Entry 2: Interview With......
While conducting my interview with Jennifer, who is a native Spanish speaker, I realize there were a few things that I was not aware of. As a child, Jennifer faced a difficult time picking up the language. Around the second grade, she began to start learning the English language. Since her household only spoke English, Jennifer found it difficult to fully grasp the language since her family only spoke Spanish at home. Jennifer felt that if she had the opportunity to practice the language at home and at school, her educational journey would have went more smoothly. She also mentioned the severity of maintain her Spanish language meant the preserving of her heritage and ethnicity. According to Lourdes Ortega, “..Newcomers to their societies allegedly refuse to learn the language of the majority and persist in settling for rudimentary survival language skills only, even after decades of living in their new country.” (Ortega, 2011 Pg. 8). As J...