After reading the two readings, I realized that a lot of how we process things had to do with biology, or in this case how the brain functions. I did not think about how much brain power goes into the ability to say a sentence, or even just a few words. When the How the brain handles languages reading started discussing how for right-handed people, the left hemisphere of the brain is dominant in analytical tasks, logical organization, language, etc, while the right hemisphere deals with creative sensibility, musical patterns, recognition, etc. Reading that particular part, made me think back to all those test that I used to take about are you left brain dominant or right dominant and for me, I always feel in the middle because neither side was more dominant than the other. In a way I liked that because I like for there to be balance and harmony. In regards to learning Korean, this could perhaps indicate that I will probably do well with learning it because I will try to find creative ways along the way to enhance my language learning. In the other reading, How we mean, what I found interesting is how in the English language the word mean can have so many interpretations such as, intend to, referring to, etc. So this reminded me how in the languages that we’re learning certain words can have more than one meaning.
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