This is the Guardian.

My name is Jacob Mikaewski.

I'm the author of Behemoth Bully Deep,

how the English language is taking over the planet.

The sorrowful comes out of two things.

One is my experience of growing up bilingual.

My parents were immigrants from Poland.

We didn't have a strong grasp of English when they arrived the United States.

As a child, I spoke only Polish at home and they're English in school.

Although there were some trials and tribulations along the way,

it took a long time for me to smooth out my accent.

Gradually, English took the field.

It became the language I used for education,

friendship, business, travel.

And yet, in some ways, it never became the language of my heart.

That was still Polish.

As useful as English was, and it is enormously useful.

It never spoke to me at the level of emotion, or even beauty.

But if I felt a certain sense of loss and not being able to use my mother tongue more often,

I didn't really think too much about it until I came across a remarkable book

by Polish-Language-Libynia Australia named Anna Wierzbitska.

The book's title was imprisoned in English,

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