In Ana Lucia Gonalez's "Hispanics in the US: A new generation" there is a a very evident presence of spanglish. Most people who speak spanglish are fluent in English and Spanish. Most people tend to speak Spanish at their home with their family while speaking english with their friends and while at school. Both languages are both very important in their lives that they switch between the two languages making spanglish. In one of my pervious blogs I wrote about how authors wrote poems in spanglish having similar lives as these kids speaking Spanish now. Both languages are important to them so they would go back and for in speaking them. An example of real life spanglish is when a 15 year old said, "Por ejemplo, I'm talking with my friends and sometimes Spanish gets mixed in with the English and you're like, hey, como estas, I saw you the other day…". He just switches back and forth between both languages flawlessly. Spanglish is becoming more prominent because more and more people are bilingual in Spanish and English. Now there are more people in the world who's first language is spanish and the second most common first language is English.
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Erica FischerWriting about things happening in English 101 at Emory University. Archives
April 2015
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