“Four!” I exclaim. I’m sitting with my mom at the dining room table, August sun shining through the windows. She just asked how many languages I speak now. “英文、法文、廣東話同國語,” (English, …
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speaking in tongues misinterpretation ghosts-back, attempts to reincarnate the broken language of Jaden’s tongue-twist reverberation— murmur the revenant-named co bac mispronounce it twice as fast go back diaspora synth-talk— …
Alas, as a second-language speaker of English, I was fortunate enough to have it engraved in my brain and jammed down my throat at an early age. Having parents who …
As we reach the narrow and empty street of London’s Chinatown, I couldn’t help but smell this tart whiff overwhelm me. “This is it?” I ask my parents. We stand …