Thursday, September 15, 2011

Mona the multi-speaker

In the interview, I got the opportunity to ask Mona different questions about her language. Mona was originally from Egypt. Growing up, her common language spolek in her family was Egyptian. When her family and her moved to the states, her father picked up English with his Egyptian. As for her mother, she was more fluent in Spanish and Egyptian. Over time her mother picked up English just by daily living. Mona continued to grow up speaking English because it is the standard language in America, but she could always communicate to her parents in Egyptian whenever she wanted to. As for her parents, they too speak English in the workplace, but when they were back in Egypt, finish later......

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