Language Barrier
Siheng Wang
Language Barrier 1: They Do Not Understand Me!
Try going through this slide page by page，the more faces you watch, the more anxiety you get since all the faces are delivering the same message: they do not understand you. You may also start to focus on the typical frowns. After that, you will see some smiling faces, but you can also recognize the “do not understand” message behind the smiles. Please be patient and watch all the way to the end for the complete experience.
Language Barrier 2: We Used to be Faster!
This is an empathic image I created to describe the burden that the language barrier is bringing to ESL Asian international students.
The text on the image: “We used to have swift minds, but we became thinking slow, writing slow, and reacting slow when we stepped into an unfamiliar linguistic environment. Language barriers are heavy burdens. We perform like that we are intellectually impaired.”
English as a second language