Translating for My Friends Is My Love Language
Whenever I travel, I make a point to speak the local language as much as possible.
Staseraoggicenapranzoun bicchiere di vinoun’altra bottiglia
cucchiaiyogurt
See you soon.
cinquantaquindici
translationmi chiamomy name is
Matt Ortile is the author of the essay collection The Groom Will Keep His Name and the co-editor of the nonfiction anthology Body Language. He is also the executive editor of Catapult magazine and was previously the founding editor of BuzzFeed Philippines. He has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and MacDowell; has taught workshops for Kundiman, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and PEN America; and has written for Esquire, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Out magazine, and BuzzFeed News, among others. He is a graduate of Vassar College, which means he now lives in Brooklyn.
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