Posts by Elenita
An Interesting Debate on English Education at NYTimes.com
March 11th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Just a quick heads up: it looks like the NY Times has begun hosting a debate on immigration, and is starting with how to teach young children English.
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Dreaming and Language
March 10th, 2009 | 4 Comments
It’s three o’clock in the morning–at least it is in my time zone–and I’m posting here at Chipanglish after a bad dream.
Actually, since we’re all about language here, that’s not very accurate. To be more precise, there was nothing bad about the dream per se. It’s more that I dreamt in German, and that is considerably disconcerting to me once I wake up.
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.
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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