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Posted by Easy on Thu Jun 4 01:21:20 2009, in response to Re: What's Sonia Sotomayor's racial background?, posted by SMAZ on Thu Jun 4 01:15:03 2009. My grandmother was already in her 50's when she came here. It's hard at that age to learn a new language. She understood it OK but could never really speak it properly. Her circle of friends were mostly other Italians or first-generation Americans who could speak Italian.I've seen articles that say that's exactly the same situation with many Hispanic immigrants. I remember when it came out that Santa Ana, CA had one of the highest percentages of Spanish speaking people in the US, that they found that most of the Spanish speaking people in Santa Ana understand English. Most can speak at least a little, but they are afraid of being laughed at because they mispronounce words. Plus people always tell them that they can't understand them so they get self-conscious and stop trying. |
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