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How I Became Multilingual

  • It's a Girl!

    Born into a monolingual family.
  • Hello English!

    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.
  • University Life

    University Life
    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.
  • Ciao Italia!

    Ciao Italia!
    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
  • Salam, Ali Agha!

    Salam, Ali Agha!
    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.
  • Ramirez de Arellano Bilingual School as a science teacher

    Ramirez de Arellano Bilingual School as a science teacher
    The first bilingual secondary level school in the western area. Challengig job: up till that moment I have taught in Spanish
  • Expeditionary Learning Model 2003-2006

    Expeditionary Learning Model 2003-2006
    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.