Reflection: How do I understand language?

My college entrance examination English 138, all the optional questions get full marks, but now I don’t know what is called object complement, what is predicative clause.

Now I read English news or documents without too many obstacles.

What do I want to express?

I want to say that I don’t need English grammar, and I can learn English well. When my peers are up and down in the complex grammar world, I just keep reading English materials, and then help others explain complex sentences. I was either in a daze or read the book by myself, but when he practiced the so-called sentence elements on the PPT, I could translate the Chinese meaning by just looking at the sentence and ensure that others could understand it. Do I need to know which part corresponds to which sentence component? I think I am asking for trouble.

I never use English as a test pass. English is a tool for me to understand the world.

My starting point is very simple. My Chinese proficiency is better than a non-native Chinese student who majors in Chinese at any top university. I can accurately express very complex concepts in Chinese. Is it because I have studied Chinese language at a top university?

No, I just use Chinese every day, I express everything in Chinese, I think everything in Chinese, so I am much better than any foreigner who learns Chinese.

The same logic, if I want to master a language, I try to use it to express everything and think about everything.

Again, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, or any other languages ​​are all carriers of thought.

All people in the world are of the same species. They can marry each other and give birth to fertile offspring. They have similar genetic makeup, physiological structure, and the brain has a similar structure. The material world we face has different combinations, but the basic elements are It's the same, so humans can communicate with each other, to a certain extent, only in depth.

People in the same geographical environment have more similarities in language structure.

The language difference between marine civilization and farming civilization is greater than the difference under the same civilization. For example, it is difficult to explain the concepts of "filial piety" and "the golden mean" to an American.

However, different languages ​​can translate each other. Imagine that in the early days of civilization, there were no translations between different languages. How did they communicate? How did the hundreds of pages of English-Chinese dictionaries come from? Was it invented by a prophet? No, it was a simple concept at first, and then it was continuously expanded to the current number of entries.

Language does not exist because of the existence of grammar. Language is an externally encoded form of internal structure. The human brain naturally has the language ability in a biological sense, and only humans themselves are left to fill it. In Asia, it is filled in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.; in Europe, it is filled in English, French, Italian, etc.

So we can learn any language, as long as a language exists and can communicate effectively, then other humans can learn it.

If there is an alien civilization, we can communicate with it to a certain extent, because we live together in a world governed by the same laws of physics.

 


Similarly, I have the same view on all programming languages.

All programming languages ​​express logic. It's just that because of different interpreters, different programming languages ​​have different manifestations. However, a qualified programming language has sequence structure, conditional structure, loop structure, variables, functions, etc. No matter how you name it, it has to complete a certain logical operation.

On this basis, I always pay attention to the logical points of a language, to see how it expresses a logic, rather than whether it has semicolons, how many keywords, etc.

 

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