Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: Why Love Is Harder in a Second Language | Magdalena Hoeller | TED

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Reviewer Gopjevich Reviewer On a cold but sunny autumn afternoon,
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I was riding on the back of my husband's motorcycle,
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just cruising along one of our favorite routes around Newcastle.
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It was a pretty fresh day,
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so we were all rugged up in our protective gear.
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At a set of red lights,
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my husband lifted his visor,
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and he said to me,
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Hey, come feel my handles.
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So naturally, I reached for his hips and gave them a playful squeeze and said,
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these handles are perfect baby.
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What he, of course, meant was his heated motorcycle handles,
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not his love handles.
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Yeah, a classic and genuine misunderstanding.
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And luckily, we both have good humor.
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Otherwise, this could have ended in an argument.
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But interactions like these happen every day in intercultural relationships.
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This is not unique to us, of course.
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In fact, one third of Australian marriages are intercultural these days,
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according to the ABS, which means we've never been more intimately connected across the globe than we are right now.
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What I didn't tell you so far is that I'm from Austria,
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so my first language is Austrian-German,
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and my husband is from Australia, so he speaks English.
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So these kinds of conversations,
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misunderstandings, long explanations of jokes and words shape our relationship.
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By a show of hands,
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who in here knows at least one intercultural couple?
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Maybe it's even you.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Now, in my research with intercultural couples,
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I found many beautiful aspects of having two different languages amongst partners,
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but also quite a few challenges that monolingual couples don't necessarily have to face.
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Let me ask you this.
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If you cannot flawlessly communicate with the person you want to be closest to in this world,
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how does that affect your relationship?
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This is what I'm going to answer for you today.
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I speak six languages and I focus my studies in linguistics
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and I worked with intercultural couples to uncover their language behavior and their dynamic.
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So let me take you on a journey today through the science behind all of these love handles stories out there.
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I'm going to let you in on three specific challenges that intercultural partners have to face on a daily basis,
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but sometimes don't even know that they're facing them them.
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Some of these are very, very hidden.
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Now, I'm focusing mostly on romantic relationships here,
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but you can apply this equally to intercultural friends or even workplace encounters.
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Oddly, these domains sometimes overlap.
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The first challenge I'd like to share with you today is how different languages carry different emotional weights for people.
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What does that mean?
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It basically means that when I say I love you in English,
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it doesn't feel the same as saying ich liebe dich for me as a German speaker.
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That's because language isn't just a tool for communication.
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It shapes our emotional experience and our first language usually evokes the strongest one.
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That's why a declaration of love,
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which is such an emotionally charged statement,
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usually holds more weight for someone in their first language than in any language learned later in life.
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Now, I grew up with the words,
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ich liebe dich, from my parents,
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so over the years of my life,
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these have gained an emotional weight beyond what any other language can achieve for me.
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So what does that mean for intercultural partners now?
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Imagine a Japanese-French couple, and they speak English together.
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Are they unable to communicate the true strength of their feelings because of this language distance?
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Now, my husband and I,
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we mostly speak English together.
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Does that mean when I say,
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I love you in English,
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it means less because I'm emotionally detached from it.
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We can observe this also with other emotions.
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For example, something that comes up in relationships, anger, frustration.
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Now, with anger, it's very often a totally different experience in English.
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It's very often the impact that matters more instead of the words.
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It's the classic, honey, it's not what you said,
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it's how you said it.
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Sound familiar?
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Yeah.
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Let me give you an example.
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Early on in my relationship,
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during an argument, I dropped a certain C word.
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I'm not going to say what it is, you all know.
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Now, at that time in my relationship,
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I had no grasp how offensive that word is in English.
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To me, it was just four letters string together,
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just something I heard around the street here in Australia.
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I had no emotional connection to it.
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But my husband, he was shocked, and rightly so.
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I've never used it since in any context.
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But that's the thing.
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When intercultural partners fight, we have to think of many things here.
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Is the word choice right?
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Mine clearly wasn't.
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How does that word land on the other person?
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So what's the impact?
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Mine was clearly horrible and misdirected.
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And thirdly, what is the delivery of it all?
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So what's the intonation?
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Is it too strong, too weak?
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And that's where intercultural partners,
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they bring their language background,
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they bring their cultural background to one table and have to negotiate this in a heated moment at the same time.
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There's too much happening.
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Now, fighting is already difficult with monolingual partners,
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but adding all of these elements,
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that requires a lot of communication.
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But let's be honest, who actually sits down to determine the terms of a fight before a fight?
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Right?
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Doesn't happen.
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The second challenge I'd like to share with you today is humor.
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Making each other laugh is a big part of relationships,
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but humor often doesn't translate very well.
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Sometimes a joke is funny in one language,
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but it falls flat in another,
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or it could be quite offensive.
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Now, linguistically, we can break this down into two parts,
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into receiving humor and producing humor.
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From a receiving side, a partner might feel unsure unsure
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if they grasp the true meaning of a joke or just a superficial facet thereof.
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That could be a purely linguistic issue,
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like not picking up on sarcasm or not recognizing a pun because the language skills just aren't there yet.
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There's also the cultural aspect, of course.
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Partners with different language backgrounds naturally grew up in different in-groups of of a joke.
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So the people that understand a joke and the people that don't.
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I never understood why the Aussie phrase,
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shrimp on a Barbie, isn't actually funny to Australians,
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it actually quite annoys them.
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My husband doesn't understand why the super cringy,
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nostalgic, 90s TV show Liebesgeschichten und Heiratsachen is so hilarious to me.
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Different in-groups.
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That means that intercultural partners have limited common ground to work with here.
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And if one partner doesn't understand the joke,
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the other is stuck trying to explain it to them.
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And that conversation is never funny.
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From a producing side, we all know that producing humor in a second language is an incredibly difficult skill to master.
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There are so many elements to get right.
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The subtext of a joke,
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the punchline, the context, the delivery,
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all while making sure that it's appropriate and, well, funny.
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Right?
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Now, in my research with intercultural couples,
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they all confirmed that they feel less funny when joking in a second language with their partners.
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Can you imagine what that does to your self-esteem and to your couple dynamic?
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In one particular interview, one of the male participants said about his wife,
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I don't think she's ever made me laugh in English.
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She's a German speaker.
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Now, these sentiments aren't uncommon.
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Even I can attest to that.
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I always felt that I was effortlessly hilarious in Austrian-German,
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but I couldn't bring that same energy to English,
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and I was so disheartened that my husband would never know the true comedic genius his wife actually is.
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Such a tragedy.
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But that's the problem here.
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Humor, or the lack thereof,
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can create distance between partners.
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It can stop us from truly knowing each other.
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I've left the last challenge for you,
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which I find the most interesting one,
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and it is also the most hidden one.
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It is something couples deal with,
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and it is so subtle,
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they very often don't even notice.
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And it is the hidden power dynamics between intercultural partners.
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From a pure language perspective,
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and we're only talking language here,
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there is always a partner who is linguistically superior and someone who is inferior.
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You might think now, well,
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it's the one who speaks the language better, right?
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That can be one aspect,
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but it's not quite that simple.
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There are many more layers and facets to it.
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You are correct, though.
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One aspect is language proficiency.
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Now, even though my English skills are really good and high,
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my husband is a native speaker.
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He will always be more proficient in English than I am.
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And that puts him at an advantage in a lot of situations.
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He's the one who manages all of our contracts.
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He's the one who explains vocabulary to me during movies when I don't understand.
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All of this isn't a big deal,
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of course, but in some ways it flows into the dynamic of our relationship because I am linguistically dependent on him.
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And that is something we never notice on a daily basis.
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It's extremely apparent though when we have an argument.
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We're having all these heated discussions in English,
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my second language, his first language.
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After a day of processing life and work and emotions and conversations in English,
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it takes me double the energy to find the right words in these heated moments.
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His responses are immediate, but I would very often just like to say,
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thank you for your response,
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I will get back to you in three to five business days.
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So you see, the partner with the higher language proficiency does have the upper hand here.
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But like I said, there's other factors too.
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There's also the global status of the language in use amongst partners.
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Now, global player languages like English,
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Spanish, Mandarin, they're viewed as superior in comparison to lesser spoken languages,
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so couples naturally gravitate towards them.
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Again, English versus Austrian-German, I'm not winning so far.
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The dominant global status of English will always take preference,
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and that flows into the dynamic of our relationship because we're not speaking my language as much as I'd like to.
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But one factor we cannot forget is the linguistic environment where a couple chooses to live,
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or the country.
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Now, in Australia, a native speaker like my husband is in his linguistic comfort zone.
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But if you remove that safe environment,
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the power dynamics can very much change.
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As soon as we travel to Austria,
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suddenly I'm the one ordering food at restaurants,
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I'm the one translating at family events.
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The roles reverse.
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So the power dynamics are not just defined by the couple itself,
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but also by their surroundings.
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I've presented you with a range of hidden language challenges now that intercultural partners face on a daily basis,
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and I think it's pretty apparent.
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Dealing with two different languages here is tricky.
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You might be asking yourself right now, So, what's the solution?
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What can we do?
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The bad news is that these things never really go away,
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no matter how long your relationship lasts.
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My husband and I, we've been together for nine years now,
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and we still struggle with most of these things.
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The good news is that I can give you two very simple recommendations today.
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The first one is awareness.
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Be aware that your emotions can be guided by your language,
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love, anger, and everything in between.
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Be aware that your humor is rooted in your cultural background,
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and it sometimes doesn't translate in another language.
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And be aware that your language skills and your surroundings can raise or lower your linguistic power over your partner.
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Because if you're conscious that these things are happening for you behind the scenes,
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you'll realize that these things are also happening for your partner.
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And only then you can work on my second recommendation together,
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and that is actively build your microculture.
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Your microculture is your perfect blend of both your cultures,
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your habits, your traditions, and your languages.
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So build your love language,
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invent new words that don't exist,
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Switch between your languages as much as possible.
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Define your own humor.
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Get your own insider jokes.
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Define your own comedic language.
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That's the humor that counts.
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And work towards an equal power dynamic.
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Give each other chances to grow in each other's languages and countries.
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What I want you to take away today is that all these challenges are tricky,
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but they're also an opportunity to evolve,
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no matter if it's with an intercultural friend,
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or at work, or in a romantic relationship.
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Love is hard in a second language,
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but it's definitely worth it.
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I'm sure you'll all handle it too.
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Thank you.

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