My English Language

Purpose: To highlight the difficulties students have at school and at home when it comes down to learning a language which they aren’t acquainted to and the consequences of such, depending on their social background.

I was excited to learn a new language but initially Spanish was very difficult for me to grasp. After a certain point during my freshman year of high school, I could not keep up because I was struggling with the basics. This made it hard to focus on my other subjects. I reached a

It was challenging having to adapt a new place and at a new school going into my fifth-grade year. At this point, my teacher would assign chapters in a textbook to read, but I found some words to be difficult, so I would just skip over them. The teacher would have some students in the class read each paragraph in the textbook aloud. I realize the teacher would call on a girl named Chelsea a lot due to her being such a good reader. She knew every word in the textbook which I resented. Finally, it was my turn to read aloud, I felt that each word in every sentence was in some other language instead of English. As Malcolm X felt when he said, “but every book I picked up had few sentences which didn’t contain anywhere from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. When I just skipped those words, of course, I really ended up with little idea of what the book said.” For the next assigned chapter in the textbook for homework, I would try to measure up to Chelsea’s knowledge with words. While reading the new chapter, if I came across unusual words I would look it up in a dictionary and discover compatible words that made sense to me. Then, starting the paragraph over in the chapter assigned, I replaced the unusual words with familiar words I understood to help me get an understanding of what I was reading. Still, the dictionary opened my mind to other words that could

This was not surprising, nor was it an issue, since my parents both spoke Spanish at home. I recall my mother carrying around a Spanish-to-English dictionary religiously, pulling it out in grocery stores or doctor’s appointments to able to communicate with the strangers around her. The language barrier first became an issue at age four, when I was set to start preschool. I could not go in blindly, and so in the months leading up to the day my parents spent hours teaching me the little English they had acquired.

Why do you wish to become staff on the Zonix Network I feel that I would fit in the staff team with my skills and with what I can do. I am very good at SSing and very good at being just overall moderator, So I am very confident that I would fit in the staff team very well.

According to oncology nurse, Suzanne Robin in her article “Why Is It Easier for a Child to Learn a New Language Than an Adult,” “Young children are hard-wired to learn language in the first few years of life. When frequently exposed to two languages, they unconsciously acquire the second language naturally, applying the same skills they use to acquire their native language. Older children and adults have to learn the language consciously by studying it.” (2014, para. 2).

I cannot imagine growing up in another country. Growing up I only spoke Spanish at home with my parents and brothers. I remember the first day of school I came home crying because most of the student in my class spoke English including the teachers and I was very depressed and confused because I wanted to understand what everybody was talking about and wanted know how to speak the language everybody knew. Eventually as I started growing up and seeing my English speaking peers and teacher speak the language I started getting more and more comfortable with it. I still stumble when I come to words I don't understand but it’s a huge difference than when I started learning

Not being able to communicate with someone who is new to the family was extremely difficult, but when I heard my Uncle Gerardo speaking in Spanish I instantly knew I had to learn the language. From then on him and I exchanged small lessons on our primary languages with each other. We began with the basics- uno a diez (one to ten), and then moved onto more difficult topics. By the time I entered middle school I was beyond excited to finally be able to take a Spanish class. Halfway through the year I realized something extraordinary, I was passing the class with an impressive grade and could understand much more Spanish, but I also understood so much more about the culture. This is about the time that I became obsessed with learning how people in other cultures live- what do they eat, what do they wear, do they go to school, how many people are in the average family? And the questions did not stop there. I have fallen in love with places I have never even seen with my own two

learning a new language was hard because the creole language has multiple words where you can’t translate back to English but I worked hard I read the translation every night memorizing words reciting to my dad definitions, I also faced discrimination from my own people from bullies because of my accent. furthermore, come into seven grade but the summer before I start school I listened to music look up lyrics read the translating book but the hardest thing for me was comprehending what I was reading because it was a much higher

When I was four I only knew how to speak Spanish, nothing else. But like the way my awesome parents are, they wanted me to go to school. So I, at the age four had to learn to speak English within a year. Considering the fact that I was just in the middle of learning Spanish, it was pretty hard to shift gears. I could speak in Spanish you know, the basics or baby words like; Eat, bathroom, No!, why?, play, beans, rice, please, and thank you. (And yes, I did have manners.) When I would talk Spanish, I would say stuff like, “Quiero ir parke” “Want go park,” And my parents, they understood me because they were the ones who taught me. Then suddenly to me they started to speak gibberish or something. My dad doesn't speak great English but I could tell he wasn’t speaking Spanish either.

I arrived to The United States when I was eight years old. I quickly learned English and practiced my language skills with pupils at school. My mother on the other hand was adamant about mastering the English language. She had lived in Peru for forty years and insisted the only language she would ever need was Spanish. I thought it was peculiar because this was coming from the woman who had taught me at a young age that learning any kind of information or concept, no matter how miniscule; is better than staying ignorant on that particular subject.

Everyone has a different interpretation of the word, “invention”. However the word is simply defined as; a new device, method of process developed from study and experimentation. An invention is just a mental fabrication; it’s a falsehood (Dictionary.com 2013).1 Although in the essays, “Why I write” by Joan Didion, “Life in a new Language” by Eva Hoffman, and “Basmati Rice: An Essay about Words” by Audrey Thomas, each author has their own view on the English language, how they each began inventing their own writing styles, and also their reasons for why they chose to become writers. These are the three things that make their definitions of invention very particular and their own.

My family thought that if I just watched some of the cartoons in English that I would start to pick up the language. Unfortunately, that was certainly not the case and I fell behind my classmates. Reading and writing scores were low and my kindergarten teacher noticed. Apparently, she went over to our home and talked to my mother about my options. From that point on, she was taking time after school to teach me the language. She gave me books, videos and different activities that I could complete and I would then take tests with her. Brandt writes,

I remember when I was around the age of six, the school got confused and put me in an English instead of Spanish, kindergarten class. The confusion between my native tongue and English was too much bear. I was lucky to passed kindergarten, but the luck soon ended because I needed to repeat first grade. The confusion between the two languages made it hard for me to read, write, and speak. The school provided me with a speech teacher in order to repair my speech. Even though, I did manage to fully graduate from the speech program in fourth grade, I still have trouble pronouncing words. For example, I would say Challenge, shallenge and yellow, jello. Reading and writing was something I struggle with a lot, I practice with my speech teacher a lot, I ended up learning how to fully read in third grade and how to properly write in seventh grade. I still remember the first world I learn to read which was iguana.

The English Language has been spoken for many years, in this project I will talk about its origin and how it is divided in different periods you can how it has transformation has influenced the words we used today. Also about the founders or founders.