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الخميس، يوليو ٠٩، ٢٠٠٩

how to translate my personality!

Do you know what the language means? Have you ever thought about that before?
If you thought about that you will know that the language is a very important thing that we can't live without. Actually, this is a first way to communicate with people who we live with. And if you asked me why do we have to communicate with people? I'll answer that…

Let's imagine you don't know how to drive. Actually, you don't know how to communicate with this car… don't know how to change the speed…. How to stop it … how to avoid the others (cars or people) … if you don't know anything of these… you will clash at the first time you drive a car. maybe you will die!

However, if you drive well, but don't know the language of cars you will clash also. Yes, there is a language of the cars… the light language… if you want to turn left you have to switch on" or flash" left light… if you want to turn right you have to switch on right light… and so on. You have to know the cars front of you and behind you have the same language so as not to clash with them.

Briefly, it's not enough to know how to drive… you have to know how the others drive… how the others think… you have to learn how to communicate with the others before learning how to drive!

On the other hand, the languages are not just sentences arranged beside each other. The language isn't letters and words. No, there is some thing very important. It's the soul of the language. We have to try to know the soul of the language that we are learning. We have to know the right position of the word and what is the meaning of this word in this position… because maybe there are a lot of meanings to one word and when we put it in a sentence gives meaning but if we put the same word in a different sentence we will see another meaning… and vice versa.

Another thing, you have to feel language's words before you say it. For example, in the English language, if man loves a girl and wants to tell her” far away from his worried"…. He will tell her by a simple way "I love you"… maybe you see these words so simple, but actually, these are complicated! Sure, you know the meaning of the words in this sentence … you know pronoun "I" … word "love"…. Pronoun "you"… but do you know the real meaning of this whole sentence? Do you know the real meaning of these words when connected in one sentence? Do you know the soul of this sentence? Do you know the feelings when someone whose mother tongue is English hears this sentence?

Let's imagine, you like a girl and want to tell here "I love you" in Arabic language… actually, you want to tell here "bahbek"… do you think it's easy?!

Not just that, if this girl came to you and said "bahbek" what will you feel? Sure you will feel great feelings that are never like if she said "I love you". It is the soul of the language!
However, maybe the same sentence has different meanings. Depends on from whom and to whom this sentence was said.

For example, if you heard someone said "Dog, Go out"
What is the meaning If this sentence was said from Man to dog? Well, if it was said from the owner to his server what will be the meaning? From the server to his owner what will be the meaning? From the owner to himself what will be the meaning?
Briefly, you don't have to know all words of the language to know how to communicate and deal with people.

You have to know how to translate that you feel exactly.
You have to know how to translate your personality!

Posted by Mahmoud Hafez :: الخميس, يوليو ٠٩, ٢٠٠٩ :: 0 Comments: