SPN506 BLOG

I think that the idea of spanglish, the mixing of english and spanish language, is very interesting. It shows how the location in which you live in, and the culture you belong to, plays a very important role in the way you speak. A hispanic growing up in america, might practice spanish at home, but at school or with his friends use english. then he might mix the two languages together, probably not on purpose. In my communications class, we learned that this is called codeswitching, which is the alternating use of two languages. Growing up in san antonio, and having alot of hispanic friends, i have seen them mix spanish words in while talking to me, or mix english words in while talking to their family. I think it is so interesting that people do this because it shows that the people you talk to and where you are talking to people influences the way you talk. For many bilingual speakers in the united states, spanish has become a new type of slang. It reflects the type of person that many Hispanics in the United States are.