Blog 1

Hi everybody! It seems like we already know each other pretty well, since we've already been in the same class for a whole semester. Nonetheless, here is some information you may not know about me: I am a Spanish major and a Chinese language minor. I’m not exactly sure what I want my career to be, but right now I am thinking about adding an English major, and possibly eventually teaching English to speakers of other languages.

I chose to take this class because it fits in perfectly with my Spanish major. Languages aren’t spoken in a vacuum, and so the more cultural information you know about a place where a language is spoken, the better and more effectively you can communicate with native speakers in that language. I learned bits of cultural information about Spanish-speaking countries here and there throughout the five years that I studied Spanish before starting college, and I saw taking this class as an opportunity to get a more extensive understanding of Latin American civilization and culture.