Spanish Civil War

day of my first Spanish class. I sat in a blue chair and class began, an experience that can best be described as a, “baptism by fire”; the teacher, Señora Gunderson, only spoke Spanish the entire 50 minutes. It was a whirlwind experience, and I could only understand random fragments like “bien,” “azul,” and “hola,” and despite being overwhelmed, I was hooked. That day marked the first step down a path that would change my life. Over four years of high school, my gusto for the Spanish language…

In this Action Research paper, I am going to discuss the demographics and break down of my classroom library, and the possible deficits it presents to the students who populate it. This is significant because the more a child is exposed to a rich and dynamic library of books the better he or she has to be fluent in both reading and writing (Tompkins, 2015). It is also essential to to remember that a lack of culturally variegated texts may have an negative impact on children. I will first…

Guatemalan mother’s leg, telling me “Todo ba estar bien mijio.” translated in English as “son, everything will be fine.” Only I knew understood my mother 's words since she spoke in Guatemalan Spanish instead of the common Mexican Spanish. Mexican and Guatemalan Spanish ultimately are very much similar because it is spanish except some conversational phrases and terminology are different. This difference is due to the history of the two cultures which some are unaware of; Guatemala denotes…

Juan stated that Spanish is the other language spoken at home. However, having a second language can cause some tension in the family, because the first generations who move to the United States do not speak English well, and the third generation, struggles with the Spanish language. They try to use the second language at home and at church, however, the second language causes tension in the family because the first generation has not learned English, and the third generation does not want to…

chapters, “Buscando América” and “Disabling Spanish.” The complexity…

better future for themselves and children. Because of my Hispanic roots, and my birth in the U.S., I am considered a Mexican-American. As a result of my equivalent exposure to two different cultures, I grew up being bilingual. My native language is Spanish, and I began to learn English when I was in Pre-K. As a young child, I did not know being bilingual would be of such importance. Nevertheless, now that I am young adult, I fully understand…

Latin America makes up some of the largest territories and populations around the world. Since it is composed of countries in which the Spanish, French, and Portuguese ruled during the Old World. In the New World, Latin America consists of countries such as the Caribbean, North, and South America. According to the professor 's syllabus course entitled “Introduction to Latin America in a World Context”, the students will learn about “The history, cultural make up, current events, and debates…

Culture is an important factor that my parents hold highly of and felt that my siblings and I should learn every aspect of it. Growing up, my siblings and I attended Vietnamese classes where we learned how to read and write Vietnamese. Vietnamese is not that hard to learn because the letters are similar to those in the English language, but the difficulties was in the accent marks on the words. A wrong pronunciation of the word meant another word. For example, the Vietnamese word for dad is ba,…

Immigrants Language In the essay “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan describes an important realization she had In 1989. Conducting a symposium in San Francisco where she discussed her well-known book “The Joy Luck Club.” This symposium was the first time that her mother was part of her audience. Not until then, Tan realizes that the academic English she is using to address the audience is different than the one she uses with her mother. Tan’s essay describes the exploration of languages and how it can…

language, it can be supremely difficult and can takes years of practice to become fluent. I know from personal experience that learning another language is very difficult as I have taken five years of language in school and still am not fluent in Spanish. It doesn’t mean that it can’t be done, as I have witnessed with my grandma, who comes from Italy. She grew up speaking Italian and thought it would probably be the only language she would ever need to know or speak. However, when her family…