Language and personality
The personality of people who are bilingual changes depending on which language they use, lending credence to the Czech proverb “Learn a new language and get a new soul”.Is this for real? Looking at my own experience, I am reminded of how I used to sense myself as though I were a different person according to the language I spoke, English or Romanian. Over time, an integrating effort took place and now this 'split' is no longer there.
I put it down to culture, though, not so much language. Going to the shrink must have helped, too. :-)
Here's the link of interest.
posted by Ciprian Man @ Friday, April 14, 2006
3 Comments:
One link for the interested :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sex/add_user.shtml?users=1
What about some neuroscience here?
We could just mention different neural centres, other zones of the brain being activated, even principal and secondary "values" (here is the cultural thing Cipi mentioned).
And something personal:
I agree with the proverb. I am bilingual (almost trilingual if we also count english, which became something like a partner in my greek-romanian bilingualism).
Yeah, sounds nice, doesn't it?
Thanks for your input, guys. I sure do appreciate it (though I'm not sure what the connection between languages and the brain's sex is... ;-) ). Here's more on this topic, on a conversation thread on the world's best translation company's discussion forum: http://www.lingo24.com/language_translation_forum/viewtopic.php?t=201 .
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