The Spoken word.

 Experiment A: Well, this was defiantly an experience. Firstly, I used a friend of mine to complete this assignment. Beforehand, I explained what I was trying to achieve in this experiment, how different people worldwide have multiple ways of communicating with each other, how different languages are used, and how we will try to simulate that encounter. She is currently in a four-year university to become a speech pathologist to be a special education teacher, so langue and communication are extremely important and exciting to my subject. I could only do face gestures, hand motions, and mouth words for the first fifteen minutes. It started simply enough; she talked about basic stuff like her day and minor grievances. After around the 10-minute mark, I could tell she was getting uncomfortable. I can only do so many motions with my hands, and trying to mouth words was not helping either. At some point, she did not know what to talk about because I could not give input on the points she was talking about. At some point, she just started to talk about something personal she was dealing with, which made me struggle to help. Because I am studying to become a psychologist or therapist, calling through stress and hardship is something I love and is easy for me to do, but I found myself at a disadvantage.

Regarding who had the power, I do not think we were in power of the conversations. Without feedback on her one-sided conversation, we both were at a loss. Yes, that is the first and only thing I thought about when I did this first part of the experiment. "How do people who do not speak my primary language feel when I try to alter my English language to help them understand it?" My father's wife was from Iran and did not speak English for the first three to five years when she arrived, and I could empathize with her and her struggle. "This is so difficult when you cannot speak back to me," were her words, and my response after the fifteen minutes was, "It is only going to get more difficult from now."

Experiment B: No, I could not complete the whole fifteen-minute-long experiment without doing hand or head movements. I found myself having to speak louder when speaking or laughing about what we just did in part A. When we finally spoke freely, we talked about how uncomfortable it must be for people who cannot communicate with others. They did feel like something was very missing from the conversations we usually have. For the sign langue or hand movements, I had to do to get her to understand what I was saying was like me being underwater and not having a voice. You will not get what you are saying across without the spoken word. She knows sign langue, but I do not, so she suggested teaching me that for part A, but I just refused to talk about it to her. I do not know if she picked up on all of my body langue during part A, and when I asked, she replied that it just seemed like I was struggling after all her wrong guesses. "A bad game of charades," as she put it. I believe it would be difficult to read body langue if someone was in pain or uncomfortable because all movements mimic the last one.

Part 3: I think it would have been easier to write down my responses to her, and she even suggested it, but I firmly shook my head and pointed at the guidelines. Written langue is an excellent advantage because we can get across what we actually want to say to the person. Straight forward. I believe that written language is helpful in its change on globalization because it only gets our points across that we want to be read. It does not leave anything to be miscommunicated. When we bring in speech or body language, it can mislead or confuse people outside our culture.