2 Languages, Many Voices: Latinos In The U.S. 6:00 am Wed
October 19, 2011  Spanish, English And Spanglish: Facebook Fans
React  NPR's Morning Edition is exploring bilingual life in the
U.S. as the population of Spanish speakers grows. How does the
use of English and Spanish affect your life?  When we asked our
Facebook fans how the use of Spanish and English was affecting
them, we were surprised by the more than 1,000 comments the
question received. Fans shared feelings of appreciation, claimed
it had enhanced their love lives and expressed annoyance and
anger at being turned down for jobs for not knowing Spanish. One
mother in Texas even told us she made her husband sleep outside
her son's school "in the cold and rain" to secure a spot in a
dual language program. Here is a sampling of responses. ¡Que
disfruten! (Enjoy!)  Razz Irasema Cortes-Maceda: "Spanish is
voice of my soul and English is the voice of my expression. As a
fully bilingual person, I cannot imagine how narrowly
monolinguals perceive the worl