Brian Truong

ICYMI I’ll be at #AWP2025 with these amazing panelists to talk about The Cost of Assimilation: Asian Diaspora Writers on Losing Their First Language on March 29 @annietan.com @trubrian.bsky.social @geetha-iyer.bsky.social See you there!!

I’m at this handle! But still nonetheless excited to collab on this event with you, Grace! 😊

back in the studio

The The The The In third grade, I was trilingual but could not pronounce “the” or “that” properly. No one corrected me—not my parents, my friends, or my teachers. They spared me like I had something stuck in my teeth...

I relate so much to this essay by @trubrian.bsky.social on the quiet grief of losing your mother tongue ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t...

The The The The In third grade, I was trilingual but could not pronounce “the” or “that” properly. No one corrected me—not my parents, my friends, or my teachers. They spared me like I had something stuck in my teeth...

my first post on bluesky (hi! who all is here?) — for ecotone, i wrote about my language loss, the innocent and weighty ways in which vietnamese & cantonese slipped from me. linguists have long studied the 3 stages of first-language attrition, and I posit a 4th.

ecotonemagazine.org/nonfiction/t...