I Need a Translator in My Native Language

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”― Robert Frost Let me ask you some questions. Are you bilingual? Are you trilingual? If you speak more than two languages, think about a situation where you meet a distant relative whom you haven’t met for more than decades. He’s monolingual and never had any linguistic interactions with foreigners. Since he only spent his entire life speaking in his native language, he never understands what it feels like to communicate in a foreign language with someone from different background. On the other hand, you have a rich history of communicating with those who speak your second language as well as breathing the foreign … Continue ReadingI Need a Translator in My Native Language