Bilingual Essay What does bilingual means? A bilingual is involving or using of two different languages. Nowadays‚ most people are actually bilingual. The most used and common language is English which is the universal language. The majority off the world’s population can speak and understand English language. Being able to understand and speak two different languages is a talent. It is an extra factor to one’s personality‚ and it could also help one to build-up one’s self-esteem and confidence
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people who hear me speak Spanish (my mother tongue is English) that I am fluent in it. That alone should be enough for me to call myself bilingual. However‚ I have encountered numerous situations over the years where I felt completely lost in Spanish. So‚ if I am so fluent‚ why would this happen to me? The answer is a simple but often overlooked one. Bilinguals usually acquire and use their second ( or third or fourth) language for specific purposes and when they get outside of this specific linguistic
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answer? Doing so can create a sense of loss. In the essay “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”‚ Richard Rodriguez shares his personal experience with learning English as a second language. In his linguistic journey‚ the author feels a disconnect between Spanish‚ the language used at home by his Mexican immigrant parents‚ and English‚ the language used in the public world. He raises an important question
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Rodriguez characterizes Mexico as a country with a culture of tragedy and America as a country with a culture of comedy. However‚ America is comedic in the Greek sense-in the sense that America is not comedic at all. Rodriguez feels that Mexico‚ in being the place of tragedy‚ is better off. America‚ on the other hand‚ has to face the burden of optimism‚ and the subsequent let-downs. Thus‚ in a sense‚ he characterizes them in ways that oppose what he truly thinks of them. Mexico is described as
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University‚ published a preface called “Bilingual lives‚ bilingual experience” in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development‚ in which she claims that a bilingual faces some problems in expressing and distinguishing between emotions on both languages. She gives the example of her Polish-English background and supports that often people who are bilingual make confusions regarding the cultural and deeper meaning of emotions. However‚ I argue that a bilingual learns to perceive the world in a
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Desire”‚ Richard Rodriguez headed towards a path where he was unconsciously distancing himself from his family and becoming much more independent than he had expected. Rodriguez gives the reader a sentimental idea of the two contrary lives he had growing up‚ the life he had as a child‚ and the life he has as an educated man. He continued believing in his aspiration of how benefits of education can remarkably outweigh the past struggles of both his family and himself. Like Rodriguez‚ I also‚ in the
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1. The first day and the first love Putting on the yellow jersey‚ the black shorts that were too long and the matching canary yellow socks with my new cleats. The shinguards I have just bought were sitting in my bag waiting to be put on til we arrived at the fields. My mom called for me to get in the car‚ and make sure to grab my water bottle. I flew from the kitchen table‚ out the door to the garage and into the car. My mom entered the car shortly after and we began our descent to the Noblesville
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Origins of a Memoir/ Autobiography I’ve read a lot of memoirs‚ autobiographies‚ personal essays‚ collected letters‚ and autobiographical novels in my life‚ but this is the first time I’ve studied the memoir/ autobiographical form as a genre. An interesting fact I learned right away was that the word “memoir” comes down to us from the Latin “memoria‚” meaning memory or reminiscence‚ through the Anglo-French memorie in the mid-1500s‚ meaning “a note‚ memorandum‚ something written to be kept in
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Mariono Blanch Ms.Outlaw K12 11/27/12 Hi‚ I’m Mariono im 15 years old and during my 15 years of existence I’ve learned many things I’ve also experienced many things‚ but I also have surrounded my beliefs around things I was taught. The one major thing that I go by which I call a belief is expressing your feelings and not holding them in ask for help if you need it. I say this because I had to learn the hard way and hurting others while learning. My mom is a single parent she is also flight
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