When I was five years of age, I demonstrated to myself industry standards to scrutinize and write in Spanish. Regardless of the way that I live in a Hispanic family I did not ponder concerning how to scrutinize and write in Spanish. My mother's side of the family is from Puerto Rico, and my father’s side of the family is from Ecuador. I was continually tended to in Spanish by my family except for my mother, sister, and companions. As English is my essential dialect, I never made sense of how to peruse or write in Spanish. Now I demonstrated to myself industry standards to. It was the day I demonstrated to myself generally accepted methods to unravel Spanish composed work. Bored, my mother texted my aunt. While they were talking, I inquisitively
Castro, Ph.D, the author of this article, has effectively used and appeal to the readers emotions, a mass of reasoning and logic using statistics, data, and and personal experiences to get his point across. He conveyed the message that Spanish is threatened in the United States due to many reasons. Even as a non-native Spanish speaker I can see the value of keeping your ancestral language alive. I can’t imagine losing English, my native language in the future or how it would affect my culture and heritage. In the future I can see this author being successful as they know how to write based on their audience.
Growing up Mexican-American in the United States can be a challenge itself. Throw in the task, of learning two languages, it made for a very confused little girl. There was often times growing up when I wondered why no one, but my family spoke Spanish. Why everyone at school and all my friends spoke this different language. Sometimes it even seemed like I was two different people.
Bilingual speakers need to share their experiences and help prevent these situations from increasing and impacting children as old as our elders. Espada states, "Defending the right of all Latinos to use the tongue of their history and identity creates in me a passion for Spanish itself" (Espada 4). Furthermore, each bilingual speaker has the right to use their voice to defend their native language, and each language in the world has its
For bilinguals, education normally starts off as a challenging time when little English is spoken in their home. Rodriguez, a first generation Mexican American, had a limited exposure to English because Spanish was entirely spoken together with his family. Therefore, he considered it to be his private language because he felt most comfortable and confident using it. Due to Richard’s insufficient practice with English, he suffered developing and speaking with others outside of his household. As a result, Rodriguez’s parents took awareness and encouraged him to speak in English at home.
In Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood, Richard Rodriguez makes the claim that “[i]t is not possible for a child—any child—ever to use his family’s language in school. Not to understand this is to misunderstand the public uses of schooling and to trivialize the nature of intimate life – a family’s ‘language.’” Rodriguez enforces this idea through extensive use of vignettes as well as the structure of his essay, recalling his childhood and his reluctance to learn public language. Going into depth, he explains how his fear of the public society—rather his belief that he could not be a part of it—caused the young author to be weary of leaving his intimate family setting.
As a Cuban-born woman, my expected role in society is clearly defined; my thoughts and personality have a mold into which they must fit. However, a month before my fifth birthday my family made the decision to move to the United States and in doing so liberated me from these expectations and gave me the freedom to explore my own interests and beliefs. Ten years later, they were making preparations for my Quinciañera. Due to my Cuban heritage, my coming of age was set to be commemorated by a very long and very expensive night of food, dance, and family. For the same cost as the down payment on a relatively small house, I would be given the opportunity to put on a show in a dress that restricted my airways and provide food and drink for about
Taking different English and writing classes has allowed me to write different types of papers. One paper that can be very challenging is the personal narrative. There are certain requirements that you must follow; each paper is different depending on who assigns it. When I am assigned to write this type of paper, usually it is dreadful to start and accomplish. This type of paper should just be removed from college writing courses.
Roberts, Edgar V, and Robert Zweig. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Pearson Education, 2015. Print. "Sorry, I Don't Speak Spanish: Hispanics Deal with the Loss of Spanish Fluency."
Being bilingual can be both useful or irritating, having the ability to communicate and understand several languages or being raised to be an interpreter for your parents. As you become more exposed to a variety of languages you can often observe how society treats certain languages. Martin Espada is a lawyer and poet who defends Spanish speakers in America, makes it clear about the role of language in his essay, “The New Bathroom Policy at English High School.” He asserts that the importance of language is created from cultural identity. When Espada shared what he learned about maintaining and defending Spanish he proceeded to say, “Defending the right of all Latinos to use the tongue of their history and identity creates in me passion for Spanish itself.”
I have a crush for Mexican ’s I spent my last three years of high school and it was amazing, there is a lot to see and to do in Mexico, I actually improved a lot my Spanish because it’s the main language. And I have created the best friendships and I graduated with my best friends
Rodriguez’s English was not the best, and because of that he would either be silent or quietly mumble when asked to participate by one of the nuns (73). Since his lack of participation was noticeable and showed little progress, some of his teachers visited Rodriguez’s home to ask his parents to “encourage your children to practice their English when they are home?” (73). Rodriguez one day walks in on his parents speaking Spanish, but when they see him they switch to English, which offends and over the days that follows angers him enough to decide to seriously learn English. Rodriguez even willingly decides to participate in class (74).
Building on the sound system of Spanish: Insights from the alphabetic spellings of English- language learners by Lori A. Helman examines how the sound system of Spanish may influence the pronunciations and, in turn, the beginning writing behaviors of English language learners who come from different backgrounds. It talks about the ways that Spanish speakers may have difficult time with certain ways of writing and reading the English. Each part of the English language has it certain difference ways for Spanish speakers for example, when a word in English starts with a S but the Spanish speaker will write a e in the front since they would pronounce a E when trying to pronounce. One example of this is the word smile they Spanish speaker would
I stare down at the dark streets below my apartment, behind me, a mixer of family old photo albums, hand-written journals and Jonah’s case files lay scattered across the coffee table. Like our parents, Jonah had always preferred paper, when it came to keeping records, over our modern tech, funny considering how good he’d been with computers. I glance down at the knife clutched in my hand, the only piece of evidence, that had been recovered from the cargo ship, I’d bothered to bring home with me. The gun had belonged to a soldier on board the ship, who had been knocked unconscious from behind so it’s little use, in tracking down my brothers killer.
I had a very eventful summer with experiences I have never had before. I traveled all over the state, and to the bordering states all summer long. I spent my summer being involved in sports, spending time with my friends, and having quality family time. This summer I spent the majority of my time traveling to different sporting events.
I’m a follower of Jesus recovering from, well, a lot of things. Let me tell you about my family. My siblings and I were raised to not disappoint anyone. However, being the middle child, oh we need to stop the middle child = black sheep because the middle children tend to settle into that expectation since it is what people think of us anyway.