Being fluent in a language, when you aren’t even aware of it:

Not being aware that you can do something doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Reading pictures or interpreting them sometimes seems like a hard task but in reality, our brain is fluent in doing this. Understanding what the picture or symbol is, even if it is not stated in the photo itself is something that we can do without thinking about it. To learn a different language is quite hard so how did our brain learn to be fluent in a doing something that we weren’t even aware of? Speaking English when you know it fluently comes so easy because you know what you’re saying, but when you are learning English for the first time your brain is just getting to know it. For example, when you see a no smoking sign, you don’t think that it is a place that doesn’t sell cigarets, you automatically think that you can’t smoke there. This idea comes from a Ted Talk that Christoph Niemann presented in and his idea is why don’t we know about this ‘language’ that our brain is fluent in? This is the Ted Talk