Alina Drozdenko

I'm trilingual (Catalan, Spanish, English) & currently studying Swedish and I've found myself using all my languages to properly convey what I'm saying, which infuriates my family lol. It just expands my ability to say what I want to say without having to be restricted to one language.

I'm also learning Spanish, and one thing that caught my attention is how the question “What do you work with?” is translated as “¿A qué te dedicas?”. It’s closer to “What do you dedicate yourself to?”, which feels like something you put effort and meaning into

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, or linguistic relativity, proposes that the specific language a person speaks influences and shapes how they think, perceive, and experience the world.

This means different languages can lead to different worldviews and cognitive patterns.

Allow me to try convincing you that although language is likely not deterministic, it can have an impact on the way you think, the way you learn, the habits you pick up, and the decisions you make﹣especially if we don’t actively try to expand our horizons past that which we’ve been served.