"Spanglish"

Spanglish by Janice Castro, Dan Cook and Cristina Garcia from TIME (1988) states that Spanglish is a common linguistic currency wherever concentrations of Hispanic Americans are found in U.S.  Spanglish consists of one part Hispanicize English, one part Americanized Spanish and more than a little fractured syntax.  Spanglish sentences are mostly Spanish with a quick interruption of an English word or two.  There are a variety of forms of Spanglish spoken by different cultures from Southern California Anglos to Cuban Americans.

In this article, it is explained how Spanglish has become a popular language spoken in America.   In the English language some words simply don’t exist in Spanish or it’s just easier to say in English. Since more American students have signed up for Spanish speaking classes in the last ten years, Spanglish has begun to turn into a national slang.  English has collided more often with Spanish everywhere. With this advertisers have began to promote their product with attempts to use a little Spanish within their ads.  Miller Lite slogan told readers the beer was “Filling and less delicious.” Also a Braniff airline ad tried to tell Spanish speaking audiences they could settle back en (in) luxuriant cuero (leather) seats, but instead said they could fly without clothes (encuero). 

I realize that I also incorporate Spanish into my everyday language. Part of it being that I’m currently trying to learn to speak it fluently and the other part being that my friends speak to me in Spanish sometimes. I think that Spanglish is great thing to know here in America.  Spanish tends to mix with the native language in every country that it is spoken in.  There is a variety of the language.  The way people speak Spanish in Spain is different from the way they speak Spanish in Mexico and Cuba. Some speak Spanish from their throat and some speak it through their nose.  Spanglish is just one of the different ways a very interesting language is spoken so that Americans can comprehend and communicate along with Latinos.   Espero que hayen disfrutado mi blog.