How do we speak?

I don't know if this post will serve the purposes of the blog but I feel this is something that we have to deal with in our life here at the College and it would be interesting to discuss among us.

From my stay here in Duino so far, I feel that dealing with languages is something that can become rather confusing. In my case, having to deal with four idioms, it gets to the point that I don't really evolve in any of them, I end up getting worse in my mother tongue and sometimes english itself.

With this I mean that here, where we are meant to understand each other as well as we can, we finish not being able to express ourselves completely clearly to someone because of the lack of vocabulary. The fact that here we have different levels of english, some of us are trying to improve our italian and we still have to remember our mother-tongue to make a literary analysis at the end of the year is tough and can lead to less profound conversations because we just don't know how to express ourselves correctly.

It is impossible to not have this issue at the College, for such thing to happen, only English Native Speakers and other students with a good level of English would be selected to come here. It ends up being hard to evolve with the ENS as well because their level of English in the dialogues with other students ends up decreasing and so we get little or no benefits of talking to them in a gramatical aspect.

This farely short reflection is just intended to see that language problems related to the english language don't just take place in Britain or the USA, also where we live.

Comments?

Jonatas