The film “American Tongues” presented us with many examples about the different types of speech that can exist in a cultural backgrounds. The fact that there are so many accents throughout our county is pretty cool. Watching the video made me understand that even though we all may speak with a different accent, we are still part of similar cultural backgrounds. As there are different ways to speak the American language, there are people who discriminate others when they can’t speak the language very well. I was born and raised in Cuba, where the main language is Spanish. When I came to the United States I had no clue how I was going to start learning English, and even less, speak it. The more I live in the country, however, the more I realize
