Introduction / Mary Besemeres and Anna Wierzbicka -- Strangers at home / Kim Scott -- From bilingual to linguist / Michael Clyne -- Three worlds / Brij V. Lal -- Playgrounds and battlegrounds / Irene Ulman -- Returning to my mother's tongue / Zhengdao (Veronica) Ye -- East meets West, or does it really? / Jock Wong -- Growing up between two languages/two worlds / Andrea Witcomb -- Two languages, two cultures, one (?) self / Anna Wierbicka -- My experience of living in a different culture / Kyung-Joo Yoon -- Between żal and emotional blackmail / Mary Besemeres -- The journey of self-discovery in another language / Anna Gladkova -- Foster mother tongue / Eva Sallis.