Unfortunately the last ToK class I took was almost a week ago and my mind is in a million different places right now but I hope I can explain myself clearly.
The quote I am most going to digress on is the quote "Who does not know another language cannot know his own."
In this I feel very strongly being bilingual and at the moment being in a situation with francophones, bilinguals, and anglophones all in one place mashed together. In the area of knowledge, Language, whether your first or your second gives you more than one perspective on a topic and broadens your knowledge of it. Two people don't translate a sentence exactly the same way, there interpretation is differnt because they have learned something about their own language or their second language that differs from someone elses. I also feel that you need to know and truly understand another language not just be able to say a few phrases in order to gain knowledge of your own language. When I was young, I knew how to count to ten in Japanese, that knowlegde of those words in that language gave me no further insight to English, and yes I was very young but it never did even when I retained that knowledge through the years. Now that I am fluent, or at least was and now am gaining it back, in French, I feel more in tune with English, and can say that it has given me new perspectives.
That is all I have time to write today... Another time I suppose then. toodles.
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