Languages and understanding
While trying to make sense of my final project and my life and all those things I constantly try to make sense of, I have discovered how fascinating it is to tell people about an idea, well, it doesn’t sound as exciting when I write it here, but what I mean is that everytime you tell something to a person, you slightly change the story, you think of what is relevant to this person, and what would catch their attention, and slightly modify the way you say things or what you give priority to. What I then find fascinating about this process, is that it actually helps me understand better what it is I have in my head. Well, I already knew that I make sense of things through conversation, it is just that I have had to had many conversations about a single topic than I usually have, and when I am struggling myself to understand what it is I want to do then I actually find the process very rewarding.
And writing, cause it is not just about the conversations, but actually writing an email and trying to explain what the whole thing is about, and here something interesting has happened too, the fact that I am in Denmark, studying in English, and doing a project in Colombia means that I am constantly dealing with 3 languages… so there is a lot of translation going on, and this in itself is a very interesting (though time consuming) process, because somethings sound better in one language than in other, somethings make more sense in one language than the other, or there is an expression that perfectly explains what I want to say…
This is not to say that the fact that I am dealing with 3 languages makes me understand things better, it only means I get confused in 3 different languages!
multi-language disfunctional stress disorders…
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