I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.
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What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.
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I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.
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Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it.
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The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?
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I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.
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