![]() ![]() I wrote my first poem when I was 7 in second grade. I went to school, everyone spoke this language I did not, I suddenly had this other name that I was not called at home that I was called in public. For me, because of that, the language of me being the outsider - that was my introduction to it. I think maybe they thought I'd learn English when I went to school, which is what happened. I actually think they just didn't think about. So they spoke English in life, but at home they spoke Korean. My dad was a professor, and my mom was an academic. I feel like my mother tongue is Korean and that English is the language of school. I didn't learn English until I went to school. And to talk about, very briefly, my relationship to language: English is not my first language Korean is my first language. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Forgotten Country Author Catherine Chung ![]()
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