if you just listen carefully to the people around you, picking out sounds, repeating them, feeling the patterns of the language as a rhythm that reverberates through your body while you’re speaking, eventually they’ll turn into a new language. A long time ago, most immigrants headed for one specific country and stayed there until they died, so they only had to learn the language spoken there. Now, when people are always on the move, our language becomes a mixture of all the scenes we’ve passed through on the way.
