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English language and identity Language learning

The curse of speaking Turkish

(Turkce, عربي) As I remember, multilingualism hasn’t provided me many benefits, if anything, it was a problem. Learning Kurdish gave me a fake advantage, it enabled me to skip the meaningless discrimination against Arab and to prove myself as a Kurd. Turkish specifically wasn’t useful, when I learned it, it was an intellectual advantage to […]

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English Language learning

The language bubble as a way to learn language:

(العربية) The Language bubble is to surround yourself with the language that you want to learn. Watching TV, reading the news, chatting, and many other methods that I am going to summarize here. Though a language bubble doesn’t necessarily mean not being exposed to any language. Still, the language targeted for learning means being exposed […]