Language

People nowadays express their feelings and thoughts throughout speaking and listening, which is the most common thing in the world and it is the simplest way of communicating with other people. But, it would require something what we call it "language" for us to understand what she/he is trying to tell us and communicate without using body signs. The world just has developed a much simpler way of communicating but yet the problem was the requirement of the similar country language. There are more than 2000 languages in the world, and it is impossible for human to learn all of them, not even close to most of them. 

So what if there was a case where you and a person met but have totally different languages and couldn't communicate at all using words? There was a teacher called Mr. Tomalin who gave us a short story about his family member, whom wasn't part of his country and spoken different language but his experience was that it wasn't impossible at all to communicate fairly well. They would mostly be using body language and face expression, to understand each other and according to his story, he told us that he spent the whole day trying to communicate which came out to be successful and managed to learn some of her (his family member) language too. Thanks to Mr. Tomalin for sharing his interesting story in fact, related to our TOK topic and taught us that there are a lot of different ways to communicate besides using language.