Spanish Armada

Charlemagne once said, “To have another language is to have a second soul” (BrainyQuote). As a native Spanish speaker, I find this statement to be true since I think about objects different than an English native speaker would. For example, when thinking about objects Spanish speakers tend to associate objects with genders while English speakers do not. The topic of language and how people think has been studied by a few Linguists, Psychologists, and Neuroscientists. Research and studies have…

Stewart explained to me that she holds parent teacher conferences. To relate to her parents and communicate easily with them she holds her conferences with parents in Spanish. This way parents are comfortable speaking in their native language and can focus on their students’ development. “At parent conferences Latino parents, may show more interest in their children’s social and moral development than their academic achievement…

who also speak Spanish. The concept being researched in the study is language screening that is used for children that have not yet entered the kindergarten. With the increase in bilingual population, there is a need for an accurate screener that is appropriate for Spanish-English speakers and could detect possible language impairments (LI). Through the use of the Bilingual English Spanish Oral Screener (BESOS), researchers hope to properly screen school age children who are Spanish-English…

Many would associate the music of Spain with the traditional song and dance known as Flamenco. However, there are many other traditional songs and dances that are a key aspect of Spanish music. For instance, a Zarzuela, which is a Spanish traditional form of musical comedy which alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance. Originating from Madrid, was very popular roughly around the 17th and 20th centuries. There are zarzuelas…

Living Between Two Worlds Dayton Kwok Introduction As an American born Chinese, I’ve always had to switch between using English and Chinese. This is especially exacerbated since I lived in San Francisco, a city dominated by immigrants hailing from Southern China and Hong Kong. One moment I’m using English to talk to my friends, and the next moment I’m using Cantonese to talk to my family. My native language was English, but I also learned to speak Cantonese around the same time I learned to…

always left me feeling guilty for not embracing the other culture. Throughout the paper, I am going to use the term Hispanic to describe my Latin origin. Hispanic can be used interchangeably with Latino, but the meaning behind Hispanic focuses on a Spanish-speaking origin. My mother is a 2nd generation Mexican-American, and my father immigrated here when he was younger from Honduras. I grew up in a small town in Hollister, California and I grew up surrounded…

as though the U.S. needs to enforce the Spanish language into education, along with the English language. Allowing students to learn Spanish at a younger age will allow them to become proficient in both English and Spanish. In order to enforce bilingual education programs, certain reforms will have to take place. Innovative models such as dual language, bilingual immersion and developmental bilingual education could be enforced to help students learn Spanish. These programs are designed…

interview, to be something that Rodriguez openly oppose as he identified Bilingual education as “ ended” and “gone” (Torres 16). Similar implications occurs in the first chapter Arya when Rodriguez shares his childhood assimilation from a primary Spanish speaking child to an English speaking social citizen (Rodriguez). Language, Rodriguez reveals, is something that has had a fundamental structure in his life, hence his opposition to bilingualism. To emphasize,…

After failed attempts to trade with the Japanese during the mid nineteenth century, the United States gained a foothold in Asia by annexing the Philippines, which it had gained in the Treaty of Paris (1898) from Spain as a result of the Spanish defeat in the Spanish-American War. The people of the Philippines were excited, at first, about annexation because they wanted U.S liberation, protection, and freedom. The United States Government received push back from its own citizens for going to the…

around him. This illustrates the change from Spanish to English upon beginning school and assimilating to the culture around him. He experiences his first recollection of language when he attends a Catholic Elementary School in Sacramento, California. He is astounded at the realization of adopting the public language that is English, while having learned Spanish, he is becoming educated as a public person with a public language. “But then there was Spanish. Espanol: the language that seemed to…