Week summaries

Week 2

This week we started seeing the history of language, basically when did humans learnt and developed language . We see that Humans managed to develop certain organs that enabled them to produce speech. In Prehistoric times, humankind was in contact with nature. As time passed, these early human groups started developing, having more members, and social needs began to arise as the society became more complex. There is a key moment in history that marked the difference between humans and animals. This is when humans learnt how to walk on two feet. Our bodies changed and we developed what we call the "pharynx", A vital organ for us to develop language.

We saw that language is a creative and flexible tool. As such its always in constant change, because every new generation learn a slightly different form of words and language than the previous one. For understanding better this we saw a video that include a very interesting story, the story of the tower of babel...

The biblical story of the tower of babel help us get a good example of the power language because when god punishes humans for trying to reach the sky, he develop different languages so that people wouldn't understand each other and they didn`t finish the tower because of their arrogance. The history also help us to understand more language diversity.