Showing posts with label bilingual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bilingual. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

How do bilingual writers express themselves better?

Those of you who’ve met me or have read my bio details know I’m Greek. You may also know I’m a Greek teacher of English. After twenty years of teaching, even more years of speaking and reading English literature and reference books (thanks to my ongoing postgraduate studies) I have become bilingual.
The most important thing is I think in English. As an author, my inner voice is English, not Greek. Pointing this out does not imply in any way that I disdain my first language; quite the contrary. But my tendency to select English when I write is a fact I cannot ignore.

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