Language gates open when you are bilingual

When you are bilingual, or multilingual, you have the opportunity to think, dream, pray, reflect, sing, discuss, swear, debate, inform, in more than one language. I often find myself praying, pondering, and reflecting in Spanish, but expressing criticism, anger, and song in English. I go back and forth as the moment dictates, and I am receptive to either one or the other language at that instant. Spanish gives me poetry pleasure, while English allows me to more easily discuss and analyse complex issues. I can go to Spanish and search for a metaphor, but to English for a scientific explanation.

It gives me so much pleasure to listen to how native Spanish speakers us3 one of many speech forms, and how emotion, desire, and sweetness is expressed in the different forms. There is not one way to speak any language, since language is simply a roof, and ceiling, under which there are many speech manifestations of the bigger language. Usually these manifestations of speech are physically localized to a region. This make learning Spanish thrilling, but confusing and frustrating for some. However, English also has the same characteristics. Language is what we all have in common with one another, but our distinctive mark is left in speech. Each one uses the structures of language in an unique, localized way.

Let’s use the language we know, and have joy with learning other languages, and other speech forms withing the languages. I am fluent in Spanish, but still want to know and perfect speech forms in Spanish, just as I am always trying to improve my English. I feel proud to be a bilingual American, when so many in my country are lazy or uninterested in other languages or cultures. I am on a mission to promote the Spanish language, and multiple languages in general.

Vamos a hablar el castellano? Dimelo!