Process of unknown becoming known
What is this strange attraction to unknown languages? I can't figure out why I love to hear conversations in languages that I can't understand. It all starts with the musicality of a language. As I hear the natives talk, I feel the ease, passion and love that comes out. The inflections, intonations and expressions entice me into the new world, making me read pages and pages on Wikipedia - history of the language, it's phonetics , morphology , semantics and so on. I don't want to dwell much into this aspect of the language, I move on to cultural, social and historical progress of the people themselves. This comes from the fact that I have majored in one the ancient languages of the world - Sanskrit. Innumerable books have been written on the rich heritage and socio impact that this sanskrit has had over Southeast Asia. From young age I have been taught that sanskrit is superior to all languages. Deep down I still want to believe that. But that does not mean