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What would it be like for you to go to China or Russia, not knowing a word of their language? You would of-course be rather uncomfortable and quite lost in a language all so strange to your familiar. This is part of what the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis states except ....

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.... by language and by linguistic relativity, people who speak different language, perceive and think about the world quite differently. To help you get a better understanding of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis you’ll need a few examples. My father came to America to go to college in 1966. He had grown up in Malaysia with their culture and language. My father grew up as a bilingual speaker, knowing the Chinese language from his parent’s upbringing and the schooling in Malaysia taught him some English, yet his English was not quite perfect. When my Dad came to America he had trouble adjusting to the English way of speaking. He knew what the basi ....