Spanglish is a Language Too! | Alondra Posada | TEDxYouth@UrsulineAcademy
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2018
- Is Spanglish considered a language? Will it become a language?
Spanglish is a unique language that represents the completeness of both English and Spanish. The transition flows from a combination to a continuation of the first language. In this multi-cultural talk, Alondra Posada enhances the art and traditions Spanglish has to offer and how hispanics have learned to embrace it as a language.
Alondra Posada is currently a junior at Ursuline Academy. Alondra participates in three sports, including varsity field hockey, soccer and track and field. Last year, she was Vice President of the Stage Design Committee for TEDxYouth@Wilmington. She currently volunteers at Faithful Friends Animal Shelter. This past summer she volunteered at Tyler’s Camp teaching children a new sport along with teamwork and perseverance. Alondra has been working hard for the past two years to help her mother start up and continue her food business, Veronica’s Kitchen Catering Company. Alondra hopes to further her education in learning Portuguese, Mandarin, and French fluently in college and major in physical therapy with a minor in Latin American Studies. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
The best way to appreciate Spanglish is to catch someone speaking it naturally without them feeling watched or judged.
I agree, but it is hard to achieve, Spanglish is OK amongst Chicanos but frown upon by native Spanish speakers. I only use Spanglish with my Chicanos bros. Otherwise, I try to speak the best Spanish possible with other Latinos.
@@carlosnaporodriguez1027 I grew up in Tijuana and whenever I hear someone mix and match languages in "spanglish" i CRINGE 🤣🤣speak to me in Spanish or English not the two at once lol
Beautiful reflection on your upbringing. Pero, as a teacher in the USA, I can say that what sets bilingual Americans back is the system and not growing up bilingual. The system wasn’t designed to served bilingual children.
I'm learning English by watching this video
NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Such an interesting talk. Another lens to look at Spanglish is the embodiment of heritage and American culture. Many 2nd gen Latino/a(x)s have one foot in their heritage and the other in American culture (you can call this heavily anglo influenced) and Spanglish may be the identity marker for some. I do agree with some of the comments below in the sense that Spanglish may be a crutch to those who are wanting to learn proper Spanish (I say this due to research I conducted in 1st gen college-going Latinos in the Deep South). However, one must recognize the difference in those who grew up with an environment supporting both languages VS. Latinos who grew up in a hegemonic, monolinguistic culture where they had to suppress their Spanish due to educational purposes or lack of environmental support. Spanglish is a great tool to bridge the two languages together, but it can be seen as a crutch if the individual does not attempt to obtain both languages (if that is their goal). Spanglish is a natural phenomenon though. Will it take away from the Spanish and English languages? No, but I can see how language purists could be annoyed by it. One thing we should remember is those who do not speak Spanish fluently should not be judged as I am sure they already feel lesser and there is the reason why they do not know the language (again, environment, lack of support, etc.) and if Spanglish is a way to help them connect with their heritage, then that's a great start. I love to hear your thoughts as I still am interested in hybrid identities and languages and want to continue the research for my thesis.
Hi, interesting comment but the reality of Spanish and English is that they’re part of European culture. Just because U.S “Latinos” cannot speak Spanish, does not mean we are losing our heritage. Our true languages are those that were lost like Nahuatl, the Mexica language. These Native American languages are our true heritage. Afro-Latinos usually have African languages AND native languages that they should know but were lost due to the colonization of the Spaniards or Portuguese. It’s sad but just wanted to point this out.
I am an English speaker in Southern California. I sprinkle Spanish words into my language for fun once in a while. Words like basura and food items. Also when I speak to people with some English skills. A Mexican lady I work with says: "pone" instead of put when she is speaking English. Where do you want me to "pone" this?
I speak Spanish as a second language.
Y que puto
Growing up in Los Angeles in the 90s we were speaking spanglish before we even knew it was a thing.
English is actually a combination of Anglo-Saxon a Germanic language and Old French. Due to the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The English language grew from this melting of the two tongues. Also Latin and Greek added to the mix. Before 1066 Danish also added to the language spoken in England. The Spanish spoken in the USA will be a melting of Spanish and English. Sometimes it is hard to remember a word in one or the other language and using a Spanish word among other Spanish speakers will occur. The grammar will probably be Spanish, since that is the language that people are used to a home. Just like the Saxons in England. They spoke Old English and the Normans Old French. Then the languages were melted.
There was no French before 1066. French started appearing after the 12 century when Latin started dying. And English was already a language before all the romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.
@@soniaf7794you are very much mistaken. By the 700’s it was recognized that the various Romance languages were unintelligible to one another.
I still think it's not an official language...
As a Spanish native speaker, I always thought of Spanglish as an abomination. It felt like they didn't bother to learn their roots enough to even learn Spanish. Now I have a more understanding point of view. I don't judge them. I don't think them as less Latinos just because they don't speak proper Spanish. However, I still think that this seemingly random combination sounds bad.
I have to agree.
I would have liked better: Maria is chequeando sus respuestas
Good on you that you grew up
Yup I agree. Although Spanglish really irritates me, I am more understanding if talked that way. But I try my best for my children to speak proper Spanish.
Are you european?
There is also the issue of different Spanish vocab, accent, depending on country background, like mexican, puerto rican, cuban, dominican, etc. There is no academy in charge of deciding that Spanglish is an official. Is there a dictionary of Spanglish? Even the most educated spanish-speakers will struggle with the subjuntivo.
Spanish is cool
Me gustas Alondra Posadas, me enamoras
I speak Spanglish, but I don't think it should be an official language. Its also not just an "American" thing, it is used in many English countries where Latino communities are present. There are other forms speaking that mix like this as well like tagalish(Tagalog+English), Denglish(German+Eng) that I have heard people speak, and pretty sure its something that happens with most minorities in English countries. Just doesn't make sense on how it would be official as a language, because there are several ways to say the same thing differently; there are no rules to it.
Yeah, my dad grew up bilingual French-English, and he and I tend to speak Franglais/Frenglish when we’re together. I do, however, also speak French fairly fluently.
Unwritten rules do not mean "no rules". When you scrutinize these contact languages more, you will realize they are actually governed by rules to the point where they have become official "languages" as Haitian Creole & other creolized languages.
@@Louisianish Tu n'as pas besoin d'ajouter que tu parles francais puisque tu parles Franglais.
@@usgalsen Tu n’as pas compris mon commentaire. Dans ce contexte, c’est de l’information pertinente. Il y a du monde qui parle franglais mais qui ne parle pas bien le français. Moi, je parle les deux, pas parfaitement mais assez couramment. C’est pas tout le monde qui parle franglais qui peut parler aussi couramment français.
@@usgalsen Yes. All languages, even pidgin languages (contact languages with no native speakers…Note: Hawaiian Pidgin and Nigerian Pidgin, despite being called "Pidgin," are actually creole languages, not pidgins), are governed by rules.
Interesting theory but I just don’t see it as the completeness of either language. Spanish is my second language and I stick to pure Spanish, I don’t Mix the two languages. In my travels I meet a lot of people who are not completely fluent in English or Spanish they just kind of live in the middle space and therefore they are constantly trading back-and-forth between one language vocabulary and the other. One of the things that gets lost in between The two is the rules of grammar, pronunciation and of course a lot of mistakes people are using with vocabulary when they switch back-and-forth. They will use the word “house“ instead of using the word “home”. They will also mistakenly call someone a lover and seven hey friend, all of this mixup in the shop is not acceptable, I think linguist so horrified especially how Spanish is getting weekend and wash down. They’re having the same problem in France with Franglais, I find it irritating and annoying, and I’ve been around Spanglish for about 30 years. When I start a conversation in Spanish it remains in Spanish I do not switch back-and-forth, I think that’s mostly done out of laziness or lack of all vocabulary I need a language
Like it or not but that is part of the natural evolution of languages.
French and Spanish are just one of dozens of romance dialects that’s ere once spoken in what is now France and Spain respectively that won out and destroyed the others, all of which are “weakened” version of Latin.
On top of that English itself saw its grammar and vocabulary especially change drastically due to the presence of other languages, notably French under the Normans but also with the Norse, which produced the English language we see today.
Languages aren’t static objects. They’re tools that are meant to allow us to communicate ideas to each other. Just because Spanglish is isn’t just English with Spanish loanwords or Spanish with English loan words doesn’t change that.
Spanglish is not a blend of 2 languages it is mostly Spanish speakers dropping some English into their speech and not the way or other way around
la verdad si suena bien feo el "espanglish"
The problem with spanglish is that not only sounds terrible but it can only be understood here in the USA take a Chicano to a Latin American country or spain and they would not be able to communicate
not only sounds terrible? who said that? Suena precioso to me. Why would you take Spanglish to a Spanish speaking country? It is a different language, if you take Spanglish to Uk you won't be able to communicate neither. Spanglish, and other lenguas fronterizas como el Portunhol ason hermosas expresiones de nuestras realidades. Melody, no seas tan self deprecatory and let yourself enjoy the joy of Spanglish.
sounds terrible... I'm from latinamerica and I hate when people mix languages... respect the languages. They are just speaking wrong or don't know the word and change the language... a lot of people in latinamerica and Spain hate it too
@@miriamkennedy3681 if everyone in the Spanglish speaking community understands each other, that's all that matters. Besides, nothing is stopping them from learning Castilian, Mexican, Carribbean, etc. Spanglish is just a part of their identity. Nothing "wrong" about it.
Wrong pendejo, it sounds terrible if you don't understand it and obviously you don't, I'm Puerto Rican descent born and raised in New York, I've been to Spain many times and never had a problem, you know why because I speak fluent Spanish and studied Standard Spanish and Castilian Spanish but I speak spanglish with my Hermanos in the United States, so brother you don't what your talking about, now I'm going to cerrar la Puerta porque the flies from your mouth are tying to get in.
Sounds terrible? Hahah no jodas
chequear no es spanglish, la palabra se usa en latinoamerica y es aceptada por la RAE
Se dice Checar, no chequear xDD
@@xpxpe5645 solo se dice checar en mexico
This language sounds horrible to listen to in a conversation
Spanglish is not a language. Most people crossing the border speak a street language: no grammar, no proper pronunciation, very vague vocabulary. It makes me sick every time I hear abominations like trocka, aseguranza, washateria, carpeta (wrong word for carpet. Carpeta means folder). I had a plumber the other day calling pipes as "pipas". Pipas in Spanish is a sort of coconut, very common in Latin-America. People who speak spanglish do not make any effort to speak correctly neither of both languages. Every time I hear someone trashing a beautiful language as Spanish is, I filter that person as un-educated.
Thats the kind of out dated discriminatory mentality that holds the world back, and all for the way they speak. The more people think like this, the more the world suffers from division.
@@bigbuddahmane not really. Education is key to the growth of the world. If we don’t teach the Latino community to educate themselves in their own language, how are we supposed to grow culturally? We’re not even educated enough to explain ourselves in Spanish? We’re the least educated community in the United States.... this isn’t about division.... it’s about properly checking your people and making sure they don’t adopt this “Spanglish” and learn to speak properly... speaking properly is very important everywhere!
@Sonia F i agree with you
You've never heard of Creole languages? Modern English literally began when people in England started mixing Anglo-Saxon and old French. That was the "Spanglish" of medieval England. And it eventually turned into its own language. This is an inevitable process.
@@Jonmad17 Creole languages are not complete languages. Of course I have heard of creole. I live in Houston, close to Louisiana. Do you think I live under a rock?
Every language has a transition, a period of formation, an evolution. People do not start talking a language overnight.
I think you are referring to old English. The English spoken by Shakespeare ( 1564 -1616) which you referred as medieval, is the same English language spoken today. Is just old English.
The Spanish written in Don Quijote de la Mancha is Spanish as well, only old Spanish.
You think you know what you are talking about, but you don't.
How old are you? 18?
This is the most Lazyness form of expression . As we speak the Local Puerto Rican islanders are using this form of expression , wich creates some form of narccistic beleif among The Academic mindset and the young generation , making themselves believe they’re Americans without ever living in the U.S…it’s Very very Contradicting to the Mind and identity…
I dont think its good to speak spanglish