Could your language affect your ability to save money?

Today the LINGUA FRANCA Sprachschule blog is bringing you another short video from the TED series. TED (Technology, Education, Design) is an international and interdisciplinary conference series based around the concept “ideas worth spreading”.

In this video behavioural economist Keith Chen introduces a fascinating idea from his research: that languages without a concept for the future — „It rains tomorrow,“ instead of „It will rain tomorrow“ — correlate strongly with high savings rates.

This video is suitable for a variety of levels. Higher-level English learners should just watch it as it is. Intermediate students – you can turn on the English subtitles on the menu at the  bottom-right of the video. Lower-level learners can go to the video on the TED website (here) and turn on the German (or the language of your choice) subtitles, as well as look at a full transcript of the talk. Enjoy!

You can find an interesting article that expands on ideas from this talk at this link: How Language Can Affect The Way We Think