I write about languages — the ones I've learned, the ones I'm still learning, and the lives they've made possible.
Each one has changed me.
The essays gathered here are the record of that change, and what it means to spend a life inside the wide variety of human languages.
If any of this sounds like something you've felt yourself, in your own languages, in your own way — you're already part of the audience these pages were written for.
Welcome.
— A.C. Maas