For eñyes, NOT speaking Spanish can mean that we feel shame that we can’t speak our family’s language while at the same time we feel like we are isolated from our culture and heritage.

Not speaking Spanish can also represent a painful disconnect from culture, but it doesn’t have to be. In the following pages, we will explore your connection to language in a meaningful way.

The impact of this is felt in many of our families. For some, it means we feel shame about speaking our parents’ language and if our parents didn’t speak English we might have been thrust into being the family spokesperson.