lost in translation

Still remember attending a documentary screening last year arranged by birds eye view. In Q and A section,the female Chinese director addressed her career as a writer in UK. She started to write her debut novel with her broken English, and it turned out to be one of the best seller which is supporting her film making career financially.

I've never read her novel, and I don't remember her name anymore. But to me, it's the best example of the fascination of different language systems. Mandarin is my mother tongue, in which I can express myself clearly and efficiently. As a vehicle of though,it is the most dominant one which help me to make important decisions in my life. As to English, I started to learn when I was 10, but it's totally different story, the translation mechanism always takes important part. In most conditions, I start with a thought in Mandarin, and translate it into English, then finally speak out or write down in English.

However, things have changed a lot since I moved to UK and studied my master degree. Communications in English are so frequent and instant. This situation gave me hard time in the beginning, it was more like a elementary student, me of course, trying so hard with limited vocabulary to speak to university students. And I turned this frustration into a short film-"Language Solitude." (see above) After bearing with this status for one year, I feel more natural and easy to talk or write in English. It seems that translation from Chinese is not as dominant as before,that is to say, there's a English Logic in my mind now, how amazing is that! Therefore, I create this blog. With constant writing, hopefully it would help the "English me"grow , really look forward to see where it would take me and how my personally developed through learning language.

To whom might be reading, feel free to give me comments and also correction of my broken English. Cheers.