It’s Not Fair To Shame People For Not Speaking Spanish

There is a particular shame associated with being a Latino in the United States: you may not speak Spanish, and if you do, you will never speak it well enough. I […]

This is one of those ideas that I wish I would have thought of myself. It’s also an idea who’s time was inevitably coming. A New York Times opinion column, […]

Most of my friends were always amazed by the way I acted around my mother. I never drank around her and nor did she ever see me drunk.  I never […]

Current presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich seems to think that Spanish and bilingual education are the characteristics of people living in “the ghetto,” at least he did, who knows how he […]

The New York Times wrote a story this week highlighting immigrants who have become millionaires, despite not speaking English. In the context of the report, these entrepreneurs have been successful […]

Yesterday I wrote a story about the Spanglish word “troca” and how I love it and how I don’t care if it’s not proper Spanish, I will never let it […]

So the truth is, most of the Latinos I know who grew up in the U.S. speak English as their dominant language, either because their parents or grandparents spoke Spanish, […]

This video just plain made my day. You have to watch it all the way through. While we’ve written before about reasons people prefer not to pronounce things in Spanish, […]

A great story from The Los Angeles Times this week breaks down the complexity of the Mexican immigrant-powered accent particular to people who grew up near or in the East […]

Last week I posted on Facebook that, sometimes, people are frustrated by my Spanglish speaking ways. But, that’s the way I think — so ni modo. I got some interesting […]