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         As a spanish native speaker, one of my wishes was to learn english because i was fascinated by how it sounded when i would see north americans visiting my country Honduras. I thought that english was a language that was hard to master. I came to the United States not knowing that "hi" is another form of saying "hello" nor that how are you doing? is same as saying how are you?. Fortunately, an american family took me under their wings and helped me through my process of learning a language different than my own.
At first, i remembered having to touch the objects or by signs in order to get my message across of what i wanted to say. Words such as :down there, out there, down here, over here and so on were very difficult and i thought that i would never be able to use them in sentences. I never went to school to learn english in the United States, the people who i lived with were very patient and helped me just learn to speak they told me that later i would start writing words out of mere casualty and thats how it happened, all of the sudden i begun writing sentences and i could not have been prouder of me for that accomplishment. So i moved from the State of Kansas were they speak with a kind of southern accent to the city of New york were immediately people knew that i spoke with an accent but it wasnt the spanish accent that many of us have when learning english. It was funny because i would be told all the time if i was from another state rather than another country. I guess is the way some things are called different name for instance in Kansas they call any soda "pop" whereas here in new york city is just soda. I can not say that i speak english as well as i do spanish i think in ach case the learning process will never end but i can say that i feel very confident about the way i speak my second language. Certainly, there is so much truth about the article by Deutcher because even in my country which is probably smaller than any state of the United States, people speak diferent in the south and have different names for things. Its not so hard to understand that language does shape the way we think and act as well.