October 5, 2022

English
Discussion #3
Eric Lee

Selected Scene: 01:44 – 01:50

This 5-minute in Arrival provides how one should accept one’s culture and
language. Language education doesn’t limit learning vocabulary and sentence
structures but is far more ahead, learning how they think. Throughout the scenes, a
significant barrier hinders the communication between heptapods and humans.
This was because they had a different understanding of time. Heptapods’ language
is not written horizontally but in the shape of a circle. Circle where there is no start
and end. This indicates that their culture's time frame, future, past, and present, is
not valid.
From 01:44 to 01:50 finally understood not only their language but also their
thoughts. Therefore, she could break the time limit and “remember her future.”
This can be a great example of learning a language.
We take SAT, HSK, TOEFL, and other various language tests in our life, but
can we say we are fluent in our respective languages without knowing their
culture?
Perfection of language comes from the culture and learning thought
processes.