''To have another language is to possess a second soul.''
-Charlemagne
''Accent is the soul of a language; it gives the feeling and truth to it.''
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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      I am student in Literature: option Language. I was at Armand-Corbeil High School, in Terrebonne. My option was advanced English. Currently I am at Lionel-Groulx College, in Ste-Therese. I love English and especially the different kinds of accents that go with the languages. Hearing and finding new accents from all around the world is like a hobby for me. A person has her own accent that she gets from the people that are close to her and language of her country. Each one is different. I use a program, Ventrilo,to speak with people from the United States and from Europe.

      I love learning about other cultures and how people that lives there are. I went to New York with the people from my program and we learned so many things about the culture there. I went to a Broadway show and saw the beauty of the American language and the mix of great music with it. I do extremely well in human psychology and in language because, in a sense, the two of them come together. Humans created languages because they wanted to create families and communities and also to exchange goods. Language is something that is really useful and can get you in any country you want. With it you can communicate information and receive some too. I want to focus on my objective, to one day live in Japan as a Japanese translator. I want to learn that language because it is a mysterious language with a mystifying origin. Nobody knows the roots of the Japanese language; it is not with Germanic or Latin roots. I love mysteries and this one seems to be one of the core existing mysteries in language. I work with customers and I like hearing the different languages customers can have.

     Where I work I was able to practice my Spanish, English, French and German a bit. My biggest aspiration for right now is to become a Japanese translator, work for a big touring company and live in Japan. I hope more people learn about the beauty of the Japanese and try to learn more about them. They are full of surprises and gifts for the world, they are a nation that believe in love and reincarnation and are really intelligent. When I think of the connection I could create by being a translator between two countries, I am amazed by how language can help people understand each other and learn more about the culture of the other. People need to see that you need to love another country to feel more at home. I love Japan, but I know my heart will always be in Quebec. I want to enter university without any itch and finally become the woman I'm born to be.