying to explain. They were confused at first with what I was trying to tell them but as I kept going on using my hands and body they started to catch on. They tried there best make it work through the whole 15 minutes we were doing this, but found it to be hard to keep going and guessing what am trying to tell them. I would say that the speaking culture has a definite advantage than the non-speaking culture. The speaking culture might try to help the non-speaking culture understand what they are saying by speaking slower and clearer to them by emphasizing the pronunciation of some words.

Part 2

            In this experiment I was able to last through the whole 15 minutes but it was very hard for me. The difficulty of this part was not being able to use my body or hands or even a piece of paper to help write down what I was talking about because I am used to using my body, hands and paper when talking and trying to explain things. My partners found it easy in a way but also hard. It was easy because this time I was able to use my voice to talk to them, but when I was trying to explain something to them they kept asking to write it down or draw it on a piece of paper, but I couldn’t do that so it was hard when they didn’t understand me even though I was using my voice. I would say that non-speech language is also very important along with spoken language because it helps us go beyond our voice of explaining things to people we are talking to. I think there are a lot of people who can’t read body language that well than others can. I would say the benefit of understanding body language is a good one because you can tell what people are talking about not only by there voice but how there body goes along with it and it makes it easier to understand the person.

Part 3

            I think if we were able to use written language in part 1 to go along with everything else would have been easier because its another way we talk other than our body and hands and it would have just helped out a lot throughout the 15 minutes. The advantage of written language is a great advantage to the culture who developed and uses it because they passed down something of there’s to everyone else and now it’s used everywhere. The impact of written language throughout the globe has been a great impact. People have another way of talking rather than using there voice. If they cant find the words to say they can write it down and that’s how we got books, magazines and other forms of written language throughout the globe.