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FOR ANYONE WHO HAS HAD TO DEFEND THEIR MAMA'S ACCENT
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A Latina poet beautifully explains why we should be proud of our parent's accents.
"If there's one thing we know about #GrowingUpLatino, it's this— there are just some words that people who grew up speaking Spanish as their first languagecan't say for sh-t. But we also know that there is a certain type of beauty in being able to pronounce English words in your own unique way.
Award-winning Latina poet Denice Frohman explains this all perfectly in her piece "Accents," in which she describes all the ways her mother's accent adds more rhythm and flavor to normally boring, harsh-sounding English words..."
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