The Egg and “Ei”
Finding our voices in Vienna: Catrina, Cedric, the author, Nicky, and Adah. (Oh, and “Albert.”)
© Joyce McGreevy
What Four Viennese Teens Taught Me
About Speaking Two Languages
I was sitting on a park bench in Vienna when they approached me, speaking two languages.
What’s more international than the Volksgarten? An Austrian park in formal French style around a replica Greek temple, it attracts visitors from around the world.
The Volksgarten (“people’s garden”) blooms with roses and buzzes with languages.
Norman Davies (public domain)
I’d been thinking about language, about the surprising fact that I’d found it easier to speak Hungarian than German.
Let me explain. One of my travel pleasures is taking language lessons and then practicing every day with native speakers. Picking things up little by little. Savoring the...
