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Hello readers

Hope you all are doing well

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out which they grow.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States .

The essential requirement for survival and enjoying this planet is communication, and we call our earth as organic, not because all species are alive and breathing; it is also because we all communicate.

We, humans, invented language; animals did not create but still have their own way of communication.

The languages were demographically split across the length and breadth of the globe, and many languages emerged.

So the populations across the globe started to evolve learnt languages invested time in research invented things which are useful for improving their standard of living all this is collectively called as a civilization.

Next came the explorations. They started discovering sea routes Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the globe. Columbus and Vasco da Gama found sea routes to Asia and India, Amerigo Vespucci to America, the world was not getting connected with its culture and knowing people.

So what was the barrier here, do you even think there were any barriers when two people from two unknown locations meet?

Of course, there the first among the many hurdles would be communicated.

There is a quote which goes back a long way “language is code” this is from the renaissance period, which was the first cultural and scientific change recorded in the modern period.

Language is a code, just look at India; it has so many styles and dialects, we may say the root of words in India is from the from Tamil and Sanskrit., and all other languages are branches of these languages. However, still, each style is unique in its own way.

The learning part is not so tricky; you learn a language at home that would be your traditional language or the famous mother tongue. The learning process evolves when you attend school when you meet new people and learn words as subjects in school, your language skills grow, as you are in the rhythm of learning each grade after grade.

Now there are so many languages in the world, imagine great leaders meet to discuss important issues which can change the status of countries by many ways, how do they communicate so quickly if they do not understand each other ?

Here come the translators. Who are they?

They are a group of people who are linguists who master many languages and help people of all walks of life and become a bridge between two people to convey their messages and help in the process of communication.

We have to realize this fact that translators were a key during the world war, they were considered as necessary as the red cross!

The motive behind this passage is that we are living in an information explosion era, where everything is just a finger swipe away.

But just think how we have arrived here, the methods they would have devised to understand languages and then translate it, it makes my head spin just to think of it.

After the lingual translation, there is another field of study called the specialized translation where professionals help the deaf and dumb people to understand the news, for instance, I feel these are righteous acts.

The latest advancement is the application world, and now you can learn, type and translate and understand any language you wish to,  some great applications like google translate, waygo, Microsoft translator, and text grabber have made this possible.

courtesy google images

I am particularly impressed by the ease of usage and dummy-proof of these apps.

I appreciate the developers because these are just  not a regular apps, they are  bringing the world together and  giving a new dimension to communication.

Try learning new languages, I think that is an excellent hobby , it helps you explore the world of literature .

Thanks for your support as always. Let me know your opinion.

Let’s all hope and pray the situation of the world improves 

my next blog is  on the pandemic.

Helios