The Tongue I Left Behind

Driven from his homeland by a coup, a poet can no longer write in his mother tongue and must remake himself in a borrowed language. Across eight linked stories, loss of language becomes loss of self, until he discovers that a third voice, born in the space between two tongues, can turn that loss into a new source of creation.

コースを通して聴く全レッスンの英文を1タップで連続再生

1. The Last Word in My LanguageOn the night of the crossing, a poet feels his mother tongue begin to peel from his body約22分
2. Words That Taste of AbsenceFluent on the surface, the poet cannot reach the emotional depths of his new language約22分
3. Dreaming in Two GrammarsIn sleep the two languages trespass on each other, and the unconscious begins to fuse them約22分
4. The Accent That BetraysAn accent that will not fade keeps marking the poet as an outsider, until he claims it as his own約22分
5. Translating MyselfTranslating his own early poems, the poet negotiates between the self he was and the self he has become約22分
6. The Silence Between LanguagesIn the wordless country between his two tongues, the poet finds not a grave but a threshold約22分
7. A Third VoiceFrom the seam between two tongues, a new poetic voice is born that belongs to neither約22分
8. Home Is a Verb NowThe poet redefines home not as a lost place but as an act he makes, daily, in words約22分