Spanish Inquisition

later generations of children, English monolingualism becomes the prominent form. The study also looks at demographic trends, such as observing that although the third-generation children use more English in their lives, there are areas along the Spanish…

such as Spanish and English to create a new melting-pot language called Chicano. Chicano can be further categorized into regional dialects, which result in different types of Chicano due to the way English and Spanish are spoken in these areas. Further, Anzaldúa describes a system that attempts to assimilate Chicanos so they no longer have accents or speak their non-standardized Spanish. The system is made up of both American educational institutions and speakers of standard uncorrupted Spanish.…

Literacy in the Spanish language for me means that I have a strong understanding of the language and am able to comprehend what is being communicated to and around me. Thanks to Señor Jimenez, what I learned in my Spanish classes is something that I can take and practice for the rest of my life. The road to get there was not painless, but it was worth it. After four extensive years of pain and suffering day after day in Spanish class, I can proudly say that I am literate in the Spanish…

Latin American social movements have stimulated silenced divisions of the community including indigenous people, students, LGBT, the unemployed, undereducated and all those who have been excluded from the promised ideal globalized economy. The movements, which include non-violent protests; maintaining culture; and addressing the educational achievement gap have deployed a wide array of strategies and actions which have been outcome oriented. The movements have helped to synthesize old ways of…

Around second grade, our classes began getting separated into two categories: the students who mainly spoke spanish, and the students fluent in english along with bilinguals. Of course, I felt comfortable around people who spoke spanish, but as a child I would notice most of my friends who were in the “normal” classes would get small prizes which allowed me to have something to look forward to achieving. Not only that,…

us with colonial Latin America in 1820, the sketch is composed of a Spanish man who we are able to conclude is well off economically. He seems to be the head of the household, this is noticed by his leadership position in the sketch and is followed by what seem to be his daughters, wife, Indian servants, and African slaves. Although, many might argue that this is a sketch is…

A Hardworking Immigrant Before Ruth Day retired at the age of 75, she was a cashier at a food supermarket called Casey Jones for merely 25 years. Unlike most cashiers, Ruth was a short elderly woman with square-rimmed glasses, aging skin, and grey, curly hair. She knew how to make her workplace seem like a big family. Every customer who walked in the store knew Mrs. Ruth. Once they finished walking the aisles shopping, they instantly looked for register six, where she normally worked, to check…

When it comes to Latin American it was interesting to know that the time from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century was called the “land of opportunity” and that was from the many emigrants from Europe. With Argentina became one of the main countries of the many emigrants from Europe which was approximately 6 million people. This was contributed to the labor and the capital that began to flow into Argentina. Despite the great number of people flowing into Argentina there was tremendous…

other people in my area do not have: I am bilingual, but my first language is Tagalog, not Spanish. Most people believe that Tagalog is the same language as Spanish because they have a similar alphabet, but it is different in many ways. Some of our words are derived from the Spanish language, but most of the words either differ in context, spelling, and how/when it is said. For example, the word car in Spanish is “coche” while in Tagalog it is “kotse”. These words differ in spelling, but they…

to start studying it very hard and seriously. Betts wrote, “I studied Spanish for three hours every day by working through one of the textbooks I found at the library, writing every page in longhand, then doing the assignments and giving them to another inmate to grade. […]” (229). We can say that, studying and practicing another language like Spanish is all about a strategy that learning and practicing on how to speak Spanish takes time for him to develop and understand its target language in…