Growing up in the Bay Area, I was exposed to many different languages and cultures. As a kid, I lived in a primarily Black and Mexican area. Due to this ,most of my neighborhood spoke English or Spanish. Even now, a significant portion of my friends and family speaks Spanish. When I was a baby my mother spoke Spanish to me in hopes that I would be trilingual by adulthood. It didn’t work.
More often than not, my childhood friends will mix in some Spanish with English when they’re speaking to me and occasionally to their parents. When I arrived to New York, I was surprised to see people who looked like me speaking Spanish. Imagine my shock going from Mexican Spanish to Dominican Spanish. The little Spanish I knew was almost useless.
On my journey back to understanding and speaking Spanish, I will be utilizing Duolingo and forced emersion by way of semi-immersion
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