Graduate Degree Application: English as a Second Language
As the granddaughter of immigrants, I understand the difficulties that can plague the non-English-speaking foreign-born. My childhood was filled with warm memories of my grandparents, but I also remember struggling to understand their broken English. My grandmother had her own pronunciation for everyday words, such as "ween-doors" for windows and "harr" for heart. I generally understood these, but sometimes she would use a new word that I could not figure out. Weeks went by one year before I deduced that "pineys" was peonies. The problems on the immigrants' side of the language barrier are even greater. My grandmother was arrested and taken to the police station one day for jaywalking because she did not understand what the policeman directing traffic was saying to her. Neither she nor my gra
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