This helps me understand that the process of acquiring a language is a multi-step process that occurs within my brain. There are localized regions within the brain that aid more towards language. For example, as a right-handed person, I’m more likely to use the left hemisphere of my brain to process my acquisition of language. There are a number of steps taken by the brain to process information within a language. Even within pronunciation of a word, the brain takes steps to spell out each sound. Although it is difficult to technically apply to this to my studies in Korean, it still helps to understand the basic structures of language, and how everything connects to the sounds we make to the meaning words have.
Another way that this can help is through the way we analyze meaning in certain words. This is done through collocation, and how words are defined by the context around them. An example, that the passage provides is the phrases “green with envy”. Even though green doesn’t correlate to envy, we can analyze the meaning of it based on the words it’s used with. This is why vocabulary is so important, and this can help me shape my language learning process by understanding more vocabulary and the phrases that Korean uses.
Lastly, by understanding that different languages have different lexemes, I can expand my knowledge of not only my language learning process, but understanding the cultures behind the language.
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