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Posted by SMAZ on Tue Jun 2 03:27:57 2009, in response to Re: What's Sonia Sotomayor's racial background?, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jun 2 03:01:42 2009. Where did your family take classes?Actually I don't know. I need to ask my father. My mother never took the classes but she learned an accentless English from TV, neighbors and doing the "mom thing" (school, shopping, etc). That's the advantage of a diverse area like LIC/Astoria versus ethnic enclaves like Bensonhurst. My aunt who was a teenager when she came from Italy took ESL at LIC HS and then graduated with flying colors. She helped teach my parents and my brother. The nuns at St Pat's would slap the shit out of my brother if he uttered a word in Italian while in school. He never forgot that. He got an MBA and is a retired USAF colonel. My grandmother never learned it well and failed her citizenship test even though she was the most "American" of them all. She remembers when Italy was a third-world country and never took prosperity for granted. My parents came here because they liked America but were doing well in Italy anyway. |
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