Do you know more than one language? If you do, have you ever found yourself starting a sentence in one language and ending it with another? As a young girl, I used to mix my languages. Naturally, I did this while learning the English language. I applied the rules of the Spanish language with the rules of the English language and ended up speaking both at the same time.
             I was born in Chicago, IL, where the Hispanic population is very large. Hispanic people do not really need to know English in order to make a living. I was attending a public school where bilingual classes were offered. Here, I spoke Spanish and did all my math, science, and social studies work in this language. English takes about 30 minutes of your eight-hour day. We learned how to say chair, table, and other common words.
             I clearly remember one day, I was playing with my cousin in my sister's room. There, my cousin started jumping up and down on my sister's bed and knocked down my sister's frame. The frame cracked and the glass broke. My whole family came running in and asked, "Who did this?" My cousin pointed directly at me and said, "She did it!" I desperately wanted to yell out she was a liar and tell my sister my cousin had broken the frame. Since I wanted to respond in the same language, I yelled "No! He did it!" with a distinguishable Mexican accent. Everyone laughed at me and mocked my accent. No one
             realized that this situation was the turning point of my life. I knew I had to learn English
             to prove to every one I was not dumb. I felt this shivering sensation run through my body,
             I was determined to learn this language.
             The following months I was put into English classes. I was in the second semester of my fifth grade year and I didn't feel prepared enough to start speaking English. Fortunately for me, I also needed to attend English as a Second Language, or ESL, pr
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