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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Interviewer: ] So what's your name? [ Kristine: ] My name is Kristine and
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}it is April 26th. [ Interviewer: ] So tell me Kristine,
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}are your parents literate in more than one language?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Kristine: ] Yes. My mother's from Brazil and her
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}grandparents are from Italy. So she's fluent in 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian. And she also speaks
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}French proficiently. 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And she learned American English upon coming to
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}America in her early twenties. My father
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}upon meeting my mother decided he wanted to learn
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}Portuguese. So he speaks pretty proficiently.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Interviewer: ] And what about you? Are you literate in more than one language?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Kristine: ] I take classes in Arabic.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}So I speak that decently well.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}And I'm going to take a class in Italian and Portuguese.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}So I can follow my heritage and such. [ Interviewer: ] So
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}why is it that you didn't become literate in 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}more than one language when you were younger? [ Kristine: ] Well since
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}I grew up in America, I don't think it was one of parents biggest concerns
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}when I was growing up. Because they weren't
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}really focused on our Portuguese culture as much as our American 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}culture. So they tried to teach
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}us but we never really picked up on it. When I was younger I spoke it 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}a little with my parents but never got fluent.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}in the language.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}But my sister and I have both been taking classes in Portuguese. In hopes 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}of learning more about our Brazilian 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}culture. [ Interviewer: ] So do you think becoming literate in 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}Portuguese is helping you learn more about your culture and connect more
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}with your family? [ Kristine: ] It definitely does
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}because I actually never met my Brazilian family
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}until this summer, through facebook. And we actually have a huge
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}language barrier between us because they don't speak English well and I don't 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}speak Portuguese well. So 
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}it's not easy for us to communicate with each other and it's
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}upsetting that I don't know half of my family and it's hard for me to speak
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}with them. So learning Portuguese would actually be
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}a major contributor in uniting my family.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Interviewer: ] So have you and your sister been helping each other out with it? Or has it just been on your own?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Kristine: ] Yeah occasionally we'll try and talk to each other
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}in Portuguese, but, I mean, none of us are really good
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}at it. So it's still really short sentences and then
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}it just turns over to English because it's easier.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Interviewer: ] So anything else to say about literacy in other languages or?
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Kristine: ] Literacy in other languages in other languages is very important
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}because it helps unite the world and it helps keep cultures alive.
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{font:Arial}{size:14}{Plain}{textColor:65535, 65535, 65535}[ Interviewer: ] Well, thank you Kristine. [ Kristine: ] You're welcome.
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