What shapes language diversity?
Learning a language takes immense effort and time. At one point, you start to wonder why the human race started using different languages and what […]
Articles by Min Suh Seh
Learning Mandarin makes you more musical?
If you are a Mandarin learner, you know that the first thing you learn is how to say “ma” in four ways. A recent study […]
Becoming Bilingual: An Asset, Not a Waste
Hector Tobar, a professor of journalism at the University of Oregon and the author of the novels The Barbarian Nurseries and The Tattooed Soldier, wrote […]
Body Language in Presidential Debate
Body language can sometimes convey meanings that verbal languages cannot do. Body language also provides critical insight to what the speaker actually feels and what […]
China claims that more people can speak Mandarin
According to Reuters article, Chinese officials claim that more than 70 percent of the population can now speak Mandarin, the official national language of China. […]
Foreign Language Helps Decision Making
Following from our previous post on foreign languages and sharpened brain, here’s another interesting study of using foreign languages. Researchers at the University of Chicago […]