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Recientemente tuve una pequeña discusión con una persona que dice ser bilingue. Esta persona, como muchas en este país (USA), habla, lee y escribe relativamente bien inglés. Sin embargo habla "Spanglish", no español, lee y escribe muy mal el español. Es una persona nacida y criada aquí y el poco español que habla lo aprendió de sus padres, de origen mejicano.

Para mi, una persona bilingue (inglés-español), es una persona que habla, lee y escribe bien los dos idiomas, punto.

Me gustaría conocer su opinión. Gracias

Recently I had a little discussion with someone that says she is bilingual. This person, like many in this country (USA), speaks, read and write relatively well English. However, she speaks Spanglish, not Spanish and read and write very badly her Spanish. She was born and raised here in America and the poor Spanish she speaks she learned it from her parents, originally from Mexico.

In my opinion, a bilingual person (English-Spanish), is a person that speaks, reads and writes well in both languages, period.

I would like to know your opinion. Thank you.

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updated Mar 6, 2014
edited by RicardoP
posted by RicardoP
Thank you for such a great topic. I'm sure we will all learn from the different points of view expressed. - Goyo, Feb 12, 2010
Con mucho gusto Goyo - RicardoP, Feb 12, 2010
Buen hilo Ricardo - Izanoni1, Feb 12, 2010
buen hilo Ricardo - Nicole-B, Feb 12, 2010
Yes, good topic. - Goldie_Miel, Oct 26, 2011