2. Part # 1: Mandarin Chinese.
Part # 2: English.
Part # 3: German.
Part # 4: French.
Part # 5: Italian.
Part # 6: Spanish.
Part # 7: How many languages are spoken in the world?
Part # 8: What are some advantages of learning languages?
Part # 9: The language of math.
Part # 10: The language of coding.
Part # 11: Sign language.
Part # 12: Body language.
Part # 13: Languages of love.
Part # 14: The language of music.
4. 12 Chinese words / phrases
English Chinese pronounciation
Hello Nihao
How are you? Nihao ma?
I am ok. Haixing
And you? Ni ne?
See you later. Dzeye jyen
I would like Wor yaoww....
Yes Shrr
No Boo-shrr
Thank you Sshyeah-sshyeah
Sorry Dway-boo-chee
My name is Wo xing....
Bon appetit Manman chi
5. Some sources of inspiration
http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/phrasebook/
http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/mandarin.php
http://www.standardmandarin.com/chinese-phrases
http://translate.google.com/#en/zh-CN/person
http://youtu.be/qR72RnEwl0M
14. Italian is the official language of Italy and parts of
Switzerland.
Italian is also used by some people living in, for
example, Malta, Libya, Somalia, Slovenia, Croatia,
USA, UK, Argentina and Australia.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/britishcouncil.uk2/files/languages-for-the-future-report_0.pdf
19. Part # 7
How many languages are
spoken in the world?
20. 6,000 to 7,000 languages
are spoken in the world.
http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languages
http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_pagel_how_language_transformed_humanity.html, minute 14.
https://youtu.be/VQRjouwKDlU
21. Each dot = the geographic center of the world’s languages
http://www.ethnologue.org/country_index.asp
22. On the island of Papua New Guinea, a country
with a population of about 6 million people, more
than 800 different languages are used.
Sources
http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_pagel_how_language_transformed_humanity.html, minute 15.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/01/10/168878237/jared-diamond-a-new-guinea-
campfire-and-why-we-should-want-to-speak-five-languag
26. Choosing a common language can dramatically improve
how employees collaborate across borders - even though
it also introduces new challenges.
The decision to adopt a common language must be
balanced with the need to speak local languages and
adapt to local cultures.
https://hbr.org/2014/09/whats-your-language-strategy/ar/1
27. Part # 8
What are some advantages
of learning languages?
29. A study showed that bilingual children were better at
guessing what people were thinking, perhaps
because they are constantly monitoring who in their
world spoke what language.
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21696489-advantages-working-your-own-language-are-obvious-those-working-foreign
30. Bilingual people are more efficient at
higher-level brain functions such as
ignoring irrelevant information.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/study-shows-that-people-who-speak-two-languages-have-
more-efficient-brains/2014/11/18/e027a27e-6a7c-11e4-9fb4-a622dae742a2_story.html
32. Because words in a second language, when
learned later in life, do not carry the same
emotional impact as the words of one's
native tongue, individuals made more
rational decisions when using their
second language.
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/how-knowing-a-foreign-language-results-in-more-rational-decisions
33. If you speak 2 languages, dementia
is less likely to set in.
https://youtu.be/VQRjouwKDlU minute 6.
34. Language training is an important investment in
employees. However, to reach cultural fluency,
more work is needed.
Language fluency does not equal cultural fluency.
https://hbr.org/2014/09/whats-your-language-strategy/ar/1
40. Why shouldn’t people
understand how to
“speak” JavaScript?
Chamath Palihapitiya
http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/High_Tech_Telecoms_Internet
/Managing_disruptive_technology_A_conversation_with_investor
_Chamath_Palihapitiya
47. Research shows that when we look at a smiling emoticon
on the Internet, the same parts of the brain are activated
as when we look at a real human face.
http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2015/01/25/7-reasons-use-emoticons-social-media-according-science
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3033794/evidence/the-neuroscience-of-emoticons
54. While Westerners see direct eye contact as
indicating honesty, it may be interpreted as
threatening in East Asia.
http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1149&context=tepper
55. Research shows that
a firm handshake is
positively related to
being extrovert.
https://hbr.org/2014/06/to-negotiate-effectively-first-shake-hands/