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Two Languages: Amharic
You translate for your enat at the school meeting.
You translate for your enat at the school meeting. You have been doing this a long time.
For the young person who speaks Amharic at home and English everywhere else — and who navigates the role of family translator in adult situations that were never meant to fall on a child
The Name It First Experience
At the school meeting, your mother speaks and you translate. You have learned to hold two conversations at once — the one happening in English and the one you are rendering in Amharic, stripping the condescension from the teacher's voice before it reaches her. You have been doing this work that has no name. This is where you name it. What it costs. What it gives. Who you are in each language. You leave with The Two Languages: Amharic Languages — a named record of your bilingual life and what you are deciding about both.
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Sample questions
- What do you have to remove from a conversation before you translate it — and have you ever named that work?
- Who are you in Amharic — and is that the same person you are in English?
- What has being the translator given you — and what has it taken?
Research basis
Grounded in bilingual identity research / language brokering studies (Morales and Hanson, 2005) / heritage language maintenance (Fishman) / and Amharic-English bilingual identity in Ethiopian diaspora children.
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