I wasn’t able to connect with “Foreign Words”
while writing my memoir because my topic was very different and there wasn’t
any connection that I could have used but I felt very close connection to it.
It has been very long time since I have been here and as years go by I
experience language barrier in my own native language than any other family
members in my family. I feel the reason could be because when I came to this
country I was a very young girl, going to school here and not been able to use
my native language here like we would in India, my native language skills
started to become very low. I realize everyday that knowing where I came from,
reminding myself what my religion is about, that makes me who I am today so the
family roots are very important and without them we cannot understand
ourselves. I remember the particular discussion about the book when we talking
about the education, how they only get taught in French but not in Sango, I remember
when I was going to school in India I was taught in both languages, Hindi and English
but the only difference was when I was taught in Hindi it was only up to 2nd
grade and rest was in English. The opinion I can really say is learning in two different
languages can have its own advantage. I know I did even though I can’t really
write in Hindi anymore but Hindi always will be with me. So there wasn’t any
relation between my memoir paper and Foreign Words but I can relate to
foreign words with my own experience and my research paper that I am writing on
“Status of Hindi in India”.