Multilingual In-Depth

In previous article I addressed speaking more than one language gaining a lot advantages, such as more job opportunities, can talk to wider range of people and have an easier time on vacation. This time I will describe my research of multilingual in many different views.

There are also several truths that speaking multiple languages benefits your brain – whether you grew up multilingual or started learning a new tongue later in life. Here are some of my favorites.

1.     Speaking multiple languages helps protect against dementia.

A 2012 study from the University of California, San Diego evaluated the bilingual proficiency of 44 elderly Spanish-English bilinguals. They found that the higher your level of proficiency, the later you were likely to experience Alzheimer’s symptoms. 

2.     Health benefits of multilingualism and bilingualism.

Despite the growth of multilingualism in different parts of the world, there are controversies on the positive and negative impacts of bilingualism on the education of children. Studies have brought part of the answer to frequent questions such as: are bilingual children distressed? Does multilingualism make children smarter? Defenders of multilingualism assert that speaking another language contributes to an intelligent and healthy brain whereas opponents of multilingualism vehemently insist that speaking another language does not make children smarter and that on the contrary, it can disturb their learning journey. Researcher Ellen Bialystok examined the effect of multilingualism on Alzheimer's disease and found that it delays its onset by about 4 years. The researcher's study found that those who spoke two or more languages showed symptoms of Alzheimer's disease at a later time than speakers of a single language. Interestingly, the study found that the more languages the multilingual knows, the later the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Multilingualism aids in the building up of cognitive reserves in the brain; these cognitive reserves force the brain to work harder—they, themselves, restructure the brain. Multilingualism leads to greater efficiency of use in the brain, and organizes the brain to be more efficient and conservative in using energy. More research is required to determine whether learning another language later in life has the same protective effects; nonetheless, it is evident from the variety of studies performed on the effects of multilingualism and bilingualism on the brain, that learning and knowing multiple languages sets the stage for a cognitive healthy life.

3.     Speaking multiple languages improves your memory.

It takes a LOT of memory to remember just one language, let alone two or more. So it’s no surprise that multilingual speakers have a better working memory than monolingual ones.

4.     Speaking multiple languages improves your ability to multitask.

Multilingual speakers are used to switching mentally between tongues. All that practice means they’re also better at multitasking.

5.     Multilingual people process information more efficiently.

A 2014 study found that multilingual speakers were “comparatively better at filtering out unnecessary words than monolinguals.” This also means that multilingual people have greater comprehension than their monolingual counterparts.

6.     Multilingual people are less likely to be persuaded.

This doesn’t mean they’re immune to good arguments; rather they’re “more resistant to conditioning and framing techniques,” according to a 2014 study. This could be because it’s easier to keep psychological distance from a language when it’s not your mother tongue.

7.     Multilingual people are creative problem-solvers.

Speaking a language is a creative process, as you use imagery and create varying forms of syntax. Since multilingual speakers have more practice at this creative process, Psychology Today says they have an easier time coming up with creative problem-solving techniques than monolinguals.

8.     Speaking multiple languages changes your brain structure.

Did you know that being multilingual literally changes your brain? One study found that learning a new language increases the neural connections in your brain, which is crucial to brain health.

9.     Speaking multiple languages opens your mind.

Just like your body, your brain gets healthier as it gets more active. When you speak a foreign language, you’re opening yourself up to a world of possibility that’s not available to monolingual speakers. Multilingualism lets you talk to more people and interact with different cultures. All those diverse experiences are great for your brain.

10.  Bilingual development and exposure.

Research on bilingual speakers shows that information about both languages is activated in the brain even when a speaker is only using one language. Some research shows that, because bilingual speakers access linguistic information in their brain differently from monolingual speakers, they have an advantage in language processing, and they outperform monolingual speakers in reaction times for language processing and then producing relevant language in certain tasks. However, other studies have found that this may not be applicable to all bilinguals.

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Writing Your Name in Japanese Kanji

Domo Konnichiwa,

As always, the atmosphere still about Japanese.

This article marks what Japanese Fans probably wanted to read.

Imagine your name written graphically unique strokes in Japanese character that you want to put it in your room or even make a tattoo for it.
For beginner of Japanese learner this probably leading to a disappointment.
The regular terms for writing your name (non-Japanese) into Japanese is not as some sort of poetic composition as Kanji. Instead, character that do not carry any deeper beyond meaning as Katakana being used to writing non-Japanese names.

Katakana is based on reproducing the alphabetical and vocal pronunciation into Japanese.

For Instance is my own name

Fullname :

 Hadimas Adi Pamungkas Choirul Amir

Katakana :

ハディマス　アディ　パムンカス　コイルる　アミル

Nickname :

Hapka

Katakana :

ハプカ

You can try your name in here, even though there is some sort of rules to synchronize the origin pronunciation of your name into Japanese pronunciation.

However, you can not really writing your name in Japanese Kanji while your name is not in Japanese. Understand that whatever you got from your friend, when Japanese people (or at least people with knowledge of the Japanese language) meet foreigners and need a quick conversation topic, they often like to jump on the name and “turn it into kanji”, as an ice breaker.

Or there are one of two things. They either take the sound of your name, and then deliberately search for the most resemble Japanese Kanji possible to use as syllables, For example my nick name Hapka could be segmented into the three sounds ha-pu-ka. In that scheme, the “Ha” part could be something like 葉 (leaves), 羽 (feather) or 映 (project,reflect), while the “pu” could be 風 or 符 or 布 (wind/symbol/style), and so on.
For the result write Hapka as “Leaves the extraordinary symbol” 葉符力 like this, or “Deer feather style” 羽布鹿, or… well, you probably get it.

You may found some trick to pronounce those kanji in an obscure way that mimics the sound of your name. but any other Japanese person would not be able to read it.
In fact, they wouldn’t even be able to tell that it is a name at all.
So, unfortunately: no, whatever you got there is absolutely not “your name in Japanese kanji”. Because outside of jokes or party tricks, there is no real way to create something like that. So please don’t make the mistake of printing anything like it on business cards.

The other way to find your Japanese Kanji name is by translating your name into Japanese name itself..
First thing first is find meaning of your name, you can find it by asking your parents or simply googling it.
I use my name for example again

Hadimas : Brother
Adi : The
Pamungkas : Last
Choirul : Excellent / Righteous
Amir : King / Leader

So it can be pronounce as The Last brother an Excellent King.

If you already find the meaning of your name, the next step will be discover the common Japanese names related to your name. 
For my name, the possible matches are
Family name : Oosue 大末(The Great Last), Hikozaka 彦坂 (The Hill Prince), Yoshihiko 吉彦(The Good Prince)

Surname : 
Shoichiro 正一郎 (Right First Son),  王良 (Good King), 末利 (Last Winner), 末男 (Last Man)

So the fullname will be :

大末 正一郎

彦坂 末利

吉彦 末男

You can find the actual names that Japanese used in here.

If you understand my concept you can try it to your self and find plenty customization, Enjoy..
Sorry for anyone held by that name and have a different opinion and deeper meaning, this is just personal idea.

But no matter whether they go, either way the results of this game are invariably utterly nonsensical to anyone else, and do not produce an actual usable name.

Writing Katakana

Japanese names (Kanji)

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Homo Sapiens

世に不思議は多けれど、どれほど奇天烈、奇奇怪怪な出来事も、人がいなければ、人が見なければ、人が関わらなければ、ただの現象。過ぎて行くだけの事柄。人こそ、この世で最も摩訶不思議なモノ。
There are many unusual things in this world.
No matter how strange it is, even a bizarre events occure since there is no one involved, no one see, and no one there, it will be just phenomena. It will just go unnoticed matter.
But in this world the people itself, are the most mysterious of them all.

(xxxholic, Dimension Witch : Ichihara Yuko)

                             xxxxholic, Ichihara Yuko Anime          Drama
  

Divided by differences making human more complicated.
The main factor affected by characteristic, cultural, and biologic. Even though considering to diversity, there are zoon politicon theory, an Aristotle explanation of human living in a society governed by laws and customs, explaining rational being are need eachother.

So harmonizing to pursuit wisdom and balance is necessary in order to acknowledge with others.

An old wiseman said "You need to know your self to know others, then let others know you to move on."

This article addressing collected information to identify personality and diversity.

Character

In psychology the outstanding theory over personality is MBTI 16personalities, a theory adopted from Carl Jung's ideas and developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katherine Cook Briggs, categorized people into primary types of psychological function in:

• Attitudes               : Introvert (I) & Extrovert (E)
• Irrational (Perceiving) : Intuition (N) & Sensation (S)
• Rational (Judging)      : Thinking (T) & Feeling (F)
• Cognitive Domination    : Judging (J) & Perceiving (P)

My MBTI test result

Nevertheless long before that, an historical physician Hippocrates suggests that there are four fundamental personality types according to temperaments; Sanguine (enthusiastic, active, and social), Choleric (short-tempered, fast, or irritable), Melancholic (analytical, wise, and quiet), and Phlegmatic (relaxed and peaceful). However this theory has been rejected by later discoveries in biochemistry of modern medicine science. Even the 16 personalities has been revised for additional function of "strategy" layer over "attitudes" function that is Assertive and Turbulent . Perhaps affected 16 personalities becoming 32 personalities?🤔

The other famous psychology test that more familiar are IQ(Intelectual Quotient), EQ(Emotional Quotient), SQ(Spiritual Quotient), CQ(Creativity Quotient), etc. even a PQ(Physical Quotient). Thoose intelligences measuring commonly used over the job apply, university entry, and school.
In conclussion, all of psychology test are meant to help mankind success in their own categorizing method. As the simple goal we can see in science-fiction movie "Divergent". They plotting human inside the wall in some category and let them learn in community their belong to. Until some people that not purely belongs to one community revealed called divergent.

Even later there are more stories,  but lets just taking only on that point.

In our story, we'll find the same case in psychology tests. While we are not belong to one category. For example when we are taking 16 personality test and see the result, later under circumtances we'll have another definition as result. So thoose people are divergent?

The famous IQ test also do either declining or increasing result.

It means that people are changing.

The character dynamic is affected by environment, knowledge, and even physical condition.

Culture

The modern term "culture" is based on a term used by the Ancient Roman orator Cicero, he wrote of a cultivation of the soul or "cultura animi", using an agricultural metaphor for the development of a philosophical soul, understood teleologically as the highest possible ideal for human development. The Cambridge English Dictionary states that culture is "the way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time."

The culture itself refer to aspects of human behavior, such as language, social practices such as kinship and marriage, expressive forms such as art, music, dance, ritual, and religion, and technologies such as cooking, shelter, and clothing are said to be cultural universals, found in all human societies.

Multicultural is one form of the world we are living now. Globalization era in mandatory of harmonizing and facing the differences among one culture to another causing a major problem. Cultural influence such as truth seeker and philosophy matters still creating boundaries provoke the problems occured in long period of time, even for now. Law and agreement appeared just developing tolerable and synchronizing the multicultural as salad bowl. Meanwhile not all culture having common purpose or even having an opposite view into another. For example the religion as culture claiming truth provoke the war and many other negative manner that still happen uptill now. 

Imagine if the world having one form culture as the science and technology commited a worldwide acceptance then be able to creating more and more improvements. The worldwide way of culture may also improve.

World Culture Festival 2016, India

Biology

This is the only undeniable different in our world. The absolute identity coming since we are born and can not be change (except the ghost in shell movie become true). In biological anthropology separate human race in 3 main group category with focus on skeletal anatomy, especially cranial morphology, over skin tone.

1. Mongoloid

2. Caucasoid

3. Negroid

Biological identity is suitable for the salad bowl concept. There is no specific issue in mixing multirace in one. Even half race born child has appeared from long time ago and having no problem other than cultural issue.

All of diversity; character, cultural and biological identity, having an interconnection providing specific details about personality (Coming soon in my next update: "Face"). Such as character from cultural and biological, biology from culture and so on.

One definition is not conduit to preordained biography. Its fragile and limited, because not every question have one true answer (except for biological identity). To conclude, any definition true or false should not be made lightly. It can still alter person's path..

TO BE CONTINUE

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友情

友情は、 愛情 とはいささか異なったものである。

さらに友情は、原則的には、 兵士 、 消防 士、 ボーイスカウト 、あるいは研究チーム、スポーツ選

手、チームやグループでの活動仲間、 労働組合 の仲間といったよう場合に見られる連帯意識とは

区別して考えられるべきものである。

それでも相性が分からない。

最も繋がりの弱いものとしては「知り合い」、最も繋がりの強いものとしては「生涯の 親友 」がある。

友情は、結ぶものと結ばれるものの間で行われてるやり取りこと。

互いの好感、信頼、価値評価に基づいて成り立っているものである。

一般には友達の中でも特に親しい人間であり、自分を犠牲にできるかで友情の有無を量れるもの

である。幸せな時ではなく、何か問題が起こったときにこそ、友人は愛情を見せてくれるものとする。

どんな小さな出会いでも出来事でも、誰と誰かの縁は既に関わりが生まれている。

影響は必ず及ぶもの。どれほど短い時間でも、結ばれた縁は消えない。

人生の中で起こる全ての出来事には意味があるってこと。

同僚

船橋市の外人同市

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MULTILINGUAL

There are only 250 countries in the world corresponding to some 6000 languages, which means that most countries are multilingual and most languages therefore exist in close contact with other languages.*Romaine, Suzanne (2001). "Multilingualism". In Mark Aronoff; Janie Rees-Miller. The Handbook of Linguistics. Blackwell. pp. 512–533. 

We notice there are similarities or even identical words in one language with another, consequently we are able to learn another language. Even though we need to learn the sentences and terms to making real progress. However this awareness helping we connected and share with another language speakers to provide the globalization era. 

I address the ability to learn another languages as Lilog “Linguistic Logical”, the thinking patterns ability to read the language form and manage to use or interpret it. 

Lilog is not coming from a miracle nor a special talent. It can be learn by anyone and anytime through the circumstances. The main idea just like how the baby learn to talk. Fuck me so you stop baby talking ～ ;P

Measuring Lilog is by the right method and the right time in learning. Some people maintained to learn another language by intensive contact with the mother tongue speakers. While the other learning method is not much contact with language speakers but read more common books. Therefore revealing the Lilog is the very first step in entering another language to decide the suitable method.

Power of multilingual is very legitimate. It helping to expand knowledge by learning another culture, an absolute necessary for diplomatic matter, and even people said learning multilingual could make a better personality. In modern era's simple reason, it definitely can helping our career in business with multilingual involved. Even though translating alternative are improving, the multilingual speakers are still attractive in both social and business matters.

Missandei (Woman in Left), Daenery's Translator in Game of Throne

Fantasy figure for Multilingual Speaker

If your motivation is filled enough, Lets begin to learn another language then!
Awakening the Lilog is divided by 3 ways.

1.     Knowledge 

Learning another language means learning almost 70% of the native user's cultures. In Indonesian phrase said "Tak kenal maka tak sayang"~ if we don't know we're not loving, a word that common used for an introduction, is exploit our mind to paying attention into something we want to learn. In language case we have to learn related matters to the language's environment, such as working culture, entertainment, culinary, and obviously social environment is necessary to be learned. The main reason of those is for updating knowledge and gathering the vocabularies as much as we can.

2.     Language lesson

Certainly learning the language form it self is an absolute requirement in studying language. Even better with the language lesson course.Common lesson is about reading, sentences, and pronunciation (listening, speaking).

3.     Connecting

After we downloaded the vocabularies and learning the language form, the next step is build connection with the language users.Verbal communication is the most effective one, on the other hand mono learning method such as watching television, hearing music, and reading is the best alternative when finding the common speaker is difficult.

Those are common method to awakening Lilog. The most suitable method either applying one or even whole step is the one you should find out.  After we recognizing Lilog, seize another Languages would be much easier.

Check out my profile to proceed Japanese-English-Indonesian Language lesson interval or translation service.

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