NAME IT FIRST

Companion

Two Languages: Yoruba

You translate for your baba at the doctor's office.

You translate for your baba. This is where you write what that costs.

This is for:

For the young person who speaks Yoruba at home and English everywhere else — who translates for family in adult spaces they were not meant to occupy alone.

You'll produce:your Your Yoruba Two Languages Page

The Name It First Experience

You sat in the doctor's office and translated what your father could not say in English. You were ten. Maybe younger. You have done it at the bank, the school meeting, the landlord's office. You have been carrying adult conversations and nobody asked if that was too much. This is where you write what both languages cost and give you. The output is not a language lesson. It is a named record of your bilingual life and what you are choosing about it.

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Sample questions

  1. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to translate — and what did it cost you to be in that room?
  2. What do you lose when you move from Yoruba to English — the thing that doesn't cross over?
  3. Who are you in Yoruba — and is that person different from who you are in English?

Research basis

Bialystok (bilingual cognitive development) / Cummins (linguistic interdependence hypothesis) / García (translanguaging theory) / Phinney (ethnic identity and language) / Adesanya (Yoruba language maintenance in diaspora)

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