Language is embodied in everything around us. As human beings, we are constantly imparting meaning onto everything and everyone. We are walking representations of language. The clothes we wear; the music we listen to; the books we read; the ideologies we adopt are all symptoms of the cause.
Language is the medium in which we think, speak and act and make sense of the world and ourselves. However, this doesn’t by any means make it an easy relationship to maintain. On the contrary, our relationship with Language has the potential to be the most conflicted, love-hate relationships we’ll ever experience.
This personal piece of writing is an exploration of language, monolingualism and my relationship with my mother tongue.
In her Shoes 