Good evening Snowglobes,
How are you? I hope you have a great start into the weekend.
I want to talk about languages today. Might sound like a strange topic at first. But there´s a reason behind me writing about that.
First of all: what is you mother tongue? Please tell me in the comments, I´m curious who is reading this, from where you all are. My mother tongue is German. I grew up listening to German, spoke my first words ever in German (and no, I do not know what my first words were. I should ask though, would be an interesting thing to know) and today I´m speaking German in my everyday life.
This is the moment where I´m adding a huge BUT though: What does the term "mother tongue" actually tell others about you? I grew up getting told that someone receives a message better if it´s in their mother tongue, German in my case. That the feelings are greater if someone watches a film in their mother tongue. But is that true?
In my case, it certainly isn´t. Currently I´m at a point in my life where I started questioning `my language´. I know, I know, that term sounds questionably weird. But you know when people question their sexuality? Same with me, except with the language. As I already told you in my last blog post, my dad used to joke around that I´m translingual. What if I am and this really exists? The thing is: I prefer the English language, if I watch a film in English I´m way more emotional than if I watched it in German, I can express myself way better in English (and yes I know, my English isn´t perfect, I´m still working on it), I´m thinking in English, talking to myself in English without even realizing it, I´m even dreaming in English. And ever since I´ve started learning English in third grade I feel like I was born at the wrong side of the channel. And from time to time I´m talking in English or you´ll catch me answering a question in English without noticing it, which annoys so many of my friends.
Am I the only one who feels that kind of thing? It´s like being in the wrong body except it is the wrong country.
What are your experiences with languages? Are you happy with your mother tongue? Do you feel translingual? Feel free to talk about it below in the comments please!!!
Enjoy your weekend
Vanessa xxx
PS: I´ll be staying at my friends flat the next week and as she doesn´t have wifi, I won´t be able to write a blog post. Please forgive me! See you on October 1st.
PPS: HAPPY BEGINNING OF AUTUMN!!!
How are you? I hope you have a great start into the weekend.
I want to talk about languages today. Might sound like a strange topic at first. But there´s a reason behind me writing about that.
First of all: what is you mother tongue? Please tell me in the comments, I´m curious who is reading this, from where you all are. My mother tongue is German. I grew up listening to German, spoke my first words ever in German (and no, I do not know what my first words were. I should ask though, would be an interesting thing to know) and today I´m speaking German in my everyday life.
This is the moment where I´m adding a huge BUT though: What does the term "mother tongue" actually tell others about you? I grew up getting told that someone receives a message better if it´s in their mother tongue, German in my case. That the feelings are greater if someone watches a film in their mother tongue. But is that true?
In my case, it certainly isn´t. Currently I´m at a point in my life where I started questioning `my language´. I know, I know, that term sounds questionably weird. But you know when people question their sexuality? Same with me, except with the language. As I already told you in my last blog post, my dad used to joke around that I´m translingual. What if I am and this really exists? The thing is: I prefer the English language, if I watch a film in English I´m way more emotional than if I watched it in German, I can express myself way better in English (and yes I know, my English isn´t perfect, I´m still working on it), I´m thinking in English, talking to myself in English without even realizing it, I´m even dreaming in English. And ever since I´ve started learning English in third grade I feel like I was born at the wrong side of the channel. And from time to time I´m talking in English or you´ll catch me answering a question in English without noticing it, which annoys so many of my friends.
Am I the only one who feels that kind of thing? It´s like being in the wrong body except it is the wrong country.
What are your experiences with languages? Are you happy with your mother tongue? Do you feel translingual? Feel free to talk about it below in the comments please!!!
Enjoy your weekend
Vanessa xxx
PS: I´ll be staying at my friends flat the next week and as she doesn´t have wifi, I won´t be able to write a blog post. Please forgive me! See you on October 1st.
PPS: HAPPY BEGINNING OF AUTUMN!!!
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