Living in another language
So I’ve been thinking about what happened when I started living in another language…focusing on basics and English, here are a few things that came to mind (by no means an exhaustive list!):I’m...
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Food, lizards, monkeys, giant spiders and other goodies!
This is a glimpse of my life in Singapore:Humidity. Bags left lying around too long grew pelts and damp was as dry as my clothes ever got. Scrapes took ages to heal.My nose tickled permanently.I shared...
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Why I loved my Mandarin class
The teacherI remember one lesson where she explained that repeating certain words in Mandarin is a way of being sweet, kind and engaging in a conversation. Later, talking about eating snails, she said...
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Moving to California
A teeny tiny glimpse of my life in Southern California…Earthquakes. I was standing in my living room when the ground started shaking. It was my first earthquake and my knees kept shaking after the...
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What language do you dream in?
Here are a few language related questions I get asked over and over:What language are you most comfortable speaking? That depends on where I live and what language I speak most at any given time. I...
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Adjusting to a new country?
Here are a few signs you’re adjusting to a new country!You find yourself using local body language to hail a cab, represent numbers or get someone’s attention for example. It comes naturally and you...
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Please be patient, I have a multilingual brain
My mug/t-shirt design along with 10 symptoms of a multilingual brain inspired this new language related post:I often switch languages several times in the same sentence. Sometimes it’s on purpose...
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Honking around the world
Here are a few messages that might be conveyed through honking:“Hello, I’m here!” Simply a way of announcing yourself, for example driving into an intersection or a traffic circle. Of course because...
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How to get yourself to speak a foreign language
This post was partly inspired by a Twitter conversation with @TravelAccStore.First, accept the following:You’re going to feel silly – that’s OK.You’re going to make a fool of yourself – nothing wrong...
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New language, new burrow?
This post was inspired by a line in Christ Wolf’s book “Mit anderem Blick”, in which she mentions “die fremde Sprache als Versteck”.When I read that line I thought: new language, new burrow? How would...
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