One of the key elements for a society to survive is to communicate. Different people have different ways to communicate. If you were amongst the lucky human beings, you were brought up and could communicate with others by talking. Others are less fortunate but can still communicate with sign language. I have always envied those who spoke multiple languages. You can see them simply standing there and have the ability to speak to many people that it would be hard for me to speak with.
So I insisted on learning a language, a special language that not everyone understands, a language that is unique and special, yet universal. I was limited with my thoughts when I started.. Do I want to speak English – my second language – and maybe the second most spoken language in the world. Or continue learning French and use it in some of the countries it is limited to. Maybe Spanish, which comes from Latin origins and will help me communicate with other Latin languages – hopefully. Well, decision was very hard, I was born speaking Arabic, learned English for more than 10 years in school, French for 4 years in summer through college time, and Spanish later on while working for couple of months.
I learned and communicated with so many people through many different languages that I spoke, or thought I could speak, but none of them was universal enough to help me connect with special and unique people around the world.
Until one day, I found that language. It was different.. It had different structure, multiple yet limited number of accents, and most importantly, it was universal enough.
The language itself was unique in many dimensions. One of those dimensions is the length of conversations, the second thing was the consistency across its sentences and the third thing is, its variety.
Each conversation in this language had paragraphs, each paragraph had sentences, each sentence had exact number of words. It goes as the follow
1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7
1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7.. 1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7
1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7.. 1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7.. 1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7
1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7
1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7.. 1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7
1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7
Sometime, you will find sections which is only, 1, 2…….7 without the numbers in between, but that’s part of the language.
The easy thing about this language is that, the moment you understand its basics 1, 2, 3… 5, 6, 7, you can pretty much know how to communicate. At least good enough to be able to have a continue a paragraph and hopefully a sentence.
Now, I have been speaking this language for almost 2 years.. When people find out I speak this language, I feel privileged. Some of them wish they actually speak it themselves. It helped me create a huge circle of friends from around the world. I spoke it in the US, Spain, France, Portugal, Germany, Dubai, and I am sure that anywhere I go, I will be able to speak it.
In tributes for a great universal language and great speakers from around the world.. The language of salsa.. Communicating what you feel, desire, want, hate, love, fancy, dream of, and can’t live without,
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Keep dancing my friends..
Dance to express, not to impress..
TMandou
and met two of its key members that were very nice and helpful (Angel and George) Music is in their blood.. Artists and musicians are amazing people!![May 23, 2010_ 013343_7410[4]](http://tmandou.com/diary/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/May232010_013343_74104.jpg "May 23, 2010_ 013343_7410[4]")
