Linguistics Autobiography
...all they spoke was Spanish, because that was all their parents would understand. The only time they would speak English would be at school or around there friends, maybe that is why they have an accent when they speak in English. This could be because their first language was Spanish, but throughout the later years they had to speak more and more English, like at a job or at the bank. As for ancestral languages there is only one, Spanish, seeing that I have mentioned this already. I have gone as far back as to my great-great-great grandparents and the only language I found was Spanish, and hardly any English. As I was growing up I noticed one of my childhood friends, Lorena, could speak both English and Spanish fluently, so she decided to start teaching me Spanish. It started out as just a few words here and there but lead into sentences, just as you learned in grade school English. I eventually learned enough Spanish to understand what others were saying, but I would sometimes hesitate to respond back in Spanish. Another thing I if they spoke really fast in Spanish I would get so lost, because everything just runs together. So by the time I was in 3rd grade I could speak Spanish as my second language. In spite of everything I would speak English around my family even though they would speak to me in Spanish. Nevertheless as the years past I didn’t feel the need to speak Spanish anymore, no not only until I took Spanish I and II in high school. Though by taking these classes I would have to speak Spanish it seemed that we would learn more about the conjugation of Spanish and how to write it, than to speak it properly. Everyone in the class though could speak it properly. After high school I worried ...