Thread:JeloElducal/@comment-26888167-20190227143920/@comment-26888167-20190306035031

Is it really possible to know how to read and write a language, but not know how to speak it? That's my question.

I was born in California, USA. I lived there for the first four years of my life. There I learned spanish from my parents, and I learned english from TV and computer games. I then lived in Texas for four other years. School was in english as well, and all my classmates and teachers speaked english. Before moving to Nicaragua, most of my world was in english. I only speaked spanish with my parents.

I believe having the highest grades in my elementary school would've been impossible if I couldn't speak english as well as I write it. Simply put, since I learned both english and spanish as a young child, it's almost as if both languages were my first tongue. I can speak both of them equally well.