Spanish

Literacy is the key to the door of opportunity. Being able to communicate with society and the community and just having the ability to talk to different people is a huge benefit. Being bilingual and literate in different languages gives one that much more of an advantage.

I spoke Spanish before I did English, and to this day I am still fluent. My eighth grade year I was the new girl at school, and being that I am fair skinned and have colored yes, my classmates did not expect me to know a lick of Spanish, much less understand it. Little did they know that as they were talking behind my back saying some not very nice things, I could understand everything they said and could probably even say it better. Weeks went by until one day I got fed up and answered my softball coach in Spanish. The look on their faces was priceless. That day was the last day I ever had that issue.

Since I now live in an area where English is spoken more than Spanish, in order for me not to forget my Spanish language, my mom makes it appoint that whenever I speak to her, that I speak in Spanish… that includes texting in Spanish.

Being literate in both Spanish and English has helped me so much. Since I do come from a predominantly Mexican area, it allowed me to hold my own and fit in. Now, being bilingual has opened so many doors in the business world. To this day I am so grateful that I was brought up the way I was. And being that we live in such a divers world, knowing a second language would never hurt.