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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Jun 4 07:38:50 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. She always spoke to me in Italian even though I would speak back in English as a kid. In later years, after I had lived in Italy for many years, I started speaking in Italian to her since I had become fluent by then. She lived to 98 years old.My grandmother also lived to be 98! By her 80's, she began to speak "Dutchlish" to us, and after being around Dutch much of my life, we all understood. I can't speak Dutch, other than perhaps "getting by", but I can understand it perfectly, and can read it....although can't write it. Yes times were bad then. It was sink or swim. My grandparents (with my aunt who was still their dependant child) came under similiar circumstances. My grandfather died at only 67-69 and I hardly remember him. This is so similar to my family....my grandfather died at 62...way too young, so I never met him. You are right, the newer generations will never know how tough it was back then. |
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