
An Educated Adult - with Tadashi Tokieda
The Numberphile Podcast
00:00
The Fascination and Emotional Power of Languages
Discovering the emotional power of languages can be a striking experience. While learning foreign languages in Japan is often seen as remote, the speaker questions if it's possible to truly live, express emotions, and experience joy and sorrow in English alone. Japanese, on the other hand, is presented as a language with the necessary emotional depth for human beings. However, in Europe, the speaker was shocked to find people falling in and out of love in different languages, which ignited a fascination or obsession with languages.
Transcript
Play full episode