1. Aria: a Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
... confidence in himself if he is able to speak English, the "public language." When his father spoke in Spanish there was no hesitation, no loss of words and his voice was strong and powerful. In paragraph 13 the author recalled how uneasy he felt when he heard his father speaking in English to ... a teenage gas station attendant. He remembered growing nervous as he listened to his father struggling with words and stressing to assure that his listener understood the meaning of his words. The author then recalls how the attendant answered, speaking in such calm and even tone, with a voice,...
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