Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Speaking Spanish

I am a native Spanish speaker, English teacher, writer and translator from Venezuela. I have 5 years of experience in the field of general/legal translations and about the same time as a creative writer.

Before I turned four years old, my mother and I moved to join my father in Berwyn, Illinois. My sister ended having to stay back a couple of months so that she could finish her school year. We arrived to a nice apartment in the suburbs, it was a complete scenery change than what I was use to. Everyone seemed to have giant yards, bright green grass, large fences, and freshly painted houses. Back in Fresnillo, we had our large home, but it was rare for houses to have such large yards, so close to the heart of the town. From the time of the move until my first year in kindergarten, I had a bit of time to adjust, watching cartoons in English, I am not quite sure how I picked it up but I did. At that time my mother only spoke Spanish, my father is bilingual, but he would speak to us in Spanish.

Today I gave John a warning during Spanish II class. I have called his attention many times for speaking out loud without raising his hand, or without being called upon. After the group project presentations, I began to give instructions on their Midterm Review packet, and John kept interrupting me. I told him to please raise his hand but he ignored my instructions. As they worked on their packet, I played Spanish Christmas music, and John spoke out loud again, saying “is that how you sound when you sing Ms. Molina?” I gave him a demerit as a warning, and advised him if he kept interrupting I would fill out and have him sign it. He remain silent doing his work for the rest of the class, but before leaving the class he tossed the demerit on

Nieves and Ms. Sanchez, and even television shows. While my family members taught me my primary language, Spanish, my teachers slowly taught me the English Language. The credit doesn't only go to them since video games as well as television shows also taught me a majority of both languages."

We also believe that as our society assumes an increasingly global focus, becoming proficient in at least one foreign language is important. To attain as many foreign language skills as possible during her high school years, Kaitlyn studied Spanish concurrently for four years at Aim Academy and augmented her Spanish courses with independent study, using a variety of print and online resources. In addition to her high school Spanish language studies, she has also demonstrated great personal initiative by engaging in further independent study of other foreign

Every year, a few days before Christmas break, my Spanish teacher hosts a Christmas party for all of the faculty. The students in his Spanish four class are responsible for preparing Hispanic influenced cuisine. However, the whole fiesta is coordinated by those brave enough to venture into AP Spanish. Although I’m in the level four course, my teacher assigned me as the chief organizer and décor extraordinaire. We only had four weeks to pull everything together so time was of the essence. By infusing a lot of positive energy and publicity about the occasion, we managed to spread the news and excitement among the faculty. Despite a few challenges with communication and organization, we managed to pull it off with great success. The teachers

My mother only spoke spanish, but I learned to speak it by observing and listening to her, as well as my father. She told me she read me books, numbers and the vowels in spanish, yet I don’t remember when that occurred. What I do remember is running excitedly to the sofa, waiting for “Dora the Explorer” to get on. Watching and guessing Dora’s questions was a fun adventure for me, plus

However, after seeing the missionary family, I realized that I had a long way ahead of me if I wanted to become a fluent Spanish speaker. When I started taking Spanish in 8th grade, I thought of it as an easy class and only studied what I needed for the test. I realized I needed to put more effort into studying Spanish and to change my habits and attitude towards studying. Going on the mission trip was a wake-up call that helped me realize what was important to me. After arriving home from the trip, I started making Spanish a priority, using the missionary couple as inspiration. Through their example, I became the more productive and eager to learn person I am

It is definitely beneficial for me to to be in Spanish 3. I am in Spanish 3 because I love to travel and I plan on going to Mexico as well as other Spanish speaking countries. When I go to Mexico or somewhere else in South America, I want to speak what the native people speak. If I go somewhere and don't speak the language, then I am less likely to be treated well and to be shown the culture like a native. Spanish will also serve me in the future. If I am a doctor and a Spanish speaking person comes into the hospital...I can easily help them. On any kind of job application that the job requires human interaction, being able to speak Spanish is an asset that a employer would want. This would get the company more clients, work, and money overall.

It is a very complex world to live in without language. One’s ideas, thoughts, and emotions can all be present, however, unable to be expressed. This is the world I imagined for my grandfather when he first immigrated to the United States with my grandmother and their four children. He raised his own children to know Spanish in hopes that his future grandchildren would also be involved in their Dominican ancestry. Although, when I am speaking the same words and sentences that my mother, father, sister and cousins do, they come out misarranged and sloppy. This was because I never truly learned how to speak Spanish.

The two subjects I have had trouble with in school have been Spanish and English. It comes to a surprise to many people that I struggle in Spanish given the fact that I'm Hispanic. But people don't realize how difficult it is to learn two languages at once. During my freshman year in high school when I first started taking Spanish my grammar was really bad.. One factor that contributed to my difficulty in Spanish was the fact that I never had to write in Spanish until I got to high school . I could speak Spanish efficiently because I was raised in a Spanish speaking family. But I never knew how to spell most words because I never had to spell them. So when I took Spanish I made many errors like not putting an accent in the right place, or misspelling

When I first read the description of this I was thinking in my head that this could actually be an awesome movie. I start to watch it and then at the beginning of the movie it starts off with this bloody car crash and I had no idea what was happening. Then I was thinking this might not be as good I thought it would be. The more I watched, the more confused I became. I knew that the Spanish speaking-world was different than the life I live now, but I didn’t think it was that drastically different. The scene that surprised me the most and still is vividly in my head is when the dogs fight and one of the dogs end up being dead. As I’m watching I’m wondering if that happens in their daily life or if this is just something they made up to put in

What time are you most often on? (your time): I am normally on 2-6 hours between 3pm to 11pm, but on weekends it can be any time of the day. I don 't have a busy schedule on school days, just school. I also rarely go on vacation so I 'll be on a lot! I am very active which is just who I am because when I contribute to something I always follow through with it no matter what. I do sometimes have homework, but it normally doesn 't take too long because of my teachers.

As I began school in pre-school I was taught that reading, writing and language would forever be a useful skill. Being a Spanish speaker I was lucky enough to live in small community where the majority of my class where all Spanish speaking. I remember my preschool teacher sending my home with small Spanish books to read with our parents that was our homework for the day. After that we would test on how fluent we read both the English and the Spanish version.

I strongly protested against this decision stating that I guide her because I lack the gift to make people feel comfortable while talking to me instead of feeling awkward. My teacher quoted this very quote and told me that I need to believe that I have the gift to communicate so I can talk to people and she then told me to sit down and stop wasting class time. The first days were awkward as I had expected but slowly we reached a point where we trusted each other and could talk easily which resulted in my fifth brand new friendship. This incident boosted my confidence and in fourth grade I ran for class leader and won the very classmates I used to resent backing me. I am still an introverted person who can't talk much without knowing the person well and I still can't communicate my problems to teachers and adults in my family without the familiarity of knowing each other well but I can hold a polite conversation without stuttering anymore and strike a conversation to ease the tension. This quote changed how I behave and made me believe in my non-existent gift. Now I have several non-existent gifts that made me survive middle school and now I