In "Arrival," how does Louise communicate with the alien without visual aids?
Best Answer
Right from the beginning, they spoke English with the heptapods. Remember how they taught them the words Louise and Human?
They used the heptapod language to make sure they were learning it correctly, and because they could make some more complex sentences with a higher probability of understanding from the other party. However, the heptapods were also learning English (or, as is my opinion, they knew it all along) and could understand them to some degree.
Pictures about "In "Arrival," how does Louise communicate with the alien without visual aids?"
What did Louise tell Shang in arrival?
Louise tells Shang that his wife spoke to her in a dream and told her that \u201cwar doesn't make winners, only widows.\u201d Ian tells her that she can't stop what's happening. She responds by telling him that she just did.What did Louise tell Ian in arrival?
Louise returns to the military camp and explains to Ian that the aliens meant \u201ctool\u201d, instead of \u201cweapon\u201d. Language affects how a person thinks. Therefore, whoever masters the aliens' language will be able to perceive time the way they do.What did the aliens say in arrival?
When Banks is able to establish sufficient shared vocabulary to ask why the aliens have come, they answer with a statement which could be translated as "offer weapon".Is Heptapod a real language?
Heptapod is a Language \u2013 So Do You Translate it or Interpret it? To use the Heptapod language, particularly the written form known as Heptapod B, is to know the consequential (and seemingly inevitable) end result of your thought before you write or say anything.Arrival Louise outsmarts
More answers regarding in "Arrival," how does Louise communicate with the alien without visual aids?
Answer 2
Louise and Ian specifically discuss the theory that submerging yourself in a language is the fast way to learn it.
Louise already had a rudimentary understanding of their language, but she still relied on the application to parse the symbols for her.
When she visits Costello, she doesn't have her translator and thus is fully submerged in the language. This is the first time where she does not actively rely on her translator - before this, she has always been shown to use the translator. After this visit, everything clicks for her, because she had left behind the crutch (the translator) that kept her from truly connecting with the language.
The important part here is that at the time of Louise's surprise visit, Costello was also being submerged in the English language, after having been initially exposed to English at a slower pace (at the same time as when Louise was learning their language during all of their previous visits). Every word the humans and heptapods discussed can obviously be learned by both sides (since they cannot learn it without the other party teaching them).
So it makes sense that Louise and Costello's experiences are (coincidentally) mirrored, as they are both being submerged in the other's language.
Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Images: SHVETS production, Ketut Subiyanto, SHVETS production, Armin Rimoldi