Late assignment of responce-how to tome a wild tongue

This article expresses a strong view on how the author feels her "español estadounidense" needs to be preserved in order to maintain cultural unity when used as a private form of communication. For any immigrant, adaptation to a new country is always an issue. Adaptation can take on many forms weather, culture, and for many, language. For an immigrant whose native language is not English, they are considered to be outsiders. Many Americans are of the opinion that if you want to live in the United States, then you need to be able to speak the language of the country. And while the author accepts this opinion in theory, she thinks that adapting to a new culture doesn't necessarily mean abandoning her own. In fact, Gloria Anzaluda, strongly believes that her Chicano language is a secret and living language. She calls it ‘secret' because only Chicano's can understand the dialect of what is being spoken and with that she associates a deep-seated sense of pride. She wants to be free to use her native tongue to create what she calls a "linguistic identity". No matter where she goes or how Americanized she may be inclined to become, the Chicano language is her way of maintaining the Chicano people alive.

Final Blog Assignment--My experience of Billingual

Actually, since I was in elementary school, I started to get touch with English. At that time, I do not what bilingual is and I also did not imagine that I would come to America. English is just a require course just like Mathematics or Science. As the time passes by, I realized that English is not only just a tool to broaden our horizon but also an advantage to make me competitive among students. In this way, I have tried my best to learn English well same with Chinese. When I can communicate with foreign people, I found that knowing more than 2 languages is quite convenient.
Then I came to America. I found that the English I use here and I learned is really different. What I learn is too formal, while America is a country that people favor free forever. In this way, quite a few habits of using English have to change. Moreover, even though it seems that I have learned English for years, the vocabulary and even pronounce are definitely not sufficient when comparing with native America people. Hence, it is hard to have bilingual skill that both of them are very good.
Even though it is hard, I understand the advantage of bilingual. First, it is a good way to learn foreign culture. Second, it will help us to more easily communicate with foreign friends, which will force us advance and development. Moreover, if I can have knowledge of more than 3 languages, I can walk through the world without blocking. Hence, I will catch any opportunities to study other languages such as Japanese or Spanish.

Final Assignment Short Reflection

In assignment 5, I chose the topic “Using WRA skill to analyze the current event”. Then I wrote an essay about a horrible disease in current days--swine flu. It adds insult to injury to people who have just suffered from serious diseases such as bird flu and financial crisis. This virus has spread through most of the world which let the world in danger. Fortunately, it has been controlled soon. Due to I am not a doctor or scientist, certainly I did not much focus the symptom or the treatments. I once heard a report by scientists that most of the strange diseases and horrible disasters in current days are cause by the bad environment. The bad environment is made by human being’s activities. Hence, in my essay, I put focus on the relationship between people’s live and nature world. I emphasized that human and animal are one family instead of enemies. Moreover, I made swine flu as an example to assert the importance of protecting environment.
It seems that I am out of my topic. However, everything is interconnected especially in our nature world. It is just that I broad the area of this topic instead of dreaming about “we want to fight the disease”.