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BBC World Service: The Pain of Losing Your Mother Tongue

Croatia, Ece Temelkuran, Parthian Europa Carnivale, Turkey, Women in Translation, writing -

BBC World Service: The Pain of Losing Your Mother Tongue

Writer Ece Temelkuran describes the struggle to maintain her Turkish language while writing in English. She now lives in Croatia's capital Zagreb and she discusses the pain of beginning to forget basic words in her mother tongue.

 

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