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Born into a monolingual family.
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From first grade up to twelve grade, I got a fifty minutes period of English class. I got introduced to a second language by sometimes very good and sometimes not so good English teachers.
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Many of the classes were taught in English. This forced me to read many textbooks in English and to find the courage to ask questions in that language.
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Inmersion studies into the Italian Language at the University for Foriners, Perugia, Italy. This was the completion of a minor on Italian at the UPR-Mayaguez
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I was Introduced to my future husband. He tought I was a woman of few words: Yes, No, Aha!, and I don't know. The truth: I was afraid to speak in English.
Later on I started to learn Farsi. -
The first bilingual secondary level school in the western area. Challengig job: up till that moment I have taught in Spanish
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This program gave us at the school the opportunity to visit various sites in US to meet with other teachers and share ideas in education mostly in English.
