Linguistic frustrations
My parents are visiting me (easy as pie now that we live in the same country again), and talking about my research in anything except English is a little frustrating. Because I attended college in the States, I learned the vast majority of my technical vocabulary (in any field I know technical vocabulary in) in English. Many technical terms aren’t listed in a regular dictionary, or the technical meaning of the term isn’t covered. (Not that I own dictionaries for my mother tongues anyway, other than the English-Finnish E160 dictionary my mother bought me.) The English-Finnish technical dicitonary allows me to (very slowly) discuss my research in correct Finnish, but my Swedish technical vocabulary is at a high school level. Most of the words I need to describe my research, or my boyfriend’s research, or my groupmates’ research, I simply don’t know and have trouble guessing in Swedish. (Anyone know what sputtering is in Swedish?) I think my German technical vocabulary is better than my Swedish one, because I’ve read theses and books relating to my research in German!
I don’t think I’m in an unusual situation. Parents of TCKs may want to think ahead about how to provide resources for their children to use vocabulary they learn in one language in their other languages – if my mother hadn’t bought me the English-Finnish technical dictionary, I’d be even worse off.
Haha, sounds familiar! What is your research project? I’m doing one at the moment as well (a final year project), but decided to do it in France, partly to force myself to learn technical vocabulary of my other language.
Like you I attended international schools and normally go to a university in an English-speaking country, so I’m a little biased towards English, in particular in the technical department. My parents normally speak to me in English though, so when I’m explaining it to them I now have to translate the technical terms from French to English – which is harder than I thought it would be!
Having said that, half the time my supervisor here speaks to me in English anyway – so I don’t always learn the French terms (sometimes I have to ask). As for sputtering, I guess you don’t mean that in a manufacturing context, do you? Because if you do, our projects may be remarkably similar…
We obviously don’t do manufacturing, but the basics are the same. I’m talking about sputtering as a method for depositing thin films. I work on chemical vapor deposition myself, but since sputtering is historically important as a context for limitations and opportunities of CVD, I wanted to talk about it. Do you do thin film deposition too, then?
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