Write An Essay About A Time When You Speak Spanish

My mom has always spoken Spanish around me. When I was younger she would almost exclusively speak it to me. At some point I stopped responding to her in Spanish and switched to English. I think I did this because many of my peers spoke English regularly so it became the norm for me. Despite my lack of practice, I've always been good at Spanish. This came in handy in high school when I took the Spanish classes there because I already knew the basics, but my Spanish still needed polishing. Even after 7 years of Spanish it still does. Nevertheless, I understand it well enough to function and I speak it well enough that I can get my point across. High school isn't where Spanish has helped me the most though, like most languages it's meant to be used to communicate. My mom's first language wasn't English, and because of this, it's sometimes difficult for her to understand things sometimes. Just a few weeks ago my mother and I went to see Spider-Man Homecoming and she had a difficult time understand what was happening so she kept asking me what they were

My dads' side of the family is Mexican and my moms are Peruvian. My grandparents on both sides would always speak Spanish to me. I actually used to stay with my grandparents on my dad's side because my mom usually worked graveyard. I was their only grandchild who actually spoke Spanish so they'd talk to me in Spanish fairly often. My aunt and cousin on my mom's side moved in with me and my family when I was about 12, and neither of them had English as their first language either. In fact, it was my cousin's third. At first, I had a hard time talking to him because we could really only use Spanish. As he was learning English I would help him, especially with his homework since he didn't know it as well as I did. Needless to say, Spanish has been essential for me in order to help and communicate easily with my