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How I Learned English : 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life, Paperback / softback Book

How I Learned English : 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life Paperback / softback

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Every new English-speaker has a tale to tell: an immigrant yearning to assimilate and achieve, or a political exile suddenly far from home and alone, or a child who just wants to fit in.

Their fears and triumphs will resonate with everyone who has shared this exasperating, exhilarating experience, whether last year or a lifetime ago.

This wonderful, eclectic, inviting collection speaks to-and for-all of them, and goes directly to the heart of the national debate on language and immigration.

Congressman Jose Serrano, for example, describes learning English from Frank Sinatra records.

Cuban-American author Oscar Hijuelos picked it up as a sick little boy in an American hospital bed.

Many find it a daunting ordeal; for others English came easily.

But from TV personality Cristina Saralegui to Hall of Fame baseball player Orlando Cepeda, every last one remembers what it felt like to do battle with bizarre idioms, irregular verbs, and all the other incomprehensible intricacies that tangle the tongue.

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