“When the heart speaks, however simple the words, its language is always acceptable to those who have hearts,” wrote Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science (Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 262). Christian Science brings a unique, healing perspective to the study of languages. It lifts our understanding to what is eternally true about God, Mind, and each of us as His expression, thereby giving us practical tools to improve our communication and language skills.
For example, there is one omniscient Mind, or God, which we reflect. This is a powerful idea. Instead of approaching the learning of a language with the notion that we’re a blank slate until we learn something, we can approach it with the idea that we reflect all of Mind’s infinite knowing, and that therefore the capacity to speak new languages is actually native to who we are.
This spiritual perception frees us from limiting beliefs about our capacity to learn any knowledge or skill. Having this attitude, we’re not held back by the notion that we’re too old to learn a language, or that we can’t learn two or more languages at a time, or other human theories about learning. Ignorance and incapacity are learned attitudes, which can be overcome by knowing the truth about each of us as God’s children.
