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Soooo.. where are YOU from??! Are you a "regular American?"  What is your heritage?  If they were immigrants, how were your ancestors treated when they arrived to the United States?  How are they treated now?  What about immigrants who are entering the United States today? Del 15 de septiembre al 15 de octubre celebramos en los Estados Unidos el Mes de la Herencia Hispana (Hispanic Heritage Month).  Did you know that the United States recognizes Hispanic Heritage Month? Why does it begin in the middle of September?  Have you seen the National Football League, the Today Show, Major League Baseball or another group honoring this celebration? Check out this  video  from the NFL and this  clip  of the Today Show that aired while they were celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month (and partnering with Telemundo) for Viva Today.   Major League Baseball  has also embraced Hispanic Heritage Month as demonstrated with th...

"English is so much easier!" This is a quote that most people who are native English speakers have shouted in frustration while trying to learn another language.  However, people who are learning English as a second language understand just how ridiculously difficult English really is. Consider the following sentences: - The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert. - The bandage was wound around the wound. - A seamstress and a sewer fell down the sewer. - There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger and neither apple nor pine in pineapple. - You park in the driveway and drive on the parkway. - When the stars are out, they are visible but when the lights are out, they are invisible. The exceptions are in the thousands with plurals like tooth and teeth and cactus and cacti, and past tenses like eat becoming ate and lose becoming lost! Spelling in English feels nearly impossible for so many people because of those mysterious silent letters ...