Rousseau's Essay On The Origin Of Language

I am convinced that languages constitute a priceless and perpetual heritage of humanity which enables intercultural communication and broadens the freedom of human thought. I am constantly trying to deepen my linguistic knowledge, in order to have access to the boundless world of literature and culture. Rousseau’s “Essay on the Origin of Languages” has engaged my attention, especially his reasoning that languages do not arise from people’s basic needs: they talk because they are sensible and passionate individuals.

After reading “Une vie”, “Madame Bovary”, “La femme a trente ans” and “Eugenie Grandet”, I realised that Maupassant, Flaubert and Balzac are the modellers of women’s soul. It astounded me how these three men have meticulously analysed women’s condition and understood their emotions, expectations, illusions and inquietude. I was absorbed in Moliere’s plays, “Le Tartuffe”, “Dom Juan” and “L’avare” and I admire him for aiming to cure human frailty through comedy.

I find literary translation an exciting challenge, therefore I always avail myself of any opportunity to practise it. In the last two years, I have been awarded the first prize at many interregional, national and international literary translation contests. It

I enjoyed visiting an exhibition of French historical clocks, and a sculpture exhibition, where the interpretations of Emperor Qin’s terracotta soldiers were the works of artists from Europe and from China, who aimed to promote peace and intercultural understanding. I like to spend my leisure time at the Institut Francais’s library, leafing through French magazines, especially “Le magazine litteraire”. In the future, I would like to be a teacher, share my knowledge and determine students to be open to the world. My implication in voluntary teaching French and English to economically disadvantaged children denotes my aspiration to instill into others the love for