Opinion: People often reduce language barriers to inconvenience. They picture awkward restaurant interactions or emails riddled with grammar mistakes. What they do not talk about is how language shapes the emotional architecture of multilingual families.
Rainee Li is a Medill first-year and author of “Threads of a Typhoon.” She can be contacted at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected]. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
