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To: Yogizuna who wrote (2908)	7/16/2003 12:55:35 AM
From: Coz	Read Replies (1) of 20773

<< their parents, most of whom insist on speaking in their native tongue at home constantly >> I don't have so much an opinion on this as a memory. The Italian side of my family seemed to handle English okay after coming to the U.S., but my Czech grandmother just could never get a handle on it even though she came to this country when she was only 13. In her life, she raised three children speaking Czech to them and even sending them to a Czech language elementary school in Chicago--who would have thought there used to be such a thing. Oddly enough, my mother and aunts all grew up speaking English perfectly, and the only accent you could detect was a Chicago accent. I'm not sure this has all that much to do with Spanish speakers as that is a much larger population and culture, in fact, predating the U.S. here, but I do know that my Grandmother was a business owner (neighborhood grocery type thing) and somehow had a rather successful life speaking broken English mixed with a language that practically no one here seemed to understand. The U.S. is a strange place when you think about such things. --Coz

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