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February 24, 2023
Can you dream in another language?
Can you dream in another language? At first glance, it may not seem surprising that many multilinguals who juggle different languages during the day, and even people who are only beginning to learn a foreign language, also use those languages in their dreams. After all, the language we speak during the day generally carries over into our nights. A study of deaf people and people with hearing loss found, for example, that they communicated in dreams as they did when awake, through sign language. Many of us seem to categorise our dream languages in certain ways, by person, location or life stage. For example, the people in the dream may speak the languages they would speak in real life, while dreams about one's childhood home tend to be in one's childhood language. There are also linguistic anxiety dreams, in which the speaker struggles to make themselves understood in a foreign language, has to catch a train or plane from one linguistic setting to another, or looks for words in a dream dictionary. A Polish study participant reported dreaming of an English word she couldn't figure out – "haphazard" – then looking it up when awake. A Croatian participant dreamed of trying and failing to communicate with a stranger in Italian, German and English before realising they both spoke Polish, and laughing with relief. To understand the link between sleep and language, let's start with just one language: your own. You may think you mastered your native language long ago, but you are actually still constantly updating it. Even adults still learn about one new word every two days in their mother tongue. "Obviously when we're children there's a lot of new word learning, particularly over the first 10 years. But we're doing this all the time, we just don't really notice," says Gareth Gaskell, a psychology professor who leads the sleep language and memory lab at the University of York. I think: If you dream about a language you are learning, this can be a good sign. People tend to dream about events from their lives, especially things that happened the day before. You are more likely to have dreams related to your new language if you practice that language regularly. It may also mean that you are absorbing the language's vocabulary and grammar to the point that you can have basic conversations and think in your new language. Some multilinguals say they have dreams in different languages they know, so as you become more familiar with a language, it can appear more often in your dreams. What do you think?
February 9, 2023
Families search for victims in rubble after earthquake
Families search for loved ones in rubble after earthquake. Rescuers working in freezing temperatures dig through the remains of buildings flattened in Turkey by a magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Desperate and cold from the snow lying thick on the ground, relatives of earthquake victims in the Turkish city of Malatya expressed their frustration on Tuesday at what they said was the lack of help as they searched for missing loved ones. With no specialist equipment or even gloves or winter clothing, they tried to pick through the wreckage of homes crumpled by the force of the earthquake that struck Turkey on Monday, killing thousands of people. “There is not even a single person here. We are under the snow, without a home, without anything,” said Murat Alinak, whose home has collapsed and whose relatives are missing. “What shall I do, where can I go?” Turkish authorities say some 13.5 million people have been affected in an area spanning roughly 450km (280 miles) from Adana in the west to Diyarbakir in the east, and 300km (186 miles) from Malatya in the north to Hatay in the south. Bleak winter weather and damaged roads between some of the worst-hit cities, home to millions of people, were hindering efforts to assess the impact and plan help after the deadliest earthquake in Turkey since 1999. Ahmet Alinak, speaking, like the others, before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the state of emergency, said : two of his nephews were trapped in a collapsed building. He said: There is no one here, we are all doomed,” “This is not what we expected from the state. No matter how big the earthquake was, mobilisation of all people was necessary.” Erdogan declared the three-month state of emergency to cover Turkey’s 10 southern provinces and called it a disaster zone in a move meant to bolster rescue efforts. He said 70 countries had offered help in search and rescue operations and that Turkey planned to open up hotels in the tourism hub of Antalya to temporarily house people. Turkey’s disaster and emergency authority has erected tents in Malatya to shelter those who have lost their homes. I expect the damage caused by the earthquake to be greater than Turkey's ability as a country to respond quickly to rescue those trapped under the rubble. Turkey and Syria need urgent rescue teams from all countries.
February 1, 2023
Hiding from Putin’s Army
Ukraine war: Hiding from Putin's call-up by living off-grid in a freezing forest. When Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation of Russian men in September last year, it took Adam Kalinin (not his real name ) a week to decide that the best thing he could do was move to the forest. The IT specialist was against the war from the start, receiving a fine and spending two weeks in detention for sticking a poster saying "No to war" on the wall of his apartment building. So when Russia said it was calling up 300,000 men to help turn things around in a war it was losing, Kalinin did not want to risk being sent to the front line to kill Ukrainians. But, unlike hundreds of thousands of others, he did not want to leave the country. Three things kept him in Russia: friends, financial constraints and an unease about abandoning what he knows. "Leaving would have been a difficult step out of my comfort zone,"said Kalinin, who is in his thirties, told the BBC. "It isn't exactly comfortable here either but nevertheless, psychologically, it would be really hard to leave." And so he took the unusual step of saying goodbye to his wife and heading for the forest, where he has lived in a tent for nearly four months. He uses an antenna tied to a tree for internet access and solar panels for energy. He has endured temperatures as low as -11C (12F) and exists on food supplies brought to him regularly by his wife. Living off-grid, he says, is the best way he can think of to avoid being called up. If the authorities can't hand him a summons in person, he can't be forced to go to war. In some ways, Kalinin continues his life as before. He still works eight hours a day in the same job, although throughout winter - with its limited daylight - he doesn't have enough solar power to work full days and so makes up his hours on the weekend. Some of his colleagues are now in Kazakhstan, having also left Russia after mobilisation began, but his internet connection via a long-range antenna strapped to a pine tree is reliable enough that communication is not a problem. He is also a lover of the outdoors, spending many of his past holidays camping in southern Russia with his wife. When he made the decision to move permanently to the wilderness, he already had much of the equipment he needed. I think Kalinin made the right decision, that he doesn’t join Putin's Army. The other details it doesn’t a matter. What do you think?
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