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a.) I have not had that experience but I have a friend who went through this experience. Spanish was her natural language and what was spoken in her household. She was never really comfortable with the English language. She always felt insecure and thought she would say something wrong.
b.) I could greatly compare the experience of speaking one language and another at school to the idea of me having to the language pretaining to my career field. That is so because nursing requires a whole new language that is not normally spoken in my home. There will be a lot of terms for me to process and can be a hard thing to do because I am so use to the way I normally speak at home. But it must be learned becuase it will be the only way I can succeed in that career field.
c.)Yes, it will be important in my career field. It will be important because others will be using the language and you must be able to know what they are talking about. In the hospital they use very specific terms that I would not normally hear or use in my household. That means that I must really get into learning it because I will have to communicate with others in a totally different way than which I am use to doing.
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a.)Yes, families do change as the children grow up. They change because as the kids get other they find different things tha appeal to them rather than what their family does. They learn new things and meet new people that help them develop into themselves. No, success is never attainable without a scarafice. We all had to give up something we love or enjoyed for better reasons. If scarafices were not made many people would not be in the great positions that they are in now.
b.) Yes, you can have intimacy with language in academic disciplines and career fields that would be fulfilling. You can have intimacy with the language depending how strongly you feel or care a bout your career. Also if you strongly feel for the thing in which you will be using the language to do.
c.) I do not feel that Rodriguez feels like the scarafice was worth it. I think he does not feel that way because of the way he felt when he heard some people speaking Spanish. He felt like it brought him back to his childhood days and all he could do was smile.
When I answered the question about having difficulties in learning a language in your career field compared to the language you grew up with, I automatically thought of different ethnic languages like Spanish or French, but I never thought of it as terms being used in the career field you chose. I agree that it could be difficult because you don't normally speak in those terms at home. I also agree that it is an important thing to learn the language in your career field because it will allow you to go further in your career and give you confidence.
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