Lost in Translation
Is language really important for exploring
something more about yourself?
“Every day I feel like I’ve gotten to know myself better.
To know one more language, in my opinion, is to become one more person.
Since I came to this country, I feel more alone, not in a bad or pitying way, but in an inspiring way.
In this way, I can think more and observe more, and when I do that, I hear more voices.
The more voices I hear, the more languages get stuck in my brain.
During this time, I traveled to other Nordic countries, and I can even tell the differences of the language Finnish from the other languages. I think that I know the language, as if I own it, but in reality,
it’s not mine because I still can’t understand it.”
What happens when you speak or hear a
language you don’t know?
Listening to something you literally don’t understand feels so interesting.
I feel like I’m imagine things in my head what people are saying.
Like, are the people behind me gossiping about me? I couldn’t know.
Sometimes old people come to me and talk in Finnish, but I couldn’t know.
In Finland I spend the time with recording sound, recording voices of
people and trying to listening to people what they are saying in a language that I don’t understand.
I got out of my comfort zone when I came to this country,
I feel different, more confident, maybe more myself, but also more lost.
Getting to know a new culture, a new smell, a new society,
getting to know new persons is something what inspires me.
It’s like finding a whole new person in me.
I am making a project about being lost in translation.
I want to document my experience in this process, because it inspires me.
You can watch the short film “Lost in Translation” from this link:
https://youtu.be/QhLL0wydD54?si=5BWBXprv4jU1ZDOd
