Linguistic Ethnography
Everything that I know from the magnificent and beautiful language of English, I owe it all to the biggest person I know and love, my mom. I was born in a traditional puerto rican family. Which meant that all my family only knew Spanish with the minimum abilities in the English language. To be precise only my mother and a few of my cousins were the ones that could defense them self in English. This all started when a big part of my family, from my mother side, went to live in the United States looking for a better place to live. For when they moved there, no one really knew Spanish , so they had to learn English to be able to communicate. That is when my family, from my mother side, comes more interested with the English language. Yet, not everyone was fascinated with the idea to learn a completely new language. A couple of years pass and my mother marries my dad, whose family does not really care of any other language except Spanish . That it is because, they did not have the need to speak English for they were all Spanish speakers. Three years later after my parents got married, I come along, being
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No more local television, no more songs in Spanish , nothing, everything was in English. I decided that I was not gonna make a fool again, and I worked as hard as I could, day and night, every time that I could I would try to perfectionate my English and in a year I had almost perfected it. It was not an easy road, for I was excluded from a lot of things, for my prefer to learn English. My family would give me weirds look and called me “ la gringa”, this term ,if you did not know, was to offend me, only for wanting to learn English. But I was proud of myself and my mom was proud of me too, I did not need anything more. That year seem like it would never end but my mom was always be my side and that made it