Interesting short article on current cognitive science research on how the particular language we speak may be affecting the way we think.

Although some of the conclusions seem a bit stretched and the experimental method may, in my opinion, be flawed in a couple of places (e.g. reciting something also involves muscle movement which may be interfering in its own ways with the whole process and keeping a visual pattern in memory is not as mentally active a task as reciting something), the reader is convinced that the particular language we speak does play a very important role in how we think and understand the world we live in.

A socially positive message generated by this research comes from the experimentally proven hypothesis that our thinking is altered as we learn new languages and does not solely depend on our mother tongue!

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/boroditsky09/boroditsky09_index.html