Retrieving Russian...
When my daughter had a speech delay, one of the things that I had to do was to use only English around her. I was born and raised in Moscow, Russia. I left Russia when I was 30 not 3 y.o. However, I have to face the reality that my Russian is not that great and I have to work to bring it back where it used to be.
The difficultly I faced when I wanted to call my baby these cute little nicknames in Russian and had to instead switch to English was huge. It was not just that I needed to learn different words, update my vocabulary. It felt as I had to do an emotional switch. We are connected to our native language at our core level. We hear it when we are babies, it is in the body itself.
Today when I was making posts on Nithyananda Russia page on facebook I again realized that my Russian was not good enough. I was later driving around and finally found the words I could not find when I was posting earlier. Now I am "neither ...nor..." My English still needs editing and my Russian needs retrieval...Help Swamiji!
The difficultly I faced when I wanted to call my baby these cute little nicknames in Russian and had to instead switch to English was huge. It was not just that I needed to learn different words, update my vocabulary. It felt as I had to do an emotional switch. We are connected to our native language at our core level. We hear it when we are babies, it is in the body itself.
Today when I was making posts on Nithyananda Russia page on facebook I again realized that my Russian was not good enough. I was later driving around and finally found the words I could not find when I was posting earlier. Now I am "neither ...nor..." My English still needs editing and my Russian needs retrieval...Help Swamiji!
Comments
Post a Comment