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More fromHeidiSongs20 worksheets or activities for the sight word "THEY", plus instruction sheets.
These worksheets and activities were designed to accompany and supplement HeidiSongs original spelling songs, so we are INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL SONG (audio only) .m4a file in this bundle! Please reference the individual instruction pages for use and hints for maximum effectiveness. Heidi has created, tested and adjusted each activity for her own classroom, and has shared with thousands of teachers worldwide thru her website at www.heidisongs.com. Please note the the video for the song is not included. Sight word song videos may be rented via internet streaming at https://heidisongs.uscreen.io/ or purchased on DVD at www.heidisongs.com.
Activities include:
- Hidden Sight Word: Find the target word and color it a given color. If done correctly, the word appears! Great for visual discrimination.
- Trace the whole word or part of the target word and fill in the missing letters; then write the whole word.
- Write the letters printed in boxes that are sized to fit each letter. This helps kids notice the shape of the word.
- Find and color the target word in boxes. These are activities that force the child to look carefully at words that look similar and find the only the ones that match the target word exactly (visual discrimination.)
- Color the word printed in hollow block letters, and “Rainbow Write” the word, which means to trace the word several times with different colors.
- Read the sight words in sentences and use reading comprehension to fill in the missing word from a word bank.
- Reading comprehension - read the word in a sentence, circle the target word, and show you understand by drawing a picture.
- Write your own sentence using the target sight word and illustrate its meaning.
- Make a Mini-Song book, tracing the target word each time it is found. The book includes the words to the song and the hand movements. (Note: Requires light prep of cutting out the booklet and stapling together, unless your kids can do this themselves.)
- Sight Word Puzzle with target word and three other similar words to for a challenging activity. (Note: Requires prep. This may be mounted on a file folder with velcro or simply laminated for durability.)
- “Velcro Book” Manipulative of the target word, is designed to provide a hands-on way for children to practice reading and building the given sight words song, without ever needing to use a pencil or crayon. (Note: Requires Prep. Velcro and folders not included.)
- A "cloze" activity that uses the words to each song, allowing the child to practice writing the target word several times, within the context of the song.
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What Are Sight Words? - Teaching Expertise
// by Marissa Wright
Sight words are an essential part of the reading process. They are hard words for students to "break down" or "sound out." Sight words do not follow the standard English language spelling rules or the six types of syllables. Sight words usually have irregular spellings or complex spellings that are hard for children to sound out. Decoding sight words is hard or sometimes impossible, so teaching memorization is better.
Sight word recognition is an essential skill that students will learn while in elementary school. They are the building blocks to creating fluent readers and a strong foundation of reading skills.
Sight words are words found in a typical book at the elementary level. Fluent readers will be able to read a complete sight word list for their grade, and sight word fluency builds strong readers.
What are the differences between phonics and sight words?
The difference between sight words and phonics is simple. Phonics is the sound of each letter or syllable that can be broken down into a single sound, and sight words are words that are part of the building blocks of reading, but students will not always be able to sound out the words due to sight words not following standard spelling rules or the six types of syllables.
Phonics instruction gives students a basic understanding of how letter sounds are made and sound out a new word. The rules of phonics are clear when students are learning, but do not always apply to sight words, which is why students memorize them. Phonics comprehension is needed to have a solid foundation and progress students' reading capabilities.
Knowing both phonics skills and sight words will help students' reading progress and help them create a lifetime of reading.
Sight words are also different from high-frequency words.
High-frequency words are the most common words used in texts or a typical book but mix decodable words (words that can be sounded out) and tricky words (words that don't follow the standard English language rules).
Each grade level will have a standard list of sight words and phonics rules that students will learn during the school year.
What are the types of sight words?
There are many types of sight words. Sight words are the most common words found in an elementary level book that don't follow the spelling rules or six types of syllables.
Two common sight words lists are Fry's sight word lists, created by Edward Fry, and the Dolch sight word lists, created by Edward William Dolch.
There is a foundation of sight words for each grade level in elementary school, and most of them are built using either Fry's or Dolch's sight words lists. Each list holds a unique set of examples of sight words, and is created for every level of student.
Written below are lists of sight words common to teach in elementary school.
Edward Fry Sight Word List Level 1
| the | of | and | you | that |
| for | with | his | they | have |
| from | had | words | but | what |
| all | were | your | can | said |
| use | each | their | them | these |
Edward Dolch Sight Word List Kindergarten
| all | black | eat | into | our |
| am | brown | four | must | please |
| are | but | get | like | pretty |
| ate | came | good | new | saw |
| be | did | have | now | say |
How to teach sight words
Many teaching strategies can help students learn sight words quickly and easily.
The goal to learn sight words is to help students memorize every word.
Here is an essential guide to sight words teaching techniques. Listed below are the easiest ways to introduce students to sight words and help them become efficient readers.
Teaching sight words is a large part of the method of teaching reading that helps students become efficient readers.
1. Sight words lists
Teachers can assign a sight word list to students as a tool to take home and study. It is easy to print out a leveled list to send home with students to practice at home.
Depending on the level of students (e.g. advanced students), you can assign students new lists and levels if they have already mastered the sight word list for their grade or level.
2. Sight words games
All students love to play games. That includes sight words games and sight word activities. Students can practice sight words in a fun, interactive way.
There are so many games you can play with your students, pick a game that works well for your specific class.
Games are also perfect for non-readers or reluctant readers! They are an effective strategy to expose students to sight words while having fun.
Many sight word games can be interactive, such as sensory bags to spell words, find words in the morning message or announcement, and build words with bricks and legos. These are examples of hands-on interactive games that are fun for both the student and teacher.
3. Sight word games online
There are many educational online games that help students learn their sight word lists. The best online games are usually free to educators and students. Students love playing games online, they might even be encouraged to play them at home.
Roomrecess.com has a great game called "Sight Word Smash" where students 'smash' the word they are looking for by clicking it. They win the game by showing they know and can find all of their sight words.
It is easy to find other online games, such as sight word bingo, sight word memory, and many other fun games.
4. Sight words flashcards
Students can make flashcards or you can print them out for the whole class. It's an easy way to practice memorization. Just flip through the cards to test students on their sight word skills.
Don't forget to correct mistakes while students are playing games, doing activities, or reviewing flashcards. Giving students opportunities for repetition will allow them to memorize the sight words more easily.
Sight words takeaway
Memorization is the main key to increasing reading fluency and helping students remember sight word lists.
Helping students memorize their words will assist students in their long-term reading goals. You will see student fluency in reading increase if students can memorize their sight words.
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They are less than four percent of all those born on Earth. Often they are unaware that they are different. If one day they tell what their world looks like, they risk being branded crazy or dreamers. They are synesthetes. Synesthesia exists, scientists have proven.
Synesthetes - various. Some see words and numbers in color, others are able to distinguish the color aura of a person's mood. Still others know the taste of each color. And some see time as a ring or an endless curve. The world of synesthetes is more complicated than the world of an ordinary person, but the peculiarities of their perception are not a mental disorder. According to one of the research hypotheses, almost all babies are synesthetes, but with age we lose this phenomenal property.
An antenna in the head of the Nile
In 1984, a boy was born in the family of an Irish woman and a Catalan, who was named Nile.
He was born with color blindness and until the age of 20 could only see shades of gray. In principle, through the eyes of he still sees only gray. But in 2004, a device called Eyeborg was implanted in his skull, a special flexible sensor with a simple camera that reads colors and sends a sound signal to Neal. And he became hear color.
Neil Harbison could hear color with an Eyeborg device
At first, Neil could not get used to the constant cacophony in his head. However, over time, he learned to distinguish colors from the notes assigned to them. And later he developed the reverse ability: the sounds of a certain tonality began to evoke in him the sensations of the corresponding colors.
This is how Neil Harbisson developed synesthesia — a perceptual phenomenon in which different signals and feelings mix, complement each other, and merge into a single sensation as a result of peculiarities in the functioning of the brain. And Harbisson became the world's first officially recognized cyborg, but that's a completely different story.
Synesthesia is a little-studied but proven perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation in one sense system leads to an automatic response in another.
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This is how Neil Harbisson “sees” in color the aria of the Queen of the Night from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.
Color and sound for the Nile are now interconnected and inseparable from each other. Harbisson uses his ability to “see” sounds in color in his creative work: for example, he paints pictures in which he depicts in color how musical works and human voices sound to him.
Harbisson developed synesthesia through the use of technology. This is a unique case: in the vast majority of synesthetes (or synesthetics, both are acceptable) this phenomenal way of feeling is inborn .
Synesthesia cannot be artificially developed in oneself, but people can experience similar sensations with certain types of epilepsy and head trauma, meditation and sensory deprivation, and also with the use of psychotropic substances.
Anton Sidorov-Dorso, one of the authors of the research program "Anthropology of Synesthesia", the head of the project on the study of synesthesia in childhood, the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, co-founder and board member of the International Society of Synesthetes, artists and scientists, believes that it is quite enough to distinguish synesthesia from a rich imagination simply.
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This is how Neil Harbisson "sees" Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech in color.
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This is how Neil Harbisson “sees” Adolf Hitler’s speech in color
He explains that what distinguishes synesthesia from simple associations is the involuntary connections (feelings “connect” involuntarily, subconsciously) and the constancy of sensations that do not change over time. Most often, these groups of senses include "material" sensations: tactile, visual, auditory, gustatory, olfactory.
“In addition, the synesthete himself cannot explain his reactions: they are unmotivated and rarely have an obvious meaning,” says Dorso.
In synesthesia, feelings from two or more perceptual systems can "mix".
For example, Anastasia G. from Moscow, when she drinks not very good, cheap coffee, in addition to taste, feels its color and shape.
You can find out how Anastasia sees pain, what tea looks like for her, and what color sex is, by listening to the cycle “Synesthesia. Amazing stories of people with the phenomenon of perception” of the podcast “Stories.doc”.
According to various studies, one to four percent of the world's population has congenital synesthesia. From 75 to 300 million people! In fact, there will always be at least one synesthete within a radius of two kilometers around you. Why, with so many of them, we rarely encounter them in life? Everything is simple. Congenital synesthetes perceive the world in this way all their lives and consider the "mixing" of feelings to be the norm.
Synesthetes most often learn by accident that other people's feelings are different. Usually - at an already mature age, sometimes - they do not recognize at all. And those who find out sometimes hide their “otherness”, embarrassed by it or fearing misunderstanding on the part of others.
Anastasia G. from Moscow feels the taste of bad cheap coffee like this.
“Synesthetes are absolutely mentally normal people,” says Damulin. “And one of the criteria for identifying synesthesia is the absence of mental pathology.” Synesthesia has been studied in the world for more than a hundred years, but there was a period when science “forgot” about this phenomenon. However, modern technologies, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, have made it possible to study synesthesia at a physiological level, which has generated a new wave of interest from researchers.
Nevertheless, the general public about the phenomenon of synesthesia is poorly informed, and synesthetes who declare themselves to the world are often inclined to consider charlatans or crazy people.
Meanwhile, from any other point of view, synesthetes are completely ordinary people. Passing by one of them, you will not even suspect that a second ago you missed one of the most interesting phenomena of neuropsychology.
Multi-colored letters
There are more than 60 types of synesthesia, often one person can have several manifestations of this special sensitivity at once. The most common form is grapheme-color , in which synesthetes perceive letters, numbers and their combinations (words and numbers) in color. In some varieties, graphemes can also be complemented by a sense of volume and texture. For example, for Elena A. from St. Petersburg, the letter "I" looks like a green ficus. And Angelina K. from Moscow does not like the name Ilya because it is black and slimy.
For the synesthete of Elena A., the letter “I” is similar in color and touch to a ficus
The name “Ilya” is very disliked by the synesthete Angelina K. She feels this name black and slimy.
Nevertheless, the phenomenon has been known to scientists and researchers for several centuries. In the middle of the 19th century, synesthesia attracted the attention of representatives of a new, then emerging science - psychology. Many scientists from different countries wrote about this phenomenon. Being a synesthete in certain circles of the European world and bohemia has become fashionable, research has aroused interest, admiration and even slight envy among people from the art world. In 1871, the French poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote the poem "The Vowels" in which he so closely conveyed the sensations of grapheme-color synesthesia that, centuries later, there is still a myth that he himself was a synesthete.
Poem by Artyur Rimbo “Vowels”
A - Cherno, Bel - E , - Green, O - blue,
and - Krasn ... I want to open a birth vowels.
A - TR A Urny corset under Article A She Flies are A ,
rushing around A A D A Lee Il in Tina,
MIR MIR 22 a to a ; E - peace of fog over the desert
And - purple, a clot of blood, a smile of beautiful lips
Y - marvelous cr y gi greenish seas,
L y g, mottled with beasts, peace of wrinkles crumpled
Alchemy on the foreheads of the back rushing people.
O - ZV O on Medn O g O GULK O E O O NHNNYA,
K O O , Angel m pr o nzenn o e m o lament,
o mega, a beam of Her lilac o whose.
In fact, from his late correspondence it became clear that Rimbaud was not a synesthete, but he remained impressed by communicating with acquaintances who were carriers of synesthesia.
Associations that form synesthetic connections are formed individually for each person. Therefore, people with the same form of synesthesia may perceive and feel the same things in different ways. So, for example, it was in the family of the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.
“It so happened that m we discovered that our son D m itrium — then he was m a little scarlet m , eleven or twelve years old — also sees letters in color.
Then and you asked him to list his colors, and it turned out that in one case, the letter he sees as purple or possibly mauve is pink for and for Jenya and blue for and for her wife. This is the letter M . So co m bination of pink and blue gave the color of lilac. It was as if the genes were painted in watercolor,” Nabokov wrote in his memoirs.
Nabokov was very close to the truth: synesthesia can indeed be inherited. Scientists have not found the genes that are responsible for the development of this phenomenon, but observations show that synesthetes often give birth to children with synesthesia, most likely with the same species as their parents.
Multi-colored sounds
The second most common type of synesthesia is color-sound or chromosthesia . With this form, almost every sound that the synesthete hears is colored in his mind in a certain color.
It was this look that Neil Harbisson naturally developed after wearing the Eyeborg for a long time.
Signs of chromosthesia can be seen in the works of many famous artists. Unfortunately, scientific methods to unambiguously determine the presence of synesthesia have appeared only recently. Therefore, whether the masters of the past had synesthesia can only be judged by indirect signs: correspondence, reviews of contemporaries, common elements in their works. Among contemporary artists, for example, the American David Hockney and the British Jane Mackay are definitely synesthetes.
Painting by American synesthete artist David Hockney Pacific Coast Highway And Santa Monica
Painting by British synesthete artist Jane Mackay "Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major"
Painting by American synesthete artist David Hockney Pacific Coast Highway And Santa Monica
In the past, many famous painters, deliberately or rather out of aesthetic intuition, sought to imitate their synesthetes and convey their creative vision by means reminiscent of color-sound synesthesia.
For example, in his painting “The Scream”, the Norwegian Edvard Munch depicted how, in his opinion, the synesthete perceives a human cry in color. And the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, who was well aware of phenomenon of "color hearing" , shifted "to color" the composition of Schoenberg, and as a result his painting "Impression III (Concert)" was born.
Anton Sidorov-Dorso believes that Kandinsky drew most of his method from his own creative interpretation of the meaning of color, abstract forms and connections, including sound and color. Kandinsky called synesthetes "strongly sensitive people" and likened them to "beaten by good violins, sounding from every touch with a bow in all their parts and veins." At the same time, he himself directly and unconditionally did not rank himself among the synesthetes. In a natural synesthete, reactions (mixing colors and sounds) are unmotivated, they occur arbitrarily, without intent or effort, explains Dorso. At the same time, imitators of synesthetes will "invent" combinations of sound and color, giving them some hidden meaning.
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When Edvard Munch painted his famous painting "The Scream", he tried to depict a real human scream in the way synesthetes feel it (according to Munch himself)
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Wassily Kandinsky was well aware of the phenomenon of "color hearing". Based on his knowledge and ideas about synesthesia, he shifted Arnold Schoenberg’s composition “to color”, and as a result, the painting “Impression III (Concert)” was born
For chromostets, every note, every voice, every sound has its own color. Would you like to know how a person with chromosthesia might see you? Create your synesthetic color-sound portrait in augmented reality format using the RIA Lab app, which can be downloaded from the App Store for iOS or Google Play for Android.
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See the world through the eyes of a synesthete with "color hearing" with app
A proven synesthete was the composer Rimsky-Korsakov, who, on the contrary, “heard colors”, turning music in his head into vivid pictures.
This is how he described his synesthesia: “All keys, scales and chords, at least for me personally, are found exclusively in nature itself, in the color of clouds or in the amazingly beautiful shimmer of color pillars and the play of light rays of the northern lights. It has… everything you want.”
A world in which every color, every object "sounds" in its own way, is it a melody or a cacophony?
Find out for yourself! We offer you to look at the world through the eyes of a synesthete with “color sound” through the RIA Lab application in the App Store for iOS or Google Play for Android.
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Hear how the world sounds in the perception of the chromostet
A Ngelina K. not only "hears" colors - she has five basic senses mixed. You can learn more about how Angelina feels the world by listening to the cycle “Synesthesia. Amazing stories of people with the phenomenon of perception” of the podcast “Stories.
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How do you imagine a week? Most will answer that in the form of a school diary or a calendar on the phone. But not everyone is like that.
Not only sensory sensations from objectively existing stimuli — sound, color, smell, taste — can be mixed, but also from subjectively perceived ones: letters and numbers, emotions, names, characters, time.
Synsthesia can be associated with abstract concepts - more with the products of human thinking than with natural phenomena. For example, there are synesthetes who perceive time exclusively in space. The year for them may look like a ring, the future lies at the top right, and the day looks like a curved ribbon or broken into columns by the clock. This is one of the varieties of synesthesia of the localization of sequences or "number forms". These types of synesthesia are much less common.
So Natalya L., a synesthete of numerical forms, conditionally sees the line of the year, in fact it is three-dimensional in the mind of the synesthete and age, appearance, character.
This type is called auric , since most often such synesthetes perceive the personality of another person in the form of a colored halo similar to an aura. This is how the synesthete Elena A “sees” some celebrities. By the way, this is her letter “I” - a green ficus. And she feels time in the form of a spiral staircase. So she has at least three different kinds of synesthesia.
When Mikhail Boyarsky was younger, his "aura" in Elena A.'s perception was dominated by blue color
This is how the "auric" type of synesthete sees Mikhail Boyarsky today Elena A. from St. Petersburg
Daniel Radcliffe's "Aura" in synesthetic perception Helena A. predominantly violet shades
In the "aura" of Vladimir Putin, as the synesthete Elena A. "sees" it, blue color prevails
When Mikhail Boyarsky was younger, blue color prevailed in his "aura" in the perception of Elena A.
"Auras" of various public people are reconstructed in accordance with the descriptions of Elena A.
's synesthete. The emotions that a person experiences also change the color and shape of his halo. Anton Sidorov-Dorso suggests that the aura perceived by the synesthete is the embodiment of the types of people as they are perceived by the synesthete itself. Therefore, as you get to know a person, change your impressions about him, develop relationships, the synesthetic aura changes and becomes more detailed.
Elena believes that the perception of the synesthetic aura is based on intuition. Dorso agrees with this and believes that if some feature of the human type is not in the intuitive experience of the synesthete, then it will not appear in the color of the “aura”.
Look, if you talked to Elena, she would see you like this.
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Emotional color palette compiled by synesthete Elena A.
How Elena uses her ability in everyday life and how synesthesia affects her communication with people, you will learn by listening to the cycle “Synesthesia.
Amazing stories of people with the phenomenon of perception” of the podcast “Stories.doc”.
In fact, there is an opinion among researchers that we are all “residual” synesthetes. After all, how else would we understand such expressions as “cold color”, “bright personality”, “hot guy”, “red calendar day”? In addition, in order to make it easier to navigate among the many seemingly monotonous things - medicines, goods, documents, chemical elements, sports teams, subway lines - we, just like synesthetes, intuitively attach to them more understandable and simple attributes - colors.
Scientists have established that we are all born with a synesthetic worldview and in infancy we perceive the world with a single feeling. However, as we grow older, the mutual activation of brain areas responsible for different sensations stops. And only a few percent of people are lucky enough to keep this beautiful childish view of our world.
In October 2019, Moscow will host the II International Conference of the International Association of Synesthetes, scientists and artists.
As part of the conference on the basis of the Moscow State Pedagogical University and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, hundreds of synesthetes and researchers will gather at the symposium "Synesthesia: sensory aspects of cognitive activity in science and art." Perhaps the results of this meeting will be the biggest breakthrough in the study of the phenomenon of synesthesia.
In the meantime, take the test to see if you're a synesthete. Perhaps you are one of those four percent.
Synesthesia is a little-studied but proven perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation in one sense system leads to an automatic response in another.
Project "Synesthetes" was prepared with the expert and informational support of the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, the Russian Synesthetic Society and the International Association of Synesthetes, artists and scientists.
Listen to three episodes about the phenomenon of synesthesia in the cycle “Synesthesia. ( Philosophy Day essay 2019 ) I don't know much about philosophy. As you know, there are many definitions: Pythagoras understood it as the search for truth, the sophists - the teaching of wisdom, Plato - the knowledge of such truths as "good" or "good", Aristotle - the origin of the principles and causes of being, Epicurus - the liberation of a person from fears of the future or death ; in the Middle Ages, philosophy was understood as the knowledge of God as the highest wisdom; The positivists believed that philosophy was only a forerunner of the sciences, while the Marxists believed that it was a way of describing the most general laws of the development of society, nature, and knowledge. Academic language presupposes that the author possesses a scientific style of presentation of thought, although excessive academicism is often sharply criticized. For example, Bertrand Russell argued that a text that cannot be understood by reading it twice is unscientific - here is his more global conclusion: “One of the unpleasant features of our time is that those who are confident are stupid, and those who has at least some imagination and understanding, full of doubts and indecision. Indeed, when reading modern scientific articles, one can often see only an academic style, behind which there are no discoveries or a unique view of a scientist, but in fact there is no problematization that does not lead to true questioning - essential questioning. That is, the main thing in science, and in philosophy in the first place, is a person, his view of things, since it depends on him how it will be, on what grounds integrity and uqicality will be formed, how, on what principles it will be formed, t .e. what axioms will be based on, their consistent unity. Perhaps everyone has their own philosophy, formed under the influence of different circumstances, but only a few managed to create concepts that amazed / enchanted the world - gave the world a mirror of this world, which is now discussed from century to century. Strange, of course: what could be easier than taking a cube - in our case, an axiom - and on this foundation to build a structure - a castle of any type, up to the universe - have only imagination. For example, my personality at this time is better described in the context of the type of professional activity - as “linguist, teacher”, which is recorded in the diploma of my qualifications, on the one hand, and on the other hand, most of my life is occupied by work. But at what point does a person become a linguist, and in general - and what is the reason for his identifications? So, at the age of 17, having entered the university, I definitely was neither a philologist nor a linguist. Today, at the age of 33, it seems to me that this happened to me at birth: my first word was "stork", and later I learned a lot of words in the language that I understand as my mother tongue. – Can a person think of himself outside of language and not by linguistic (semiotic) means? - Of course, at first they were incomprehensible, and then you get used to them ... I remember how at the age of 5 I asked my mother about everything in the world, “What is it?”, Without understanding the deep meaning of words - their meanings, meanings - all their multifaceted not only palettes, but also functionality. The school curriculum, especially literature, expanded the vocabulary, deepened the understanding of meanings by mastering a large number of words with the same root. Then poetry came into play: playing with forms, the members of our “poetry living room” finally began to dig deeper than the rest. It turned out that we are humanitarians. A decisive blow to my view of the world was dealt by teachers of foreign languages - especially a German teacher, and later an English teacher. It turned out that the words related to the lexical field "family" in German, Russian and English are surprisingly similar (here Prof. A.V. Kuznetsov echoes). From the word "mother" I moved to "Mutter", "mother". Most of the children I knew then watched TV, where there were many Spanish-language series dubbed with translation, in which Spanish words could be distinguished. So my lexical field was replenished with the word "madre". I probably heard some other languages - I didn’t become a polyglot - but curiosity got the better of me: when the Turkish language appeared in the access zone, and now - the piggy bank was replenished with a less similar (except for writing) word "anne". Similar rows began to line up, although not quite evenly. First, family members gathered together, basic phrases for greeting and farewell, agreement or disagreement. They were followed by various parts of speech, holding hands with the help of grammar. (In some languages, no one held hands, and the team itself was small J) The sound was a particular pleasure - it was an acting game: speaking the language, one could imagine oneself as some kind of separate person (by the way, the term " Secondary Linguistic Personality has been quite well researched in linguistics): it is simply amazing to experience such a phenomenon firsthand. - From word to word - from one, to another, third, and now - a person comes to a linguistic picture of the world, or to a picture of the world of several languages at once, which seem especially bright and original against the background of each other. (By the way, the concept of a “linguistic picture of the world” goes back to the ideas of Friedrich Wilhelm von Humboldt and the neo-Humboldtians, as well as to the ideas of American ethnolinguists, for example, to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity, according to which language determines thinking. I could have put an end to the previous sentence and not developed the idea, however, I happened to notice how other words are hidden in the word, and the force that dealt me a devastating blow is called "the history of the German language." She brought me a genuine understanding of words, and not only German ones. For example, the word " Arbeit " ( Rus. - work) is etymologically related to the German " arm " ( Rus. . - Poor) according to Paul Galle's German Dictionary. In the Middle Ages, it meant " labor ", " flour ", " pain " as opposed to the current value - " activity that benefits ". This word has developed in a similar way in many languages, for example, in Russian it comes from the word " slave ", and in Romanian " muncă " it has the original meaning, similar to the Russian " flour ". The German word " Haus " ( Rus. - house) is a common German word related to the German " Haut "( rus . Let me give you a few more examples. German “ h ü BSCH ” ( RUS . - Beautiful) at the time of Martin Luther, the value “ h ö Vesch ” ( RUS . - such as it is accepted under yard), and is also related to the modern " h ö flich " ( rus - polite). One of the most impressive phenomena in the history of the German language is the movement of consonants (first and second). Textbooks do not provide information about its causes - there is only a fact: for some reason the consonants moved, and this happened, apparently, in all languages - these patterns are fixed. The essence of the movement is that the organs of speech, when pronouncing the sound, somewhat changed their position, which affected the quality of the sound, for example, the sound [b] began to sound like [p]. Thus, while studying German and its history, I felt the kinship of German with Russian, my kinship with the ancient Goths - speakers of the Latin language, the Germanic tribes of different periods, and even the ancient Indians, since Sanskrit belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family (“member” which is also Russian). Today there is a popular tendency to be a man of the world – to travel a lot, to live with the problems of the day. Knowledge of European languages \u200b\u200bis welcomed (in the first place), the popularity of Arabic and Chinese is growing. People are trying to make contact with each other, they look approximately the same way, focusing on the standards of the era of globalization and digitalization. The Internet brings us closer - Google Translate breaks down barriers. But, in my opinion, nothing brings people closer, unites people than the realization of common roots. You can look at these roots from a short distance, or more broadly - as you like: is there a single common root (and language) for the entire population of the earth? This question has long occupied the minds of scientists, but the problem is still unresolved - ideas, like those of prof. M.A. Arkadiev, a lot. Perhaps a world with a common identity, or approaches to it, common roots, a common language sometime in the past is just a fairy tale that is interesting to imagine.
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All definitions cannot be counted, it is believed that they depend on the subject of philosophical questioning, which is defined by this or that philosophical system and, it seems, every time in its own way. One thing is certain: all systems were developed by individuals, philosophy is made by people: it is how they see the world. And how many people - so many opinions. For example, I am a linguist. 
Nobel laureate in physics Richard Feynman also believed that if a person cannot explain something in simple words (in his case, why particles with half-integer spin obey Fermi-Dirac statistics), then he himself does not understand it. The same “philosophy” is followed by Apple now: “An engineer must explain complex technology in simple terms to show that he understands this technology” (John Gruber). 
But for some reason, this turns out to be beyond the control of mortals, but only, presumably, extraordinary ... 
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- leather). It's amazing how accurately history describes concepts or how people relate to them. 
And here, with a careful study of the movements of German consonants, during a comparative analysis with the vocabulary of other (related to German) languages, a feeling of true kinship with the world comes. Let me give you an example: during the first movement of German consonants, the sound [k], depending on the position of the stress in the word, could be transformed into [x] or [g]. This fact is easy to trace in a comparative analysis of related words in Russian, Gothic, Old High German and modern literary German. If the stress falls before [k], as in Russian " father-in-law ", there is a movement to the sound [X], as in the Gothic" swAihra ". If the stress falls after [k], as in Russian “ mother-in-law ”, then there is a movement to the sound [g], as in Old High German “ swigAr ” - in modern German the word looks like “ Schwiegermutter ”. 
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