Do You Know How Smart I Am in My Own Language?
There is a scene from Modern Family that has stayed with me.
Gloria, frustrated by not being able to express herself properly in English, says:
“Do you know how frustrating it is to have to translate everything in my head before I say it? Do you even know how smart I am in Spanish?”
I laughed when I heard it.
And then I thought: God, I know that feeling.
I left Brazil in 2006.
Since then, I have studied, worked, fallen in love, built a career, married and become a mother in languages that weren’t originally mine.
Today, I speak Portuguese, English and Italian fluently.
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