The Challenges and Heartbreaks of Multilingualism – The Rover

ILLUSTRATION: Fanny Lord-Bourcier @car.touche Recently, I was talking with an Asian friend about our fluency in our respective Asian languages. We were both discouraged by the fact that our ability to use them is not as good as we would like. With dark humor, he told me, “I always say that my family and I speak our colonial languages better than our mother tongues…”, followed by a bitter laugh. I replied with an equally bitter laugh, “Yeah, it’s…