Ana Laura Alvarado Graduation Portfolio
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Personal Statement
The debate and constant fight of which language is more important is holding my tongue. One of my greatest fears was always growing up and loosing my primary language. I wanted to become someone important, I wanted to help people and that was all I knew about. I was curious as to what my future will be like, I imagined various things, but never imagined having to debate what language was going to be more important to me in my future. I predicted I was going to be very successful language in both languages, keeping the primary language I was taught as a child, and the second I was taught in school. Today I am one more of California State University of Monterrey Bay's students in the pathway to success as a Spanish major.
I was born in Salinas, California and I have lived in a small town named Castroville all my life. The majority of the people that live there are Hispanics. Both my parents are Mexican and they only understand one language, Spanish, which is my first language. I am the second smallest in a family of five, and the smallest girl out of the three. Growing up in Castroville where the majority of people speak Spanish could not of have been better. I loved the fact that I could easily talk to someone in Spanish and they answered me right back without any confusion in their face. I went to Elementary School in Castroville and classes were taught in Spanish as well. It was until third grade where the constant battle of languages was introduced to me, this was when they introduced bilingual classes, and then suddenly dropped them and made just all English classes.
At CSUMB I have learned that the fear of loosing and leaving a language behind does no longer exist. I have found the perfect solution to the battle of the languages. In my case, both are fundamentally important therefore, my game plan is to help other students become proficient or advanced, fingers-crossed. I will help them reach a level of English throughout my main language, Spanish. My game plan consists of not being in the States, but in a foreign country, or in the homeland of my parents. I want to introduce the beauty of another language and passionately teach it. I want to make it friendly, not like it was introduced to me, to be feared of the strangers language. I want to teach people that it is possible to learn another language without having to loose your own.
I was born in Salinas, California and I have lived in a small town named Castroville all my life. The majority of the people that live there are Hispanics. Both my parents are Mexican and they only understand one language, Spanish, which is my first language. I am the second smallest in a family of five, and the smallest girl out of the three. Growing up in Castroville where the majority of people speak Spanish could not of have been better. I loved the fact that I could easily talk to someone in Spanish and they answered me right back without any confusion in their face. I went to Elementary School in Castroville and classes were taught in Spanish as well. It was until third grade where the constant battle of languages was introduced to me, this was when they introduced bilingual classes, and then suddenly dropped them and made just all English classes.
At CSUMB I have learned that the fear of loosing and leaving a language behind does no longer exist. I have found the perfect solution to the battle of the languages. In my case, both are fundamentally important therefore, my game plan is to help other students become proficient or advanced, fingers-crossed. I will help them reach a level of English throughout my main language, Spanish. My game plan consists of not being in the States, but in a foreign country, or in the homeland of my parents. I want to introduce the beauty of another language and passionately teach it. I want to make it friendly, not like it was introduced to me, to be feared of the strangers language. I want to teach people that it is possible to learn another language without having to loose your own.