My mother is Bolivian, and speaks fluent Spanish, while my father is white and does not know how to speak Spanish. In my household we spoke English, yet when ever any of my mother’s relatives came over, my mother spoke to them in Spanish. Although in high school I took four years of Spanish, I never really picked up my mother’s language. To this day, that is the only thing I regret not learning when I was little. Not knowing how to speak Spanish has created a language barrier between me and certain members of my family.
I believe that the way we talk, write, think, and read have a relationship to who we are. Each language is made up of words that are associated with certain connotations and history. Although it can be argued that languages are just words, each language is shaped and changed by the people that speak the language. Much of a person’s personality can be reveal by the walk they talk and present themselves, and language is the tool that allows people to do that.
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