Chosen Tongue

Ariel Dorfman: I had to fall in love with my doubleness

Hoangmai Pham: Piecing the self together

Vanessa Fabiano: Bringing my other languages into English

Ova Ceren: I gained freedom and lost some confidence

Sophie Lewis: On translating Angst by Hélène Cixous

Costanza Casati: I still struggle with imposter syndrome

Gonzalo C. Garcia: English gave me the distance

Ledia Xhoga: The pleasure of a many-flavoured language

Cristina A. Bejan: Romanian the soul, English the freedom

Daniel Peña: We're products of everything

Tayyba Kanwal: Identity is what you have, not who you are

Heidi Marjamäki: There is no such thing as good enough

Sneha Subramanian Kanta: The Cartography of Language

Lidija Hilje: Doubting and doing it anyway

Leila Farjami: Persian is the river, English the sea

Vesna Main: Belonging is overrated

Balsam Karam: The known becomes more beautiful when the foreign enters

Thea Lenarduzzi: Stay Open to All the Languages

Ani Gjika: The Language of Freedom

Julie Irigaray: The Hidden Dangers of Feedback

Elizabeth Torres: Every Language is a Codex

Sulaiman Addonia: Writing is Not Just About Language (Bonus Episode)

Ruben Quesada: Bridging Cultures through Translation

Noémi Kiss-Déaki: English is My Allspice

Viviana Fiorentino: We are Collectors of Others

Yael van der Wouden: English Gave Me Control over My Experiences

Pegah Ouji: Glimpsing the Chosen Tongue through a Keyhole

Sumitra Singam: Learning and Translating Trauma as a Language

Aleksandar Hemon: When a Mother Tongue Stops Being Enough

Miriam Calleja: The Imposter Syndrome and the Dangers of Translating Velvet into Plastic

Grace Loh Prasad: I Don't Have Instructions for the Language I've Lost

Leila Aboulela: My Story Can only Be Told in English

Lucy Tan: Give Yourself Permission to Tell Your Stories

Hisham Matar: Literature as a Translation of Humanity

Jesse Lee Kercheval: Spanish brought poetry alive for me again

Jenny Liao: Losing a Mother Tongue

Avra Margariti: The Freedom of a Non-Gendered Language

Alina Stefanescu: The Child in Me is Always Romanian

Ana Maria Caballero: Languages as different bone structures

Alison Mooney - Choosing Tongues to Understand People

Mordecai Martin: Reclaim your chosen tongues!

Victoria Buitron: A Body (and Mind) across Two Hemispheres

Pim Wangtechawat: Owning one's multiculturalism

Andrea Jurjević: English as Freedom

Mathieu Cailler: a Frenchman in America, an American in France

Mileva Anastasiadou: Living in Greek, Writing in English

Francesco Dimitri: Translating the soul into English

Melissa Llanes Brownlee: English as a colonising language

André Aciman: Chiselling the Foreignness Away

Nabeela Ahmed: The Importance of Writing Authentically in a Second Language