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The Bilingual Brain: And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

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“Around this time, I was again tested for partial deafness, for although I could speak I often didn't use language in the same way as others and often got no meaning out of what was said to me. Although words are symbols, it would be misleading to say that I did not understand symbols. I had a whole system of relating that I considered "my language." It was other people who did not understand the symbolism I used, and there was no way I could or was going to tell them what I meant. I developed a language of my own. Everything I did, from holding two fingers together to scrunching up my toes, had a meaning, usually to do with reassuring myself that I was in control and no one could reach me, wherever the hell I was. Sometimes it had to do with telling people how I felt, but it was so subtle it was often unnoticed or simply taken to be some new quirk that "mad Donna" had thought up.”

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“I was beginning to think in Greek. That is the great Rubicon to cross in learning any language. Those in whom the Greek word lives only while they are hunting for it in the lexicon, and who then substitute the English word for it, are not reading the Greek at all; they are only solving a puzzle.”

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“En iyi din benim dinim değil, en iyi ülke benim ülkem değil, en iyi kültür benim kültürüm değil ve en iyi yaşam benim yaşamım değil şeklinde düşünmeye başladığında gerçeklere daha fazla yaklaşacaksın! Kibir, gurur ve önyargıdan uzaklaştıkça hakikate daha fazla yaklaşacaksın!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“Gördüğün şey olmak için düşünmeyi durdurmalısın! Çılgın dalgalar olmak için çılgın dalgaların önünde düşünmeyi bırakmalısın, bütün düşünceleri terk etmelisin!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
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