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How I learned English

55 accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life

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An edition of How I learned English (2007)

How I learned English

55 accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life

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Pages
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How I learned English: 55 accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life
2007, National Geographic
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Cover of: How I learned English
How I learned English: 55 accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life
2007, National Geographic
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How I Learned English: 55 Accomplished Latinos Recall Lessons in Language and Life
August 21, 2007, National Geographic
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Table of Contents

Learning English with shotaro / Ruth Behar
Mississippi, girdles, and John Wooden / Gabriel Rozman
Trilingual ease / Franc J. Camara
Power / Marie Arana
Guillermo Cabrera Infante in the wonderland of English / Suzanne Jill Levine
Pura bicultura / Coco Fusco
Aria / Richard Rodriguez
Learning English by the Sinatra method / José Serrano
From English gentleman to Zelig / Alvaro Vargas Llosa
The way of the dinosaurs / Rafael Campo
My two tongues/Mis dos lenguas : on how I came to have a forked tongue / Liliana Valenzuela
Don Francisco's six steps to better English / Mario Kreutzberger ("Don Francisco")
What happened to our old life? / Gigi Anders
Baseball taught me English / Orlando Cepeda
Ghost boy / Francisco Goldman
The special English girls / Gioconda Belli
From Montevideo to Saginaw in one easy lesson / Nando Parrado
English : my passport to poetry and theatre, science and life / Walter Mercado
When I was a little Cuban boy / Richard Blanco
Yellow magazine / Elena Poniatowska
The learning curve / Rubén Martínez
A subtitled life / Enrique Fernández
Shaping language / Enrique Martínez Celaya
The ultimate challenge / Paquito D'Rivera
The Mexicans who speak English (collected by Américo Paredes) / Anonymous
Dangerous English / Johanna Castillo
Ay doan peek eenglee ; or, No me pica la ingle (My groin doesn't itch) / José Kozer
Amerika, America / Ilan Stavans
José Manué...You don't know no English / Jesús Vega
The tremendous assimilation happened to me / Piri Thomas
Once upon a time on the border / Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz
Better English through unions / Byron Silva
English helped my golf / Lorena Ochoa
My stepmother tongue / Patricia de Santana Pinho
From basic training to fluent English / José Bajandas
The secret language / Daisy Zamora
Fluid, dynamic, and mischievous / Miguel Barnet
My tongue is divided into two / Quique Aviles
The blessings of Arroz con Mango / Cristina Saralegui
Who knew Desi Arnaz wasn't white? / H.G. Carrillo
Wordsranintoeachother / Esmeralda Santiago
Really / Josefina López
English lessons and the Berlitz system / Germán Arciniegas
Soda and nylons, learning English was no pignic / Guillermo Linares
Good food and a good fastball taught me English / Juan Marichal
Breaking down the glass walls of language / Ariel Dorfman
How I learned English...or did i? / Mayra Montero
Nothing seemed unreachable after traveling through Europe in a used red Lada / Alejandro Necochea
Doris Day, John Kennedy, and me / Teresa Méndez-Faith
Advantages of the civilized world / Oscar Hijuelos
El dobbing and my English / Ignacio Padilla
Writing in between / Rosario Ferré
Pink Floyd taught me English / Roberto Quesada
The trouble with English / Gloria López-Stafford
My Cuban parents learn English in night school / Virgil Suárez
English is cuh-ray-zee / Richard Lederer & Josh White, Jr.

Edition Notes

Published in
Washington, D.C
Genre
Anecdotes.
Other Titles
Fifty-five accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
428.34
Library of Congress
PE1129.S8 H85 2007, , LC2686.4 .H69 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 267 p. ;
Number of pages
267

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL19567400M
Internet Archive
howilearnedengli0000unse
ISBN 10
1426200978
ISBN 13
9781426200977
LCCN
2007299416
OCLC/WorldCat
141385379
Goodreads
638644

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