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About Elenita
January 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment
According to the family stories–I remember nothing–my immigrant parents dropped me off at preschool feeling optimistic but slightly nervous about my ability to cope with an English-only environment. They told me to soak up as many new words as possible, and follow the other kids’ lead.
Two weeks later, I came home singing a children’s song in Spanish. When my mom asked my teachers about it, they were as surprised as she. No, there was nothing on the curriculum involving Spanish, they said. So they poked around during they day and eventually realized that I’d picked it up playing with my best friend, Carmen, at recess.
Introducing Peter
January 31st, 2009 | No Comments
One more for the Chipanglish team! I’d like to introduce Peter, linguist, teacher, and brother extraordinaire. He had been content to prowl the comments until I reminded him that I invited him to co-blog when I was still setting up the site weeks ago.
Introducing Elenita
January 30th, 2009 | No Comments
I’m very happy to introduce Elenita, friend and polyglot extraordinaire, who has decided to join the bloggy fun instead of just prowling the comments. Though I bet there will still be prowling of the comments. 
American-born Taiwanese girl who married a Japanese guy. And who forgot about six years' of Spanish grammar and most of the vocab.
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Korean-American girl who blogs under a Spanish pseudonym because being culturally confusing is fun. Native speakers say that she has outstanding Spanish (which is a definite compliment) and outstanding German (which is most assuredly not).
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American-born, Taiwanese guy who took five semesters worth of German and ended up with a major in Linguistics.
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