Language
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My Language Journey
I’ve lived most of my life as a monolingual, which, if your frame of reference is in the right way, can be a really good thing. However, my life took a vastly different path once I started studying foreign languages. From an early age, I enjoyed the pressure of challenging myself to try the next big thing. Eventually, I felt that I outgrew my surroundings and wanted to try something completely out of my wheelhouse, but what? I was about 10 at the time, and in the 7th grade, it is expected that you start learning a foreign language. I didn’t really know what to expect out of this, but I…
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My Affinity for Spanish
I’ve been studying Spanish for as long as I can remember. At first it started out as just a class that I was forced into, but it quickly became much, much more; and it didn’t take long for me to realize that I was very good at this thing called “foreign languages” which was all but a foreign concept to me. But it wasn’t until high school that I realized that I could actually do something with Spanish. I found out about this thing called IU Honors, or IUHPFL, which is best described as this two-month immersive study abroad program (literally the stuff of fantasies). I made it my goal, my dream,…