{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 301/1920-04-28/p022","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"As for teaching languages, you first need to gain a sense of how to do this. I first became aware of this sense of teaching languages when I had the opportunity of pursuing the result of having children who spoke dialect sit in the same classroom as other children who did not speak the dialect. It is very interesting to observe children who speak a dialect and how they carry themselves. A dialect, every dialect, has a certain characteristic. It arises out of what I would call an inner feeling of the human being just in the same way as the inner organic feeling arises, something that is much less important in today’s intellectualism. Dialect is an inner experience that pushes the entire human being into speech. In modern conversational speech, the so-called educated speech, which has become abstract, there is no longer a proper connection between inner experience and what is expressed in a sound or series of sounds. Certain subtle differences in the relationship between the person and the person’s surroundings are often wonderfully expressed in dialect. That is something you can no longer detect in educated speech. For example, when as a child I heard the word sky-flash ( *Himmlitzer*), I knew immediately that it was something that must be similar to the sound. Try to feel the word *Himmlitzer*. In certain dialects, that is the word for *lightning*. There is something in the sounds or in the series of sounds. Here the language is drawing a picture; it paints in a kind of inner music. The close connection between language and inner experiences of feeling is enormously stronger in dialect than it is in educated language.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"VI. Teaching Eurythmy, Music, Drawing, and Language","site_heading":null,"date":"1920-04-28","location":null,"word_count":280,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/301/1920-04-28/p022","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200428d01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Ich muß sagen, eigentlich ging mir der Sinn des Sprachunterrichts auf, als ich Gelegenheit hatte zu verfolgen, was sich ergibt, wenn dialektsprechende Kinder mit anderen Kindern, die nicht Dialekt sprechen, in der Schule zusammensitzen. Gerade die Beobachtung der dialektsprechenden Kinder und die Führung der dialektsprechenden Kinder ist ja außerordentlich wichtig und auch interessant. Der Dialekt, jeder Dialekt hat nämlich eine gewisse Eigentümlichkeit. Er geht noch aus dem hervor, was ich innerliches Erfühlen des Menschen nennen möchte, genau ebenso, wie es ein innerliches Organ-Erfühlen gibt, das nur unter unserem heutigen Intellektualismus sehr zurückgegangen ist, so ein innerliches Erleben, das doch den ganzen Menschen im Grunde genommen in die Sprache hineindrängt. Aber bei unserer abstrakt gewordenen sogenannten gebildeten Umgangssprache - Schriftsprache nennt man es manchmal -, da ist kein rechter Zusammenhang mehr zwischen dem innerlichen Erleben und zwischen dem, was sich im Laut oder in der Lautfolge äußert. Gewisse feine Unterschiede, die da bestehen in dem Verhältnis des anschauenden Menschen zu seiner Umgebung, die kommen in dem Dialekt wunderschön zum Ausdrucke. Von denen verspürt man in der gebildeten Umgangssprache nichts mehr. Wenn ich zum Beispiel als Knabe gehört habe: Himmlitzer — ich wußte gleich, das ist irgend etwas, was dem Laute ähnlich sein mußte. Himmlitzer — versuchen Sie nun einmal zu fühlen das Wort Himmlitzer. Es ist in gewissen Dialekten der Blitz oder auch das Wetterleuchten; es liegt in dem Laute das durchaus drinnen, in der Lautfolge. Die Sprache zeichnet da. Sie zeichnet auf innerlich musikalische Art. Dieses enge Zusammenhängen des innerlichen Gefühlserlebnisses mit der Sprache ist eigentlich im Dialekte unendlich viel stärker als in unserer gebildeten Umgangssprache.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":279,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/301/1920-04-28/p023"}],"english":["GA 301/1920-04-28/p022"],"method":"length","confidence":"medium","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":279,"en_words":280,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.95,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":7531,"original_word_count":7940,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Ruth Pusch and Gertrude Teutsch","identified_edition":"AP2001","book_title":"The Renewal of Education","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA301/English/AP2001/19200428d01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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