Aria
By Richard Rodriguez.
I could not agree more with this text because what it says is true. I have realized that this happens very often with families that are learning a second language, because as the text mentions, the priority for parents is that their children learn the language. I have a connection with this because I have a very clear example of this, most of my cousins were born here in this country, so their parents spoke to them only in English so they would learn it better and not have problems when they had to communicate with other people. Now that they are adults, they have difficulty speaking Spanish and the only way they can communicate with their parents is in English.
A few days ago, in one of my classes, we were reading something about "having an accent" which is interesting because it mentions that having an accent is not a problem, since everyone has one. When we speak a language we learned or even our own language, another person who speaks our language will notice that we have an accent, depending on what region of our country we are from, if we are from the north and we go to a part of the south, the people who live there will notice that we have an accent. But most of the time, I have noticed that people avoid speaking a learned language for fear of their accent being too noticeable. I just wanted to mention this about the accent, since the text focuses on being a bilingual person.
Being bilingual is amazing, but it also takes time. Your brain has to change a lot, you have to think in another language, or if you do it in your own language, then you have to think again, but in the language you learned. But at the same time, it also makes you more creative because it will help to improve mental abilities, helping with problem solving and decisions. Of course I speak from my own experiences.
link to the article :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_IiVUh8-zacE9Nh_I4Q9Jmaj8_v9ATtR/view
https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2022/04/29/learning-language-changes-your-brain/
I liked how you mentioned that your brain has to change a lot when being bilingual. This makes so much sense! Your brain has to learn another whole language, and that is a lot of information to keep in your brain! I praise anyone who is bilingual for all of that hard work they put in, especially because languages change a lot (and the way we learn language).
ReplyDeleteLove the connections you make in this.
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