Biding their tongues – Cuban-born Maria Carreira is a professor at Cal State Long Beach. She has a finely honed sense of Spanish-English etiquette that leads her to use Spanish sparingly in public, unless she is approached in that language.
Tagged: book, California, Cuba, Cuban, latina, ProfessorPosted on: November 13th, 2007
Cuban-born Maria Carreira, the coauthor of two college Spanish textbooks, can glide easily between her native tongue and English. But in her daily life in Southern California, picking which language to speak can be very complicado.
Such as the time when she was at a taco stand where everyone seemed to be ordering and chatting in Spanish. Carreira started placing her order en español, but she quickly switched to English after she got a look at the young employee behind the counter.”*
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