Essay About Learning English As An American Language

The fact that Americans are only limited to learning English as the common language directly affects my personal life as well as my professional future due to my native tongue being Spanish. My mother was the one who originally taught me English, as well as my grandfather who was a U.S. Marine and would always speak English to all of my family. My mother was an English teacher so that facilitated my learning experience as well as fixing accent and grammatical errors. Coming to America I realized that even with advanced methods of learning English, I still had issues listening to the different accents and the different colloquial terms according to each state, because they all have certain words with different meanings.
The positive note about American’s lack of learning other languages is that job recruiters and agencies look out for people who can speak other languages, now that the modern world is so interconnected with the rest of the population in the planet, bilingualism is …show more content…
I have witnessed many foreigners who have struggled to fit into this society and continue to do so, but it is nice to lend a helping hand to a fellow foreigner who is lost. Language has been an important part of my life because it has gotten me to where I am today and will also help me in the future.
American’s limitation to one language also makes me stand out in a crowd or class of native speakers, sometimes working to my benefit and sometimes as a negative. For example, how some people will dislike my accent, naturally, because they aren’t used to foreigners, and will eventually push you away as an outcast. Although, even if it does make me stand out, it definitely shows that I am cultured and making an effort to educate myself in another country rather than my