Companion
Two Languages: Greek
You translate for your yiayia at the parent conference.
You translate for your yiayia at the parent conference. That's more than language.
For the young Greek American person who speaks Greek at home and English at school — and who navigates the role of family translator while working out what their bilingualism means for who they are
The Name It First Experience
Your yiayia sits across from the teacher. She understands more than she lets on — but when the conversation gets complicated, she turns to you. You translate. You also translate the silences, the assumptions, the things the teacher doesn't know about where your family comes from. You have been doing this everywhere. This is where you write what it's like. What Greek holds that English doesn't. Who you are at that crossing. You leave with The Two Languages: Greek Languages — a named record of your bilingual experience.
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Sample questions
- What does Greek mean to you — the connection to Greece or Cyprus, the history and culture the language carries, and what it holds for your family's identity?
- What does your family do to maintain Greek as a living language — and what has been hardest?
- What would be lost if Greek disappeared from your household — and what are you doing to prevent that?
- What does Greek carry that English cannot — the cultural knowledge, the connection to ancient and modern Greek civilization, the specific expressiveness of the language?
Research basis
Grounded in bilingual identity research / language brokering studies (Morales and Hanson, 2005) / heritage language maintenance (Fishman) / and Greek-English bilingual identity in Greek diaspora children.
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