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If you are studying a foreign language, I highly recommend keeping a diary. You might make grammar or spelling mistakes, but try not to worry too much about that and just enjoy writing as much as possible. You might find that you’re able to write freely about things that you might feel too embarrassed to write about in your mother tongue. As you do this every day, your sentences cumulatively begin to weave a new self, rather like a textile. To learn a foreign language is to create a new self, to discover a self that is unknown to you.

—Yoko Tawada (‘Spelling Words’, in Exophony, trans. Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, p. 147)


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