My Life That Made Me Aware Of Language Essay

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Kailey Strothoff
Matheny

The Moment’s in My Life That Made Me Aware of Language

Other than learning to speak and write English when I was a baby through Kindergarten, there isn’t any particular one person or major event in my life that made me more aware of language, there are several. However, my interests in a different form of language started when I started learning Spanish in high school, over the course of 3 different teachers.
Each teacher came with their own accent and different teaching styles. My first teacher, her favorite way to teach us was through singing songs in Spanish. At first it was fun and cool because we didn’t have that many worksheets to do, but after a while it started to get boring because it would be the same songs over and over again. I felt like I wasn’t really learning that much about the language that I wanted to. So when it came time to pick our classes for my sophomore year I chose a different teacher.
I started my sophomore year; my new Spanish teacher was very strict and liked things done a certain way. Whenever we would have a new assignment she would always make us get in front of the whole class and try to get us to have an accent while talking in Spanish. The time I remember most is when she …show more content…

It showed me that you can learn a language in multiple ways, and it also showed me that it takes a while to learn something new and to become good at it. I work at Rue21, and learning Spanish has helped me to be able to communicate with customers who don’t speak English. I was able to say “hola bienvenido a Rue21 ¿cómo puedo ayudarle?” Which means hi welcome to Rue21 how may I help you? Or when they were leaving, I would say have a nice day. “que tengas un buen día”. It was hard at first because it was confusing learning what each word meant and how to pronounce it right and how to use it in a sentence. But I’m glad I was able to learn

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