so that's what I did. I watched cartoons in Spanish, read books in Spanish, and took a Spanish class at school. After a few months, I overcame the language barrier and was translating for everyone that wanted to speak to my brother, sometimes even for my parents. I taught him English while he helped me with my Spanish. We were unstoppable partners in crime, taking on the World together just as I had…
In “Se Habla Espanol” the author, executive communication’s director for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Tanya Maria Barrientos, explains the struggles of a Latina who does not speak Spanish fluently. Barrientos has two main audiences who she is addressing. The first audience is mainstream America, such as her classmates and other people born in America that she desired to fit in with. She is trying to help them gain a better cultural understanding by exposing them to her personal views.…
Introductory Paragraph - “It Seems to Me: Speaking Spanish in America by Walter Rein” A. He was born in America to American parents, also that he have a U.S. passport and a Bachelor of Science in English; the point is that he learned Spanish in Lima, Peru, but he also speaking Spanish in America and that’s how the effective begin. B. Walter Rein, he can learn a second language of Spanish, which is called a bilingual including how he interact with other people. C.…
His mother worked as a part-time typist while his father was a dental technician. In his autobiography book talked about him and his transition as a Hispanic in United States and how he reflected about assimilation of the dilemmas in his life. Rodriguez had problems to learn English when he was a child and he demonstrates that during that time to be a part of public society he needed to abandon his mother tongue, and also, be treated as equal. On many occasions, people speak of "learning a language" as if it were a process in which it begins and ends. Everyone really has their own notion of what it is to know a new language.…
Growing up, in a Hispanic home I learned the values of life in a differently with hardship but always maintaining closeness. At home, I was taught that family is the most important thing in life. Even though I was born in the United States, my family taught me how to stay in touch with my Hispanic roots and never be ashamed of my culture. Speaking Spanish is greatly important to me. Because of this, I am able to communicate easily with my family members and the Hispanic community.…
Thanks to my parents migrating from Mexico to the U.S., I had the opportunity to be raised in South Texas or, as locals call it, “el valley”. Growing up in el valley is different than growing up anywhere else in America. The community is made up of primarily Hispanic Spanish-speakers who live in lower-class neighborhoods. At an early age most children from the area, including myself, are taught a skill that is valuable in today’s society, which is being bilingual. I recall going to school where I spoke English and then going home where I spoke Spanish.…
As outcome, I try everything to improve my Spanish like, I took Spanish for three years in high school, listen to music in Spanish, read Spanish and practice writing it. My motivation is my Mother and family. Without them criticizing and making fun of me, I would have never pushed myself to actually taking the learn the language. It’s similar to Richard’s educational experience because it was hard for him to speak Spanish to his relatives after he learned to speak English.…
John Simon, the author of “Why Good English Is Good for You”, addresses his arguments mainly towards people who do not employ the use of proper English and those who shape their minds; Simon engages certain rhetorical choices in order to prove that good English is tremendously beneficial to all individuals. Having initially written this article for Esquire magazine, Simon was able to reach a broad audience to communicate his ideas. Throughout the majority of the article, the conversation is directed towards those who do not agree with Simon’s viewpoint. The author’s goal in writing this particular article is to show that using proper English is helpful in multiple ways: good English is achieved through commitment and self-discipline, and it…
A few years ago I was asked by my department chair to teach an English Language Development (ELD) class. As I had only been teaching for a year, I was unfamiliar with the full requirements of the class and nervous to take on what I felt was a BIG responsibility. Once I accepted our dean of curriculum asked me to be the ELD advisor. I took two days to decide that with my family background, my grandfather picked fruit for a living and my mom picked and packed growing up, I could make the students understand that working hard in school and continuing their education post high school could help them get more out of life than merely staying at a menial job. My first year was difficult.…
Fluent in Spanish my native language and upper intermediate level of English, written and oral, Hardworking, 10 years of experience in banking, manage people and solve problems. Perform all daily banking activities, such as verified and approved wire transfer requested by Internet or letter by customers, review and approved the checks to be deposit in our correspondent bank, review and approve new customer documentation, Responsible for treasury accounting support, create MT-199, MT999 and MT-103 if needed. Review Swift Alliance Inbox. Responsible for the approval of International Transfer requested by customer in DOP, USD, EUR…
V. said we do English and Spanish every day at circle time and everything in the class is labeled with Spanish and English and the books in the library are the same way.” Ms. V chose this field because she loves children and she wants to see that the children know their language and they were not forgot about when they were learning English. Mrs. V’ s native language is Spanish and she is from Mexico City. She started learning English at the age of 13. Mrs. V, said, “yes she was fluent in her native language before she started speaking English.”.…
Hello "best friend"!!! I hope all is well (not). And yes, I did hear about how you inadvertently called me, rather than Mr. Artopoulos, your best friend. As for the piece of writing that I promised you, I have no idea what to write.…
How do we decide what is correct and incorrect in terms of grammar and who decides this? Prescriptive rules and language authority are often talked about in the book How English Works by Anne Curzan and Michael Adams (Curzan and Adams, 2012). After doing some reading and research, the usage of prescriptive grammar rules in my future classroom would be very limited. I would limit these rules based off of language authority and grammar rules.…
A good practise while learning a foreign language is the reflection. One has to think critically what are his/her own strengths and weaknesses in order to be able to improve and reach his/her objectives. The aim of this review is precisely this – I will expose the key factors of my English learning, then I will indicate the ways that I find most and less useful to learn a language, next I will list my strong points and my weak spots and finally I will give some ideas to ameliorate my command of English as a foreign language. I started studying English when I was six years old, which means I have been learning it for thirteen years. Until 2015, I studied it in two different environments: the school and a private academy.…
Being in a job which required me to communicate with the other worker in English which is not my first language was a mixture of an interesting, difficult, and challenging experience. Writing emails, shift turnover reports, monthly reports, weekly reports, and answering phone calls were some examples of tasks that we had to do using English in our work. Using Arabic was extremely forbidden, especially in emails. We had to work hard to improve our skills in English because the management would not spend more time and money to teach us. It would distract us away from the work which would create a shortage for them.…