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The combination of a Spanish-language online newspaper or magazine and lingro.com can help with reading comprehension, but for writing it might mean joining an online language exchange forum. The beauty of these forums is that you can take all the time you need to compose your questions and answers.

Parents mean well when they enforce language restrictions, but I felt completely cut off from my roots. I didn’t know that I was Puerto Rican until I was a teenager. I grew up in a white middle-class neighborhood on Long Island and blended in with everyone else. I never did question the fact that my mother only spoke to her mother in Spanish. 🤔