Tag: lingua franca

• Spanish as a right: We do what we please with our bilingualism!

  I have been speaking to my daughters in Spanish since they were in womb. I have made zero accommodations for anyone in the way I choose to navigate our bilingual lives. I have had a range of experiences in which I was asked to simply speak English in public spaces to being asked when I […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  February 4, 2017

  Uncategorized

  accents, agency, bilingual, bilingualism, code-switching, identity, immigrant, language as a right, language policy, lingua franca, spanglish

• Speaking Spanish brings out the best in people…

  The older Sabrina gets the more Spanish I speak. The more she learns to interact, the more I use Spanish—-sounds normal, right? Well the scenarios I am about to describe in the paragraphs below are beyond normal. Let me preface the stories with, when Sabrina was first born I was having a hard time (for […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  December 9, 2011

  Bicultural Experiences, Bilingual Experiences, Language:Culture Expression & Identity, Second Language Acquisition, Spanglish vs. Code-Switching

  bilingual life, bilingualism, lingua franca, spanish