Hispanics in the US: Life in Spanglish

This BBC website has several very interesting articles about Hispanics in the U.S. Written by the same author, she has researched and written from a British view. Very interesting. - - Donna Poisl

By Ana Lucia Gonzalez, BBC News

Spanish can be heard on the streets of almost any major American city these days, as Hispanic immigrants mingle with the English-speaking majority.

But an increasing number, particularly children who've been through US schools, are bilingual. Very often they switch between languages within a single sentence, or borrow English words and put them into Spanish, making a hybrid known as Spanglish.

This group is now too big for media organisations and advertisers to ignore. New ways of broadcasting and marketing products are being developed to target them.
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