Do you also appreciate the beauty of various languages to show global mindset ?

        It  is amazing to know that there is a very notable  difference  in terms  of the  basic  language structure  between the languages followed in  Western countries( such as  English, French , Greek , Spanish,  German, Polish &  Russian etc )   and   those  followed in  many of the  Asian countries (such as Hindi ,Japanese , Nepali , Burmese ,Sanskrit ,Tibetan ,Korean , Turkish & Urdu  etc) . Although ,   there are few flexibilities and exceptions  which  exist with almost every language on earth ,  but the basic structure more or less remains the same . The framework which has been explained below will clarify many of your doubts and will make you understand that why it is easier for a person who is in India (Asian country ) to learn Japanese than the one who is from any western country   .  One important point to remember is that, when it comes to learning a foreign language  , people tend to speak any  language that they are newly learning in the framework followed  in their own  mother tongue .So it is important to know about the distinct frame work between languages which have a different origin .

The frame work here refers  to the sentence structure with special emphasis on  Subject ,Object , Verb .  Subject is the person about whom the sentence is about ,Object gets related to the subject in that sentence &  Verb is the word which explains the activity/work  being carried out .

Here is an example of an English sentence :

Tom  is eating  an apple .

In this sentence Tom is the subject because it is the name of the person who is involved in the activity , ‘is eating’ links to the verb  &  ‘Apple’  is the object of this sentence.  For simplicity of naming here , lets denote Subject  as ‘S’, Verb as ‘V’  & Object  as ‘O’  , then we can form that the structure  for the above given sentence  or any other  English sentence  becomes :  S-V-O .

    Many of the Asian languages  have the structure  of a sentence of the form S-O-V . This is where the  main difference comes when it comes to learning foreign languages  or understanding them especially  in a case when a person from an Asian country frames an English sentence of the form S-O-V (different from the actual English form S-V-O) and creates confusion while communicating with a  person  who has English as the mother tongue  . These confusions sometimes lead to unjust understanding and so it is important to know more about the framework of global languages . Lets have the same (above discussed) sentence with the same meaning in Hindi & Japanese and see how sentence structure varies :

In Hindi the sentence  becomes :

 Tom  seb  kha raha  hai .  ( Tom is the subject(S) , ‘seb’ means apple that  is the object(O) & ‘ kha raha hai’ means ‘is eating’ that is the present continuous form of the  verb(V) ie: kha meaning ‘ to eat’).  

In Japanese language  the same sentence becomes :

Tom  san wa  ringo  o tabete imasu  ( Tom is the subject(S) , 'san' is always added after the name for giving respect to the person  , 'ringo' means  apple that is the object(O) & ‘tabete imasu’ means ‘is eating’ that is the present continuous form of the  verb(V) ie:  'taberu' meaning ‘ to eat’) .

 It can be seen from the above sentences that the  arrangement of S,O and V for the same meaning is different for different languages ie: For English it is ‘S-V-O’ but for Hindi & Japanese it is  “S-O-V” .

      Thus , the sentences from languages in western countries  which have words of Latin or Greek origin have the form S-V-O .  It is really awesome to appreciate the beauty of languages  that many of the Western languages have number of words of Latin origin and these languages have S-V-O structure but Classical Latin language has S-O-V structure . We may have to do a lot of reading to know  why it is so but one this worth praising for languages is that they have evolved a long way from thousands of years of human involvement with them .  So when it comes to learning of some of the major  Asian languages such as Japanese or Hindi  ,the people following S-V-O  structure of language will have to modify  the S,V,O arrangement   to make  it  of the form   origin(S-O-V)  . For doing this the brain has to put lot of efforts  because the mother tongue is the language which comes with instinct and  it the language in which the brain has been thinking for years based  on many years of training since birth due to the environment  provided to us  by our parents , teachers  and society .  Believe it or not , every single thought  that comes  to our mind at every point of time & even in our dreams  is in a language which is always our mother tongue that  we use to communicate with ourselves  especially in  important times of our life involving  feelings of  joy ,love or  fear etc .

 Some of the major languages which follow S-V-O sentence structure are :
Albanian, Bulgarian, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Ganda, German ,Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kashmiri, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Quiche, Rotuman, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, Chinese and Yoruba

           

 Some of the major languages which follow S-O-V  sentence structure are :
Ainu, Amharic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Burmese, Ancient Greek, Hindi, Hittite, Hopi, Hungarian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Classical Latin, Manchu, Marathi, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Quechua, Sanskrit, Seri, Sicilian, Sindhi, Sinhalese and most other Indo-Iranian languages, Somali and virtually all other Cushitic languages, Sumerian, Tibetan and nearly all other Tibeto-Burman languages, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and all other Dravidian languages, Tigrinya, Turkic languages, Turkish, Urdu, and virtually all Caucasian languages

   

The reason for India as one of  those countries which have people with the flexibility  to smoothly adapt to the grammer of  various foreign languages and  comfortably learn  them  :

     India is a very big country  with population around 1.2 Billion  and   you  can see  people following almost all the major religions of the world . There are 28 states &  7 union territories and it is really interesting to see that almost every state has its own language . There  are 33 regional languages recognized in India  out of which many have diversified scripts (written form) totally different from one another. Out of these languages  22  have  the status of official languages and have around 2000 different  dialects linked to them  . Hindi is the national language and English is the official language for administrative purposes & for  imparting  education on various important fields of study all over the country . It is because of  a big number of languages that “3 language formula” is very much  popular in India  which mentions that  Hindi is the national language followed by most of the people, English is the language for administrative purposes and the regional languages as the one which get used for all social interactions within any state . The fact that Indians can learn a new  language  little more faster is because of two most significant  reasons which are given below :

è 1)  Almost all of the Indian languages follow S-O-V structure (Kashmiri is an exception) and English is also a very much popular language because higher education in India  is in English that  has  S-V-O structure(as discussed in above paragraphs ) .Because both of the structures are so much popular in India it becomes easy for an Indian person to understand the structure of global languages and learn them with ease . For example : When I was learning basic Japanese conversation ,  I  knew that the sentence structure in Japanese is same as in Hindi , so whatever I could think in Hindi(my mother tongue)  I was readily able to frame the sentence in Japanese once I learned basic vocabulary .With no extra efforts , I could frame Japanese sentences because what happens in this scenario is that the sentence structure (S-O-V : which is same as of my mother tongue'Hindi') comes from instinct and I just need to put words in that structure to complete the full sentence  .This really works and you can try this on any language of the world that you want to learn after you know the sentence structure .

è 2)  Because there are 33 different regional languages in India , it can always be expected with high probability that every  person follows at least 3 to 4 regional  languages with ease .This happens because he/she has to interact with people from other states where they migrate for jobs or for their business networking . These regional languages have their distinct accents & pronunciations and being able to follow more than one regional language makes a person to promote extra flexibility to his tongue and be able to adapt to accents of various other languages by putting less efforts.

Conclusion : It is always beneficial to give prime focus to various languages which exist on  earth.  If we do so then we can better understand the framework of those languages and which in turn facilitates us to more clearly understand conversations in English language (a globally very popular business language) with someone who does not have the sentence structure (S-V-O) of English matching with his/her mother  tongue .Giving special focus on global languages and their framework makes us a more productive communicator and  shows  global mindset with distinct ability to  understand people’s  perspectives  to the best possible extent   . Moreover , many globally recognized researches have proved that trying  to learn and follow more languages  improves cognitive skills and even does essential  shielding against dementia in old age.

Written by :

Devesh  Sharma

devesh0102@gmail.com

What about the sense of urgency ? ( A motivational Poem )

Given below is the YouTube video link that will take you to the video narration of my self written motivational poem with Title : "What about the sense of urgency":
Narration of my self written Motivational Poem

What about the sense of urgency ?

We   drive  the future  of intelligent human race ,

now  giving up seriousness for right actions  at a rapid  pace ;

Never before in 4.5 Billion  years of  Mother Earth’s existence the ethical governance was disputed this way ,

and  now  it feels that  golden era will  only  come when God  hears us pray .

People seem to have lost their  identity  amidst of  coinages ,

while  ignoring  that  even promising youth has started behaving like  savages;

 What  is the need of trying to personalize the power of God-the  eternal ,

and  that  also to look for ways by which we can push one another in general.

Always heard that together we can bring valuable  changes ,

but how would it be when negativities in  minds  draw  negative inferences ;

In every 90 minutes International space station  completes  a revolution  around the earth ,

every time it passes by brings  data on manipulated  natural resources in dearth .

What  about  the lost opportunities  of education for children to be able to shine ,

do we still need a proof to declare that the absence of it brings setback for lifetime;

No one can deny that illiteracy  promotes  the adoption of actions that are malicious ,

how can we still believe that man’s  ability to reach moon is enough to make the taste of living on earth delicious.

Females   are’nt  safe  anywhere   &  are  in appallingly  serious  need ,

whom  would  you call upon for help when its urgency has still not got realized indeed;

What  about  those who have already  lost  hope in the society ,

nothing  changes  mate if you don’t  try to reach  problem’s  gravity .

Dangerously burnt  gases are filling the lungs of every little one ,

do we really want earth to be declared as “The house of none”;

Blame  game  would never help us at all ,

lets contribute with passion to avert  this steep fall .

 Moral Education in  practice  is the need of the hour ,

while praising each other  and refurbishing the  earth with a holy shower ;

Lets  define  Motivation with correctness  ,

it  is to transform  one’s helplessness to helpfulness.

 Whether or not the right approach will get adopted  is a big question ,

so  it  is high time to still delay  our actions  on breached ethics  and existing tension ;

It is with holy intention the world was  created with  phenomenal  selections   ,               

lets  prove  God that we have’nt  forgotten  the sanctity of earth while  manipulating the controlled dimensions  .

 

Poem written by :
Devesh Sharma
email ID : devesh_engineer1@yahoo.co.in
Linkedin profile : http://www.linkedin.com/in/devesh02

I hope you find this poem informative and worth sharing .

Why ? - The more important question for an Innovation’s success

Success of an innovation doesn't always get decided by the idea but by the way the innovation is presented to the people.

The right way is to follow : Why -> How- >What concept , which means that presentation about any innovation shall be in the steps as follows :
Why the idea was thought of and the innovation was done -> How was it worked on to bring a very unique & useful product out if it  - > What has it to offer the customers or users .
It is always important to first explain others about the reason for that idea to come up while laying stress on need definition and its ability to impact the society .This is how hearts are won and following of this method by an organization establishes that it keeps innovating new things while putting significant value on creativity apart from just laying stress on profitability from potential deals .This way the product gets considered as  "Distinctly special product" not as  "Just another product" .

Most organizations do either way around and follow What-> How -> Why and end up getting far less value/prospects  for their innovation because they follow the steps as to What they have for the people now -> How did they create it -> Why did they create it . Delaying explanation for "Why" seems much as a formality or may be an add on to the properties to an old product . Efforts put to do an innovation may get undermined this way .

You can easily see that the efforts put to do an innovation are same but due to the presentation at the time of its launch in public the outcomes  are different .

The involvement of Biology & Psychology in this phenomenon :
The outer part of the brain does the analytical thinking for a human body and hence does the detailed analysis on the specifications of any newly launched product . So, trying to explain about What ? to somebody at the time of launch in the very beginning immediately provokes the mind to diligently think about the specifications/criteria such as technical specifications , budget etc to be evaluated. This may lead to disagreement be felt  by customers on some of the features of the product . This is because of the extra seriousness that gets put on the specifications because that was the first thing offered to the customers/potential investors  to think about .
         On the contrary the central part of the brain governs a person’s emotional stability and is the interested participant for Why? .  Being able to touch the emotional state of customers is more than half the battle won to be able to convert the proposition to a final deal . After customers have liked the idea( Why?) and have got influenced with the uniqueness of the product it is quite easy to convince them for the buy out after they have understood the technical specifications (What?). This is because after this exercise(Why->How-> What) , technical specifications  become far less important than  is the uniqueness of the idea to product development . Later on , most of the people (especially from the elite class) then just wish to be the first one to purchase this distinctly visible innovation to boast about and become the first risk takers for buying the new development because of the surplus money they have .These elite class people are then visible in public and become the brand icon in the eyes of other common people and these common people later on rush to purchase these newly launched gadgets/products so that they can also be part of this premier league .
This holy provocation goes on in chain till a better product with more special features is launched in the market  and the time period  involved in this becomes the business period for the organization with their product .

It is very interesting to see that companies following( Why-> How-> What) concept have a longer business period for their products than happens for companies following (What-> How->What)concept as the phenomenon for launching their product . This can easily be noticed in the consumer electronics market .

So, Why ? as the first question to be answered proves more valuable  than What? in the context of presenting a new product or innovation .

by

Devesh Sharma

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