Second Spanish Republic

There have been a few educational challenges that I had to overcome. Considering the fact that I was not born in this country puts me at a disadvantage from someone who was born here. English was not my 1st language, Spanish was, growing up in the Dominican Republic most of my life until the age of seven. Learning English was a challenge that I overcame with hard work and repetitive studying of words that are now primitive to me. Another educational challenge was not having a parental…

first language you realize more. The more you know about English, the more aware you become of your native language. Why? That's because most of often you compare the differences between English and your native language. Any learner of English as a second language does that. It's natural to think about one's own language at the same time when we are using English. Everyday humans show their expressions of point of view to others in some form of language. It can be through speaking, writing or…

She is unable to speak the same Spanish as the rest of her family, and Yolanda is often mistaken for an American. Being mistaken for an American, when she is truly Dominican makes it harder for her to know whether she is American or Dominican. On her first night back in the Dominican Republic Yolanda was out driving late at night in search of guavas. The car got a flat tire, and a couple of Dominican men came up…

income” countries. Mexico is also known for having the largest proven silver reserves in the world, and for also having the tenth largest oil reserves. Mexico and United States are also trading partners. However, Mexico is also the country with the second highest degree of economic disparity between the rich and the poor. The expansion of investment activity has slowed down, including due to public spending adjustments. Unfortunately for Mexico the peso has lost its value over time. The peso…

of her life in the Dominican Republic, then assimilated into American culture. In the Dominican Republic she was a doctor of medicine, she practiced there for five years until she married her second husband, who was an American citizen. Mara had three children from a prior marriage, and when she was pregnant with her fourth child her and her husband, Tony, decided they wanted to give their children a better upbringing than may have been possible in the Dominican Republic. Since she wasn’t…

language of all of those who read it. In the case of the Spanish language, we have Cervantes, who's work is still used by "La Real Academia de la Lengua Espa��" (The Real Academy for the Spa㩳h Language) to set standards for our language. There are certain things that we use when we speak that are not grammatically correct, and even if they are extremely common and everyone uses them, they are not part of the standardized Spanish until they have been approved by "La Real…

people as of 2013. The total land area of Costa Rica is 19, 560 square miles and the total area is 19,730 square miles. The main spoken language of Costa Rica is Spanish and the second most spoke language is English due to all the visitors. A very big number of people in Costa Rica are bilingual. Costa Rica’s government is Democratic Republic. Costa Rica’s president is Luis Guillermo Solis. The history of Costa Rica began with four indigenous tribes greeting Christopher Columbus when he…

dance, and clothing , all subjugated by multifarious cultures. Truly a phenomenal country in every way. The nation of Chile is situated in western South America. It is a long nation that pretty much 50% of its fringe is coastline. I picked this Spanish-talking nation on the grounds that I thought it would be intriguing. The atmosphere is one condition that may fluctuate inside distinctive areas. The nation broadens a long separation from north to south. There is an absence of precipitation…

lived in fear for many years. In 1538 Spain entered Colombia. Before Spain’s entry, the land was populated mostly by isolated tropical-forest Indians. Simon Bolivar became the first president of The Republic of Greater Colombia, after a 14 year war that ended when Bolivar defeated the Spanish. A bloody war began in 1948 when a presidential hopeful Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was assassinated. This did not end until 1957. In 1958 the Conservative, and Liberal parties join together in an effort to…

they do different things because, that is the way that they are, and it does not make them disrespectful or bad people. Well, on the other hand I have learned that people from different cultures, speak with different accents. I am from Dominican Republic, and the way that l speak English sound different from Americans, Cambodians, Indians, etc. Example from the article Mother Tongue, “Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 5p…