The Language Of Love With Saoirse Ronan | Encore
Modern Love
The New York Times
4.3 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Modern Love The Podcast is supported by |
| 0:04.0 | Produced by the I-Lab at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:19.0 | From The New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love. |
| 0:27.0 | Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm your host, Megna Chakrabardi. |
| 0:43.0 | In many ways, love is about communication. |
| 0:47.0 | But what about when you're trying to communicate with someone in a different language |
| 0:51.0 | that you're not fully fluent in? |
| 0:54.0 | Emily Robbins writes about that in her essay, |
| 0:56.4 | Grappling with the Language of Love. |
| 0:59.0 | It's read by Sursher Ronan. |
| 1:01.0 | She recently starred as Joe March in Little Women. |
| 1:07.0 | We often hear about how hard it is to be articulate and a foreign language. |
| 1:12.0 | But when I began to study Arabic, what took me a long time to learn |
| 1:17.0 | was not how to speak, but how to listen. |
| 1:22.0 | Looking back, I see that my inability to listen well |
| 1:26.0 | caused me my first love. |
| 1:29.0 | The man I loved was an Iraqi doctor. |
| 1:32.0 | Young like me, he had been forced out of his country by war |
| 1:37.0 | and had come to Syria to work in a refugee camp. |
| 1:41.0 | This was in 2008, before the revolution. |
| 1:46.0 | I was in Syria to study Arabic. |
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