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Hello everyone 👋🏽. Hope y’all are doing well.
This new song seems to be blowing up. The irony being I could have gone to Kerala (the example of the first martial arts shown & in Tamil Nadu) & seen some of these things.
I ended up seeing some of my family back in the motherland though. My dad’s older brother (who would not look out of place in that family photo/grouping in the video). It’s hard to state the feeling you get when you’re around people who look like you & family to boot. My uncle looks a fair bit like my dad. Then again it’s also hard to describe the doubt that comes with not being comfortable or consistent with one’s own mother tongue. It can be very alienating & isolating to be othered, so that wasn’t easy. What can I do but practice & get more fluent. I certainly wanted to speak when I was in the motherland.
Even more ironic is that I went to Sunday school to study & now I find it easier to read & speak my mother tongue than to speak from memory, because I’ve gotten so rusty. Visual memory doesn’t fade as much for me?
Prompt: how are you you with language?
Feel free to talk about whatever else you’d like! 🙏🏽