Mom In Translation

Rough Translation

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4.8 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

For our season finale, a listener's story: When a six-year-old boy adopts Tokyo as his new home, his American mom has to figure out where she belongs in her son's new life.

If you want to share your story, email [email protected]

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0:00.0	Hey, before we start the show, we understand that some of you are still getting other
0:05.0	NPR podcasts in your rough translation feed, and that is annoying, and we are really sorry.
0:10.9	But there is a fix, just tweet at NPR Help or send us an email, we'll get you in the right
0:16.1	hands.
0:17.1	I'm Gregory Warner, and you're listening to Rough Translation from NPR.
0:22.2	We love to hear from you your emails and tweets and reviews about the rough translation
0:26.4	moments in your life.
0:28.6	How you're figuring out who you are in a different place.
0:32.4	We got this email from a listener about taking language class in Germany, having to choose
0:36.9	between feminine and masculine nouns.
0:39.6	Are you D-student, or they are student?
0:43.8	And you don't have to travel, of course, to have a rough translation moment.
0:47.4	A listener in Minnesota told us that our episode about two sisters in Pakistan encouraged
0:52.1	her to speak out about something that she kept silent about for 25 years.
0:56.4	By the way, we'd love to hear more about that story if you're listening.
0:59.8	And we'd love to hear from all of you.
1:02.4	How is where you are, or where you've been, affected who you've become?
1:08.9	Write us, we may use your story in a future episode.
1:11.3	Hello.
1:12.3	I hear you.
1:13.3	Yay, I can hear you.
1:14.3	So today we are going to spend time with one of your stories.
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