In the latest class we discuss two essays. Both of them were assign to be readed in our home so we can discussed later in class. The first one was call Mute in an English-Only World. The second one was call Spanglish: The making of a New American Language.
The first essay is about a korean family. There were a mom with two childrens. She had store and live in New York. The problem was that the mother did'nt speak english so well so she wait until her children who were six and seven years old, came from school so they went with her to buy some things to her store. One day they went to a new store to buy some oxtail, they enter to the place and stayed there for a long time and nobody notice them. One lady appoach to her and wave a ticket so then they wait pattiently again until a man call their number. She began to search for them but theres nowere to be found, then the man ask her and she get nervious so she say the koren word for oxtails, soggori. The men look at her strange and call the next one in line.
Those kind of sad stories are the ones that make me want to lear how to speak english.
The second one talk about a mexican who came to the United States, he explains how it all begins. He arrived in Manhattan in the mid-eighties. He stayed in an apartment in Broadway with three roommates. He encounter a lot of different languages in the streets. He said that near him was a store that sells newspaper in spanish like El Diario/La Prensa, Noticias del mundo, etc.. In those newspaper were written some things that seems hilarious to him like: "Conviertase en invesor del Citibank", "Para casos de divorcios y child support, llame a su advocate personal al (888) 745-1515.", and " Alerta! Carpinteros y window professionals. Deben de tener 10 años de experiencias y traer tools". Thats what we call Spanglish. So thats basically what this essays talks about.
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