English Channel

Life is full of long desires that we long to fulfill and accomplish; however we rarely have the opportunity to pursue those desires within our given boundaries. Now imagine that you were granted a ticket, a golden ticket to set foot wherever you’ve desired. Gazing around the George Bush Intercontinental Airport, I longed to set foot in El Salvador, my beloved home country again. I desperately yearn to grasp a ticket that satisfied me a spot on the following flight. As a foreigner in the United…

one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people” (Theodore Roosevelt; 1919). A strong example is Spanglish, the mixed language between English and Spanish. Spanglish speakers are not fluent in Spanish and nor do they speak English with ease. As a result, those…

Language barrier is another reason to considerable for the immigrants. Additional, the language barrier is a common reason and challenge for immigrant, but it also could affect a lot to individual's development in the new country. They might have to face prejudice in different way within the community where they live in. Many immigrants are a source of cheap labor because they don’t have the ability to speak a new language. Beside, others face bully and abuse in their community, especially…

overcome a series of academic, social and political barriers. Barriers that have not discourage me from achieving my dreams but instead have only amplified my aspirations. To become successful in the United States, one has to be able to speak English as easily as one breathes air. For me, coming from a foreign country, learning this new language was not an easy task. When I first came to the US, I was the lowest ranked student in my class. My teachers struggled to help me because few of them…

saying. If that was you, most likely you would feel uncomfortable and out of the ordinary. Throughout immigrants lives, some of them need to make big decisions such as moving to America. Both men, women, and children need to learn new ways of speaking english, trying to fit in, and becoming comfortable talking to other people. Immigrants don’t always feel the “happy and perfect” America they were thinking about when they moved here. They…

As a kid I grew up around Spanish and English, being bilingual has helped a lot I life in communicating with family, friends and even strangers because being Hispanic most don’t know English or don’t like to speak English. English had become my first language then Spanish because of school. I grew up speaking Spanish at home but it was not fluent at first it was more English with a few Spanish words here and there, today that would be considered Spanglish but it wasn’t even that. When it came to…

personality. As some authors mentions in their literary pieces which shows that the character is in search of their true identity. In the following literary work “Blue Winds Dancing” by Thomas Whitecloud, “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, and “The Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes in which the characters have struggled in order to find their identity. In “Blue Winds Dancing”, the narrator who moved from Wisconsin to California for his studies is coming back home for Christmas. As the…

feel distant from people. I can see where Hoffman would be confused trying to learn a “cold” English language, because eve with years of experience writing and speaking the language, I still don’t understand some of the rules of English. In some places of the passage, Hoffman states that she misses how in Polish, she could call people names and it would be taken lightly and forgotten, whereas in English people would be offended if someone called them an idiot. I sometimes get the same feeling…

My parents met and married in Mexico City, and a few years later they had me. When I had just turned one, my parents packed up our family, and we traveled thousands of miles to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then five years after we moved, I became a big sister of twin boys. My family is a mixture of Mexican and American citizens, but we believe in the importance in taking pride of our native culture. My parents made sure that my brothers and I knew Spanish, but they not only made sure we could speak it but…

He is originally from Honduras, and lives in the United States for the past four months. Him and his family are living illegally in the U.S., but that does not impede an illegal immigrant child from attending school in the U.S. Juan cannot speak English to communicate, this lack of communication creates tensions between him and his peers in school. His peers are taking his silence and lack of communication wrong, and they began to bully Juan. Juan went to his school counselor, this learner, to…