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and learning the language opens doors to better opportunities. However, this idea is changing, as mayor of Miami Maurice Ferre announced that Spanish-speaking immigrants do not need to learn to speak English. “We’re talking about Spanish as a main form of communication, as an official language, not on the way to English.” With the population of the Spanish-speaking immigrant growing, the government makes it easy for them not to learn English by providing government funded interpreters and…

United States-born Hispanics/Latinos affect their education level; Why US-born Hispanic have a higher graduation rate than Hispanic immigrants? First, it’s important to understand who are Hispanics and/or Latinos. Hispanics are people of Spanish speaking and/or with Spanish origin. Hispanics was the term created by the Nixon government in 1960 to categories the large group of immigrants as “Hispanics.” Latinos are those who were born from Latin America countries; In other words, those that comes…

I took Spanish for three years. I never felt confident in the classroom and struggled a great amount. I in part blame this struggle on my teachers that should have assisted me in this process, while at the same time blame it on myself for not taking more of an interest. It was a wake up call for me because I never understood how ELL learners must feel learning the English language. By the third year of Spanish class, about tenth grade, my teacher kindly pulled…

I think that people who live in American should be learn to speak English because that is still one of the most spoken languages in the world and especially in the U.S. Conversely, since American does have so many Spanish speaking people, we should be able to converse also in Spanish in order to talk with them. I mean the Europeans are able to learn several different languages so I think we should be able to do the same as a common courtesy. I think it is wrong for Americans to…

how I talk. My heritage, where I am from and where I went to school are all apart of my literacy narrative. My hispanic heritage has affected the way I pronounce words. My family talked to me in spanish and english as a baby, when I started to attend school I only spoke english. I lost some on the spanish language but I still have trouble pronouncing certain words. I have trouble speaking because I get caught up in my words, sometimes…

The curiosity of many have wondered whether having siblings has an impact on an adolescents GPA. While having siblings has both a negative and positive impact on an adolescent GPA; the negative has a greater impact on younger siblings while the positive is mostly prominent in older siblings. Many have pondered whether same-sex siblings and mixed-sex siblings have the same impact or they differ. Which also comes in mind, whether gender or ethnicity plays a role in the impact on an adolescents GPA…

things were going to changed. I came to the United States without knowing how different my life was going to be and all the changes that were about to happen. When I came to the United States I did not know any word in English. My first language is Spanish, but I was coming to a country where English is the first language people speak. And I knew this, when I stepped into the airport in Dallas, Texas. I was with my brother and my grandfather…

Futbol in the Americas Description: In Latin America soccer is a game of passion. In the United States it goes by the name of soccer, but in Latin America it is known as futbol. Futbol is taken to heart and is far from just being a game. It is also a sport in which Latin Americans excels in. Massive numbers of Latin Americans people participate in soccer teams, tournaments, leagues, and clubs. Futbol is also singular feature of the Latina/o, Chicana/o popular culture. Latina/o 's across…

Others however seem to believe that by doing this they are doing native speakers a favor. In the essay “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan discusses her situation of letting society influence her thoughts of language. Myriam Marquez in “Why and When We Speak Spanish in Public,” discusses using her native language in public. In Deustcher “Does Your Language shape how you think,” it is about how language impacts the way a person’s mind thinks. In “The English-Only Movement: Can America Proscribe Language…

certainly very different to what is was like at the beginning of her trip when she was backpacking around New Zealand. Then, it was exciting and she was constantly meeting new people, learning English but also speaking Spanish a lot still as she would constantly meet other Spanish speaking travelers. There were new life experiences, exploration, adventures and freedom that comes with being somewhere new so far away from home. At the moment it is a “common” life. She goes to work every day and…