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{{newreview<!-- Lappin -->[[image:Lappin_Dream.jpg|left|authorlink=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1844085783?ie=UTF8&tag=Elena Lappinthebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1844085783]] |title===[[What Language Do I Dream In?by Elena Lappin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating=5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Autobiography|genre=Autobiography]] |summary=Speaking many languages fluently seems close to a superpower to most of us. Elena Lappin's memoir is about how she came to be at home in five or more languages, and what effect this has on her identity. Her family's history and the emigrations that led to her learning so many languages are caught up with European events. As a child she moved from Russia to Czechoslovakia and from there to Germany. Elena was encouraged by exchange holidays abroad to learn French and English too. Then she chose university in Israel and learnt Hebrew. So just as the rest of us might pick up bits of furniture or books from our various homes, Elena picked up a language every time. A clever member of an intellectual household, with parents who were translators and writers, there never seems to have been great effort involved in acquiring languages, it just happened.[[What Language Do I Dream In? by Elena Lappin|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844085783</amazonukbr>}}