How did people who speak different languages communicate in the past if language barrier is a thing even now?
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Gestures. Lots and lots of gestures. Surely you know the stereotype about Italians gesturing a lot? Well, it so happened that Italy was so fragmented that every town had its own language, often unintelligible even to the next town. So they had to adapt to talk to each others using gestures.
Gestures. Lots and lots of gestures. Surely you know the stereotype about Italians gesturing a lot? Well, it so happened that Italy was so fragmented that every town had its own language, often unintelligible even to the next town. So they had to adapt to talk to each others using gestures.
Sometimes traders would take a young person, not always willingly, with them and let them learn the language by exposure. Then they would be a translator.
Sometimes traders would take a young person, not always willingly, with them and let them learn the language by exposure. Then they would be a translator.
I work with a lot of people that don’t speak my language. Hand gestures/pointing and body language go a long way.
I work with a lot of people that don’t speak my language. Hand gestures/pointing and body language go a long way.
Pantomiming is pretty effective at getting your point across. Way back when I was still in high school we had some Japanese girls come visit Australia for two weeks. Despite me basically not knowing any Japanese what so ever and the girls having a very limited understanding of English we still managed to hang out and have fun.
Pantomiming is pretty effective at getting your point across. Way back when I was still in high school we had some Japanese girls come visit Australia for two weeks. Despite me basically not knowing any Japanese what so ever and the girls having a very limited understanding of English we still managed to hang out and have fun.
Pantomiming is pretty effective at getting your point across. Way back when I was still in high school we had some Japanese girls come visit Australia for two weeks. Despite me basically not knowing any Japanese what so ever and the girls having a very limited understanding of English we still managed to hang out and have fun.
Well its a bit dark but sometimes they’d take orphans maybe 8 to 15 years old and let them live with the people they intend to learn their language. Brits did it with the native Americans but some of them got eaten, some tribes practiced cannibalism
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