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| What's the Word
Becoming Fluent in Baby Talk
Parenting didn’t just change the way I talked and behaved, it changed the way I saw the world.
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| What Doesn't Translate
What Lullabies Teach Us About Language
In that way, lullabies are like a language of their own.
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| What Doesn't Translate
How Languages Go Extinct
Cantonese has become a forgotten heirloom of my past.
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| What Doesn't Translate
How Untranslatable Words Have Connected Me to My Mother
“In Cantonese,” my mother says, “love isn’t so frivolous.”
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| Family
| What Doesn't Translate
The Pain of Losing Your First Language
What else did I lose to assimilate?