Aria
Aria was a somewhat odd essay. At first I couldn't determine if the purpose of his essay was to tell of his childhood difficulties or to tell of the changes made in public schools for bilingual children. I am still unsure of the sole purpose, but I have come to the conclusion that it is of both. Rodriguez starts off talking off his first days in a public school and how he knew little English. He explained his parent's situation in society- working class Mexican immigrants who knew less English than himself. He reflects on the days when he was learning English and how he had problems going to school and being in public and then returning home to something familiar. He describe the English accent as being hard and rough sounding compared to his language. I have heard that our English language sounds like we are barking at each other to foreigners, and some languages to u
He then tells how his family grew apart because the children began to learn English over Spanish to cope with school and the public. As of right now I can speak what you would call conversational French because I know some of it but not the whole language. I feel sorry for him because I know his mother most likely was sad to know that she couldn't communicate with her son. Today we have some Americans that can help the foreigners, but few Americans ever learn at least some of another language. s like French are smooth, and Russian is rough. I have come to the conclusion that we adapt to the way we are used to hearing things so that we do not realize how we sound. I believe in the future there will be two languages of America- Spanish and English. This started to make little conversation between parents and kids because the parents did not understand their children anymore, and the kids weren't learning their native tongue to understand their parents. I started taking French Lessons in the fourth grade and I continued until I graduated. Because I have learned French in some aspects, I have a greater appreciation for the Spanish language because it is of the same Latin origin and has some of the same root words. I believe his purpose in the end is that schools need to teach bilingual kids in their language so that they don't lose it, but at the same time teach the valuable English language. The school system broke that parent-child relationship. English is not an easy language to learn. Rodriguez illuminated the idea of how bilingual kids can lose their cultural heritage and language by going to school in American society, but he was glad that he learned English. I know that they had a rough time, but this is America.
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