Bibliograph

How I learned English, 55 accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life, edited by Tom Miller ; [foreword by Ray Suarez ; afterword by Frank McCourt]

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How I learned English, 55 accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life, edited by Tom Miller ; [foreword by Ray Suarez ; afterword by Frank McCourt]

Language

eng

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contains biographical information

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How I learned English

Oclc number

141385379

Responsibility statement

edited by Tom Miller ; [foreword by Ray Suarez ; afterword by Frank McCourt]

Sub title

55 accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life

Summary

Leading Latino artists, entertainers, politicians, authors, and athletes explain how they each dealt with the challenges and intricacies of learning the English language, including Congressman Josڳe Serrano and writer Oscar Hijuelos

Table Of Contents

Learning English with shotaro / Ruth Behar -- Mississippi, girdles, and John Wooden / Gabriel Rozman -- Trilingual ease / Franc J. Camara -- Power / Marie Arana -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante in the wonderland of English / Suzanne Jill Levine -- Pura bicultura / Coco Fusco -- Aria / Richard Rodriguez -- Learning English by the Sinatra method / Josڳe Serrano -- From English gentleman to Zelig / Alvaro Vargas Llosa -- The way of the dinosaurs / Rafael Campo -- My two tongues/Mis dos lenguas : on how I came to have a forked tongue / Liliana Valenzuela -- Don Francisco's six steps to better English / Mario Kreutzberger ("Don Francisco") -- What happened to our old life? / Gigi Anders -- Baseball taught me English / Orlando Cepeda -- Ghost boy / Francisco Goldman -- The special English girls / Gioconda Belli -- From Montevideo to Saginaw in one easy lesson / Nando Parrado -- English : my passport to poetry and theatre, science and life / Walter Mercado -- When I was a little Cuban boy / Richard BlancoYellow magazine / Elena Poniatowska -- The learning curve / Rubڳen Martڳinez -- A subtitled life / Enrique Fernڳandez -- Shaping language / Enrique Martڳinez Celaya -- The ultimate challenge / Paquito D'Rivera -- The Mexicans who speak English (collected by Amڳerico Paredes) / Anonymous -- Dangerous English / Johanna Castillo -- Ay doan peek eenglee ; or, No me pica la ingle (My groin doesn't itch) / Josڳe Kozer -- Amerika, America / Ilan Stavans -- Josڳe Manuڳe ... You don't know no English / Jesڳus Vega -- The tremendous assimilation happened to me / Piri Thomas -- Once upon a time on the border / Gabriel Trujillo Muڵnoz -- Better English through unions / Byron Silva -- English helped my golf / Lorena Ochoa -- My stepmother tongue / Patricia de Santana Pinho -- From basic training to fluent English / Josڳe Bajandas -- The secret language / Daisy Zamora -- Fluid, dynamic, and mischievous / Miguel Barnet -- My tongue is divided into two / Quique AvilesThe blessings of Arroz con Mango / Cristina Saralegui -- Who knew Desi Arnaz wasn't white? / H.G. Carrillo -- Wordsranintoeachother / Esmeralda Santiago -- Really / Josefina Lڳopez -- English lessons and the Berlitz system / Germڳan Arciniegas -- Soda and nylons, learning English was no pignic / Guillermo Linares -- Good food and a good fastball taught me English / Juan Marichal -- Breaking down the glass walls of language / Ariel Dorfman -- How I learned English ... or did i? / Mayra Montero -- Nothing seemed unreachable after traveling through Europe in a used red Lada / Alejandro Necochea -- Doris Day, John Kennedy, and me / Teresa Mڳendez-Faith -- Advantages of the civilized world / Oscar Hijuelos -- El dobbing and my English / Ignacio Padilla -- Writing in between / Rosario Ferrڳe -- Pink Floyd taught me English / Roberto Quesada -- The trouble with English / Gloria Lڳopez-Stafford -- My Cuban parents learn English in night school / Virgil Suڳarez -- English is cuh-ray-zee / Richard Lederer & Josh White, Jr

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Fifty-five accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life

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