Language and me

Language is a tool used by people to communicate their feelings to the outside world and also to understand what others. It can be either a verbal or non-verbal (Sign) language. The importance is that you are able to express yourself. Language can sometime be a barrier between you and people, but you have to be able to communicate or learn the way to make yourself understand. Sometimes I asked myself, why there is no such thing in the world as a universal language to help people that travel around the world to communicate on?
Coming to New York City was like a dream comes true for me and my siblings. However we did not realize that there will be a slide problem with it, “Language”. I am from a French speaking country, therefore all my life I have been exposed to the French language, and not that it is an easy language compared English , but it was natural for me to express myself on it. In New York City, I had to learn English at baby steps, because I did not know any. I got lost a couple of time in the subways stations, because I was unable to read the instructions written in English and also because I did not know how to ask people for direction. So I realized that no matter what I do in New York City in order for me to survive I had to learn English.
The English language helped me to understand most of the books written by Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” or “Hamlet” or “Othello”. It is not like I did not get them the first time I read it in French but because some words in English do not have the same meaning once there are translated in a different language. The power of language over a human being is so powerful that if you do not perceive what the author or the over person id talking about it will be difficult for you to connect with the book or the ideas that you are facing.
Language is such a fascinating topic that I always asks myself, how do people come up with the creation of language, or how do languages die? Another interesting aspect of language is that children seemed to distinguish the difference between languages even though they have not been thought by their parents. Sometime people forget about their natives languages, by moving to a new environment and not being among their community. For example, the new generation of Spanish people not being able to speak Spanish. How do people forget about their language?