Tara Bray Smith on true communication
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Tara Bray Smith was born and raised in Hawaii. She is the author of West of Then, a memoir, and Betwixt, a novel for young adults. She lives with her husband in New York City and Berlin. www.tarabraysmith.com.
February 8th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
I loved this. I related so well to not being able to push myself to read German. I speak German fluently but I simply can’t sit down and enjoy a German novel.
I also understand how German can sound “shockingly” beautiful when some people speak it. And I grew up with French speakers who equated speaking German to hacking.
This piece was lovely.