How I learned English
Subtitle: 55 accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life
By: edited by Tom Miller ; [foreword by Ray Suarez ; afterword by Frank McCourt].
Contributors: Miller, Tom, 1947-
Publisher: National Geographic
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781426200977
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching -- Spanish speakers; English language -- Study and teaching -- Spanish speakers -- Anecdotes; English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers; English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.
Other titles: Fifty-five accomplished Latinos recall lessons in language and life.
Description: 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 José Serrano and writer Oscar Hijuelos.
Table of contents: title: Learning English with shotaro / Ruth  Behar; title: Mississippi, girdles, and John Wooden / Gabriel Rozman; title: Trilingual ease / Franc J. Camara; title: Power / Marie Arana; title: Guillermo Cabrera Infante in the wonderland of English / Suzanne Jill Levine; title: Pura bicultura / Coco Fusco; title: Aria / Richard Rodriguez; title: Learning English by the Sinatra method / José Serrano; title: From English gentleman to Zelig / Alvaro Vargas Llosa; title: The way of the dinosaurs / Rafael Campo; title: My two tongues/Mis dos lenguas : on how I came to have a forked tongue / Liliana Valenzuela; title: Don Francisco's six steps to better English / Mario Kreutzberger ("Don Francisco"); title: What happened to our old life? / Gigi Anders; title: Baseball taught me English / Orlando Cepeda; title: Ghost boy / Francisco Goldman; title: The special English girls / Gioconda Belli; title: From Montevideo to Saginaw in one easy lesson / Nando Parrado; title: English : my passport to poetry and theatre, science and life / Walter Mercado; title: When I was a little Cuban boy / Richard Blanco; title: Yellow magazine / Elena Poniatowska; title: The learning curve / Rubén Martínez; title: A subtitled life / Enrique Fernández; title: Shaping language / Enrique Martínez Celaya; title: The ultimate challenge / Paquito D'Rivera; title: The Mexicans who speak English (collected by Américo Paredes) / Anonymous; title: Dangerous English / Johanna Castillo; title: Ay doan peek eenglee ; or, No me pica la ingle (My groin doesn't itch) / José Kozer; title: Amerika, America / Ilan Stavans; title: José Manué...You don't know no English / Jesús Vega; title: The tremendous assimilation happened to me / Piri Thomas; title: Once upon a time on the border / Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz; title: Better English through unions / Byron Silva; title: English helped my golf / Lorena Ochoa; title: My stepmother tongue / Patricia de Santana Pinho; title: From basic training to fluent English / José Bajandas; title: The secret language / Daisy Zamora; title: Fluid, dynamic, and mischievous / Miguel Barnet; title: My tongue is divided into two / Quique Aviles; title: The blessings of Arroz con Mango / Cristina Saralegui; title: Who knew Desi Arnaz wasn't white? / H.G. Carrillo; title: Wordsranintoeachother / Esmeralda Santiago; title: Really / Josefina López; title: English lessons and the Berlitz system / Germán Arciniegas; title: Soda and nylons, learning English was no pignic / Guillermo Linares; title: Good food and a good fastball taught me English / Juan Marichal; title: Breaking down the glass walls of language / Ariel Dorfman; title: How I learned English...or did i? / Mayra Montero; title: Nothing seemed unreachable after traveling through Europe in a used red Lada / Alejandro Necochea; title: Doris Day, John Kennedy, and me / Teresa Méndez-Faith; title: Advantages of the civilized world / Oscar Hijuelos; title: El dobbing and my English / Ignacio Padilla; title: Writing in between / Rosario Ferré; title: Pink Floyd taught me English / Roberto Quesada; title: The trouble with English / Gloria López-Stafford; title: My Cuban parents learn English in night school / Virgil Suárez; title: English is cuh-ray-zee / Richard Lederer & Josh White, Jr.