âRead the words on the page for me in english and this one in spanish.â The walls were filled with spaced out words, cards of sounding out words on the table, worksheets with Spanish and English words. The teacher clapping out the sound of every word on the flash card making me repeat it. Everyday Iâll get pulled out of class for half an hour to say words. Going to speech at the age of 5 made me feel like I said something wrong every time I spoke. Luckily it only lasted a year. I grew up in a Hispanic household where my grandma only speaks Spanish to me and everyone else English. I caught on to English much quicker but my grandmother wanted me to know Spanish to be able to communicate with our family in DR. Some words I would confuse between the two languages and because of that Iâve always been a quiet person. Even though I was very young going to speech for that year helped a lot because I was able to not confuse myself with the two languages and managed to speak both.
As I grew up I stuck to English more since I would speak it at school and some at home. Unfortunately I ended up losing my Spanish but since I was older I didnât really pay much mind to it. I can still speak it but not fluently, I can only fully understand it and read it. Most people say that I speak Spanish just fine when they hear me speak it, but Iâve never liked speaking it outside of home because Iâm not as fluent as I would like to be and I donât want to mess up. In school not speaking it was not an issue at all, but around family I would be quiet because then theyâll start giving me lectures about how itâs important for me to learn it. Iâve learned how to manage it as I became older. I only speak it at home and mainly with my grandma. Most people ask , âwhat about when you go to DR, how do you manage?â I speak it over there but when I mess up I donât feel like a no sabo kid because Iâve improved my Spanish a lot and I now know itâs okay to mess up and not make it an insecurity.
Hi Ashley. I also experienced something like that when I was young. I also speak spanish and speak at home but I don’t like to communicate in spanish with my friends or my cousins b/c I don’t feel like I’m fluent in it very much. I feel like I did lose some of my spanish along the way since at school we are taught to speak the main language english. The people around me say that I speak my spanish well but I also make lots of mistakes while speaking it. I do understand it well. I also remember taking speech lessons when I was 5 b/c the teacher I had was very nice. She rewarded me after each lesson saying I did great.
I can relate to this so much because when i speak Kreyol in front of my parents family they usually make fun of it and say I canât speak it , but Iâve learned to to let that bother me. A language doesnât define my relationship with my culture.
I can relate to this so much because when i speak Kreyol in front of my parents family they usually make fun of it and say I canât speak it , but Iâve learned to to let that bother me. A language doesnât define my relationship with my culture.
You do a good job here of beginning to create a scene.
Going to speech at the age of five made me feel like I said something wrong every time I spoke. Everyday I was pulled out of my regular pre-K class to work with the speech teacher Ms. Walker.
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âRead the words on the page for me in english and this one in spanish,â said Ms. Walker.
The walls [of my ESL class] were filled with spaced out words, cards of sounding out words on the table, worksheets with Spanish and English words (GOOD DETAILS HERE!). I was five years old and DESCRIBE YOURSELF. The teacher [Ms. Walker clapped past tense] clapping out the sound of every word on the flash card making me repeat it (good description of teacher — now what was her name? Can you give me the words she said and how you repeated in not-so-perfect English? CAN You show us how you felt — ior the inner dialogue going through your five-year-old mind? — Remember how Santiago showed us her imperfect English — you can do that too.). Everyday Iâll get pulled out of class for half an hour to say words. Going to speech at the age of 5 made me feel like I said something wrong every time I spoke. (These two sentences are good — I would start with them at the top of this scene. THen give more details on this memory — good descrition and details and exact words spoken in a dialogue format.)