Hello everyone, my name is Rachel. I'm from Scotland.
English is my language and I love it. But now there are new rules. My mother tongue is not enough. It is not the unconquerable code I believed it to be. Changing the game annuls my expertise.These days when I try to speak or write I’m clumsy, blind, stumbling, clutching and abandoned. Now the words are not my own. I don’t recognize their faces or the sound of their names. Sometimes I open my mouth and nothing comes out. I am mute: silenced by a lack of skill, struck dumb by the strangeness and my ignorance.
I wrote more about language here so please read if you are interested:
http://mixi.jp/view_diary.pl?id=1466186950&owner_id=24721329