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Como aprendi ingles (Paperback)
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All over the world there are people struggling to master the quirks
and challenges of English. In today's America, many millions of
them are Latino--and in this eloquent collection, nearly 60 of the
best known contribute fascinating, revealing, often touching essays
on the very personal process each went through to achieve this
common end. Their successes are inspiring. Their pieces, engaging
and entertaining all, express the whole range of emotions that
learning any new language entails. Congressman Jose Serrano, for
example, describes learning English from Frank Sinatra records.
Cuban-American author Oscar Hijuelos picked it up as a sick little
boy in an American hospital bed. Many find it a daunting ordeal;
for others English came easily. But from TV personality Cristina
Saralegui to Hall of Fame baseball player Orlando Cepeda, every
last one remembers what it felt like to do battle with bizarre
idioms, irregular verbs, and all the other incomprehensible
intricacies that tangle the tongue. And of course, every new
English-speaker has a tale to tell: an immigrant yearning to
assimilate and achieve, or a political exile suddenly far from home
and alone, or a child who just wants to fit in. Their fears and
triumphs will resonate with everyone who has shared this
exasperating, exhilarating experience, whether last year or a
lifetime ago. This wonderful, eclectic, inviting collection speaks
to--and for--all of them, and goes directly to the heart of the
national debate on language and immigration.
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