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No Need to Translate

I rode in a van with my parents and other family members to my great-uncle’s funeral. Everyone spoke in our native language, Ilocano. I thought it was so fascinating to understand everything they were saying–even though I’m no longer surrounded by the dialect like I used to be when I was a kid. My aunt asked my mom in Ilocano, “Does she know what we’re talking about?”

I answered in English, “I can understand.” It’s inherent like it will always be part of me.

While I can understand everything they’re saying, I can’t speak it which separates me from friends who understand and speak Tagalog or Spanish. They can pass the skill down to their children. I cannot.

But for now, I love that I don’t have to ask my relatives to translate for me. I get it. I understand.

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Welcome to my site, derived from an advice column I wrote while getting my MBA. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I give helpful, opinionated advice based on my own experience and from the expertise of my extensive network. For more, click here.

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