(Auf Luft sein)Do Not Speak but Shout
(Ne pas parler mais crier)
On August 27, 2007, I wrote about "Crisis of Decent Languages." Now New York Times have focused on the endangered languages in the world today.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/science/19language.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin)
New York Times should respect the Japanese language, since Japanese may be the closest one among major Asian languages to those spoken by indigenous people of Americas due to their assumed split just 12,000 years ago and DNA proofs on their closeness (though a related study was done between a tribe in the Andes and the Ainu sub-race among the Japanese population).
Specifically they write the following way:
"Many of the 113 languages in the region from the Andes Mountains into the Amazon basin are poorly known and are giving way to Spanish or Portuguese, or in a few cases, a more dominant indigenous language. In this area, for example, a group known as the Kallawaya use Spanish or Quechua in daily life, but also have a secret tongue mainly for preserving knowledge of medicinal plants, some previously unknown to science."
(In addition, the Chinese language and the Japanese language are essentially different just like English and Hebrew, though there are many common Kanji expressions like related languages such as English and Latin.)
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According to the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper today, US families that use solely English in their home account for 80% of all the American families.
Other major languages spoken solely in some US families (which account for 20% of all the American families) are:
1...Spanish: 62%
2...Chinese: 4.4%
3...French: 2.7%
3...Tagalog (Philippine): 2.7%
4...German: 2.2%
4...Vietnamese: 2.2%
(For instance, families corresponding to 12.4% of all the US families today speak only Spanish in their home.)
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Especially, the US is a society where speaking dominates.
However, Japan is a society where writing dominates.
If you cannot speak English quickly and mightily, you cannot be regarded as clever, smart, and eligible for promotion in any US organizations or communities.
It looks however like an ugly habit of a wild multi-race and multi-culture society where an Anglo-Saxon race is using every trick to keep their dominance leveraging their native ability of English.
Indeed, it is said that it is only 20 seconds that ordinary US citizens can concentrate on a specific topic in conversation. But, you have to just keep on speaking adding immaterial details to keep your dominance and prove your ability in conducting English conversation.
My advice to poor Americans is that they should not try to be rich by speaking such a manner but keep silent and find a way for improving their situation waiting for divine revelation on any circumstances.
Do not try to win a competition just by speaking English endlessly on immaterial topics, since it makes both the speaker and listeners meaner and more foolish.
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Especially, the US is a society where speaking dominates.
However, Japan is a society where writing dominates.
That is why there are so many British and Americans who try to assess ability of Japanese solely relying on their standards of speaking dominance all fail in performing correct evaluation.
(Churchill and Roosevelt represent such British and Americans.)
This Japanese success and prosperity in these centuries has been built by Japanese solely relying on their own language which no American elites can even read and write or properly speak.
In addition, majority of ancestors of contemporary Americans spoke a language different from English. But, most of them could not succeed in their home countries, so that they thought English is more valuable than their mother tongue. It promotes arrogance of their descendants to home countries of their ancestors. The only exception may be Japanese Americans, though I am not so sure about it.
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Once a Japanese researcher in human science visited the Philippines and communicated friendly with Tagalog-speaking people.
He found similarity in subtle, elegant, fine, and attentive expressions between Tagalog and Japanese.
He also realized that English is really a language characterized by wild, coarse, and superficial expressions on human emotions and sense.
Some of ancestors of contemporary Japanese should come from islands in the Philippines and other South West Pacific islands, which makes a big difference between Japanese and Koreans (though it is said that a mainstream of Japanese ancestors were from the Lake Baikal area in western Siberia, according to a result of gene study).
Indeed, there are many basic language features in Japanese that can be traced back to old traditions of marine cultural area around the western Pacific and beyond as far as Hawaii and the Indian Ocean.
But, as one of major successors of the ancient Yellow River Civilization that emerged in the Chinese Continent 4,000 years ago, Japan has developed very advanced writing systems while importing many abstract concepts and expressions through Confucianism and Buddhism.
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This is why Japanese look like a kind of fools in speaking but a genius in writing, which even Chinese admits, if you can communicate in Japanese.
So, my advice to Japanese is not speak English but shout it in conversation with British or Americans, since they never respect Japanese speaking English.
But, poor Americans should respect Japanese who speak whatever little English; then Japanese will love them.
(Indeed, like Arabic and Hebrew, Japanese is also a sacred language for Shintoism.
But, when will English become a sacred or holy language, though I love the King James Version of the Bible? Poor Americans must yet work it out very hard, say, without singing Mafia's hymns.
The big issue is, however, which is truly advantageous for a man to have a single language system inside or a multi-language system inside in order to win the final victory in any human competition.
Maybe you have to apply a different language-education method to girls and boys, respectively, in the ultimate sense.
Finally, what do you think very personally?......Finalement, que pensez-vous très personnellement?)
"...For if they did, they would turn to God, and He would forgive them..."