I chose to talk with my mom for this assignment. My mom came to the United States from Mexico when she was 14 years old. She was sent to school, right then and there. She didn’t know any English and the students would pick on her. But she had mentors and friends help her, which she was glad about. Although she practiced and practiced, she says her English still isn’t perfect, there’s times where she struggles but asks me for help or if there is a word she overhears she asks me what it means and how would you use it in a sentence. For me, I learned Spanish at a very early age until I started going to school at age 4, is when I started talking more English and getting mixed up with both. Right now I would say yes I definitely have an accent when speaking Spanish, I know what I want to communicate with other Spanish speakers but it comes out not the way I want it and sometimes they don’t understand. Right now I speak both English and Spanish, well actually Spanglish. It’s easier for me to understand and something I have been doing since I was a little girl learning both languages.