grew up and both the Americans and the Mexicans had become more accepting of cultural differences. 3. Selena ’s Spanish is seen as a potential problem for her in Mexico by her father. Has anyone else ever felt their Spanish was being judged‚ by anyone anywhere? Why do you think Selena was able to overcome this problem in Mexico? Why was she so popular? Different areas that speak Spanish have different dialects. Some of these areas do consider people from other areas to be outsiders. An example
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was also used to tell people how she looked if she was still fashionable and looked beautiful. They used portraits because they had no other use; there was no email‚ television‚ telephone or newspapers. In this portrait of Queen Elizabeth it shows Spanish armada in the right hand corner and the English in top left. Her hand is placed on the globe and the crown is on her right. She wearing necklaces of pearls and has a peacock feather on the top of her head. She is showing her hair in plain view. She
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multilingual and multicultural that makes us stand out. This is what makes us feel in family‚ that even though we don’t all come from the same country we share a beautiful language‚ we share the music‚ the art‚ and the food. Keeping the mother language‚ Spanish‚ in the United States has been one of the difficult tasks to do because all around in
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was also helping protestants in the Netherlands‚ (which Spain ruled) to revolt against the catholic Spanish. As well as helping the Portrageas gain their independence from Spain. Phillip also had the support of the Pope who encouraged him to invade England. Elizabeth had been excommunicated from the church so the pope thought she ought to be removed. During the 1560’s English ships began to loot Spanish fleets returning from America with gold. Phillip blamed Elizabeth for backing such raids and taking
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Spanish Yo sólo soy una niña‚ tratando de encontrar un lugar en el mundo ... i’m just a girl‚ trying to find a place in the world... French Sease le monde Cease the world Spanish Estoy bastante‚ pero yo no soy hermosa‚ Yo peco‚ pero yo no soy el diablo‚ soy bueno‚ pero yo no soy un ángulo. i’m pretty‚ but i’m not beautiful‚ I sin but i’m not the devil‚ im good‚ but i’m not an angle. Italian è come youre urlare‚ e nessuno può sentire. its like youre screaming‚ and nobody
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those who immigrate to America and don’t know English yet or are struggling to speak it especially in public. In Richard Rodriguez “aria memoir of a bilingual childhood” Richard struggles to maintain who he is dealing with cultural identity with his Spanish language the only way to communicate with his parents now having to give it up however in Anzadua’s “how to tame a wild tongue” unlike Rodriguez she is pressured to lose her heritage by society but instead makes her stronger with it. In Richards’s
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families that have lived within the United States for over 400 years‚ some not as long‚ and others have just recently emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico. The Spanish of Mexicans is influenced by the Spaniards who occupied Mexico and a heavy Latin influence as the policy of linguistics‚ a sort of lingua franca‚ was greatly influenced by the Spanish Crown who was often at odds with the Catholic Church in this regard‚ which also reveals quite a bit about the religious influences of Mexican-Americans‚ who
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Spain is a multicultural and multilingual country and the language known as “Spanish” in the general meaning is Castilian which is one of several Romance languages. The other languages spoken throughout Spain is Catalan in the North-east‚ Galician in the North-west‚ Basque‚ which is a non-Romace language spoken around te western French-Spainish border and historical languages of Aragon‚ Leon and Asturias. In the history‚ all these languages were spoken alongside the Arabic‚ Hebrew and Latin and in
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Chicano Spanish is considered by the purist and by most Lations deficient‚ a mutilation of Spanish. • A language which they can connect their identity to‚ one capable of communicating the realities and values true to themselves – a language with terms that are neither español ni ingles‚ but both. • Identify themselves as a distinct people • Languages we speak: o Standard English o Working class & slang English o Standard Spanish
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Mexican-American family. Her family primarily spoke Spanish‚ but while at school and in the community‚ they had to speak English‚ the accepted language of America (Anzaldua 530). Anzaldua did not want her native language to die‚ so she wrote “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” to express her feelings‚ and to show how code switching affected her everyday life. In the story‚ Anzaldua expressed that depending on who she was talking to‚ she would have to use a different type of Spanish depending on where the person was from
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