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Two Languages: Italian
You translate for your nonna at the pharmacy.
You translate for your nonna at the pharmacy. You do this everywhere. It matters.
For the young Italian American person who speaks Italian at home and English in the world — navigating the identity questions that live between two languages and two versions of themselves
The Name It First Experience
Your nonna tells the pharmacist what she needs. You translate. You have been doing this at the pharmacy, the doctor's office, the post office — everywhere that the English-speaking world intersects with your family. You have been the bridge for longer than you can remember. This is where you write what it's like to live at that crossing. What Italian holds. What English asks. Who you are in each. You leave with The Two Languages: Italian Languages — a named record of your bilingual life.
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Sample questions
- What would be lost if Italian disappeared from your household — and what are you doing to prevent that?
- What does your family do to maintain Italian as a living language — and what has been hardest?
- What does Italian carry that English cannot — the specific regional dialect, the cultural expressiveness, the way the language sounds in your family?
- What does Italian mean to you — the connection to the specific region your family comes from, the food and culture it carries, and what the language holds?
Research basis
Grounded in bilingual identity research / language brokering studies (Morales and Hanson, 2005) / heritage language maintenance (Fishman) / and Italian-English bilingual identity in Italian American children.
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