Reflection #3 Spanglish

Spanglish is the fusion of two languages, Spanish and English. When people started immigrating from all over the world to the United States they brought their language and their traditions with them. This people from different countries with very different cultures and traditions started to interact with each other and they started mixing their language. This is how spanglish was formed.

Even though it is commonly used by the Hispanic-Americans in the United States with time it has been spreading through many Hispanics countries. For example, in Puerto Rico the official language is Spanish but there has been implemented the English language. But most people never completely learned English, but since almost everything here is in English they started adopting only some words, or the making up words from English.

In the essay Spanglish: the making of a new American language by the Mexican Ilan Stavans he narrates how spanglish came into his life, how was it to live in a community of Hispanics in the U.S. By the time he was there spanlish had already spread across the country and over the years he had grown an admiration to it. This is what brought him to write the essay itself in spanglish. Also this is one of the aspects of the essay that makes it unique.

It is very commonly said that spanglish is a langage used by the uneducated people, but, does this make Stavans an uneducated just because he used spanglish in his essay? If you look into his biography I wouldn’t say that. In fact I don’t think that because you use spanglish you are uneducated at all. For what I see this days people that use spanglish usually speak very well English and Spanish so they are educated and, since they are bilingual, have many more opportunities in life than many others.