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Sanchez Monica
English 105
Professor Amanda Reyes

English and Spanish are the languages I speak! Bilingual is what I defined myself to be. After watching Jamila's Lyiscotts video I realized that not only did I speak two primary languages but in fact I speak other languages. Everyone has another language that they speak. For instance, when they are around their friends they talk different from when they are around their parents in oppose to being at a job. In her video she sounds very confident about being trilingual, she's passionate about it. There is a point where she even says she will not let anyone tell her how to speak nor what is the right way. Her video reminds me of Gloria Anzalduas story. In Gloria's story she's a Mexican girl being treated differently at school. Gloria's teacher makes it even harder for her to adapt in school. She was constantly criticized all the time and was called a traitor just because of the languages she spoke. Her teacher use to punish her when she spoke Spanish, even when she would say something in "Spanglish". No matter what, Gloria never let anyone change the way she talked she kept being who she wanted to be and not what others wanted.