In My Tongue

Um, I think my earliest... I mean, Polish was technically my first language. I don't know if I remember anything of my... Ah, what would I... Okay, when I was like... I think praying with my grandma in Polish. I think that's probably the first thing that like... the very clear thing because it was like a ritual that we would do every night, so... I feel like that's the first... that's the first probably?

And Spanish... I think it would be with my grandpa. I don't know. Like, it was talked to me--Not as much because I was like, you know, I was taken away from my dad, and all that messy stuff. But like, yeah, I guess it would be just my dad's family or playing with my cousins or my aunts and uncles. I don't know, something like that.

And then French... Also don't remember exactly... But I do remember--Okay, there's one thing I remember being in like a preschool run by nuns. [laughter] And, they spoke French. I know. [laughter] They spoke French. I think--I remember sort of being confused, but I don't remember clearly because I was so young.

And then English! I remember clearly because I didn't know really English--like I knew words in English and like, I would kind of communicate with my dad in like, this, like broken English, French, Spanish kind of thing. Well, yeah, I think it was like, the number one. I was so fazed by how English people wrote one. I was like, "What? "O"? What the... Why? How? Why are you doing it like this? It's so weird. It does not make sense," you know?

Yeah, there's definitely, at Canterbury, that's when I realized... I was just like, "Damn, like, English? Yeah, I don't know her." [laughter] Yeah, right? Like that's, I think that's my first... Or I remember like, go--I remember being in French school and, like, them teaching us English for the first time. I remember that too. But English is pretty clear in my memory because it's my last language technically. But it's crazy that I speak it the most now.