I am very sorry to hear that your mother had a bad experience when she first came into California. When I first came to California, I already know how to speak English since English is our second language in my country. At the beginning, I find it hard to understand what people say so I made sure to study the language more and just speak English every single day. Today, I can say I am much better when it comes to speaking and understanding English and that helped me in my studies and nursing career. I worked in a hospital where patient can use a phone to have interpreter available for them. We also have trained Spanish speaking health care provider that can be at bedside and ready to interpret. All our after care discharge can be written
