prompt:
“Some students have a background, identity, interest, or talent that is so meaningful they believe their application would be incomplete without it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.”
The essay is about one of my interests: languages.
Please feel free to structure the essay you think is most engaging, Also feel free to ask me any questions related to the essay, especially if you want specific examples/stories. Also, I’d appreciate it if you included details.
I made a list of some facts and personal information you need to know about me to write the essay. You can include some of them in the context you think best fits.
how I learned each language
Arabic: my mother tongue. I learned classic Arabic -which is dying since everyone speaks in their dialect, altogether neglecting modern traditional Arabic- and poetry on my own because the courses given at school weren’t enough to quench my curiosity. Reading books, poems and trying to imitate the style of my favorite authors helped me the most.
English: playing video games (yoville), speaking English at home with my siblings, making friendships with foreign people, reading Shakespeare and trying to imitate his style as well as creating a list of the not familiar words I find in his books and try to include them in my everyday language and essays since they are descriptive and serve the purpose of a language much.
Spanish: Maslama al-Majriti has always been one of my favorite Andalusi literature pioneers. Besides his chemistry, math, astronomy, and economic contribution, he was also a great poet. He’s one of many great scholars of that period, and I felt intrigued to know more about it. Therefore I started learning Spanish. I downloaded many applications at first until I found the right two: Duolingo and HelloTalk. The first application built up my vocabulary and taught me how to structure sentences, while the latter hooked me up with people who wanted to learn Arabic/ English and would teach me Spanish in exchange.
ASL: trying to oppose life’s unfairness, I decided to learn ASL. Deaf and hearing people have a hard time mingling in society, and since they indeed have the greatness to share and stories that would teach me something new, I started watching BillVicars lectures on youtube, practicing with my best friend, signing the lyrics of songs, and teaching my nephew sign language.
Braille: boredom. I was bored, and I needed to learn something that would ignite my creativity once again. Braille was the answer and the fact that it enhances one of my senses was a bonus!
Morse: I googled morse code, printed off a paper, and pulled it out in the dullest, most-time wasting classes. It saved my brain and time. I decided to learn it because Morse is an irrational homo-sapien fear suppressant in case I was in danger.
– I never got grounded for talking with my best friend in class, not because my teachers did not care, but instead, they never noticed our languages. I encouraged my friend to be my ASL learning partner; after a couple of weeks of learning, we were comfortable carrying a conversation with our hands, we started noticing our repeated mistakes -hand typos- as we like to call them.
-At home, I can talk freely about what would get me in the most significant trouble because my sister speaks Spanish too! And when boredom takes over me, I imagine that my neighbor, who’s my 78-year-old aunt, actually knows Morse code, and I gently tap “help me” signals, imaging her waiting for my message and coming to rescue me.
-I love orange peel walls. They do indeed speak! It is not with words, nor sounds, nor because I have hallucinations, but rather the patterns I feel with my fingertips that translate into words, thanks to Braille.
– I was fortunate to be born in a bilingual environment, with Arabic as my mother tongue. I dive into the history of Arabic poetry, entertain myself with
-I like to challenge myself by structuring Spanish sentences that my Arabic-speaking mother would understand easily. summoning up the words that I know, which come from the 8% of Spanish words with an Arabic origin.
I consider chemistry a language. That is why it’s my favorite subject.
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