Code-Switching In Spanish Language

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La mayoría de los hispanohablantes de los Estados Unidos que son segunda or tercera generations often develop their own language among the English and Spanish languages. In most of these second and third generations, Spanish is commonly spoken in the house and English is learned through schooling or just interactions with other English speaking people in one's community. A stigma that derives from this homemade language is that the person who speaks Spanglish might not know enough Spanish or they might not know enough English, therefore, they interchange, share, extended and do code-switching. This phenomenon leads to the person who speaks Spanglish to second-guess or doubt their identity or wrongfully choose an identity that does not feel

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