Celebrate bilingualism and New Mexican Spanish
NHCC-Newsletter-August-11-–-245 pm to 7 pm Did you know? … Spanish was spoken in NM before English was. … when talking about your parents in NM Spanish, mi dad is preferred over mi papá, but mi mamá is preferred over mi mom. … as well as widespread borrowings like dad, bilinguals will spontaneously integrate an English word perfectly into Spanish grammar, as in unas carrots grandotas. Does Spanglish mean mixing up languages? Code-switching is the topic of a new book Bilingualism in the Community (Torres Cacoullos & Travis, Cambridge University Press, 2018). This exciting (more...)
