Language has really come to define my life in these past nine months. I feel a lot more aware of the language itself that someone speaks. I'm not talking about the meaning that their words convey, I mean the physical way they speak, their accents, as well as an overall consciousness of what language is coming out of their mouth. It's a hard state to explain, but it's led me to remark different things: for one, how almost everyone has a different quality of voice when they change languages (some go lower pitched, some speak less gravelly, etc.). Or how I speak less than I used to in the US.. and how I speak less with my hands in French than in English.