Immigrant Parent: A Language Barrier

Language barrier. The difficulty of having an immigrant parent is the language barrier. My mother had to struggle when transitioning from Spanish to English. Being raised in a Spanish speaking home and attending an English speaking school was tough. I soon gave up on Spanish because I needed to translate for my mother in everyday life. Throughout elementary school, it was as if both my mother and I had to learn English. Slowly, but surely, we persevered and began to practice and master the beast of a language with its complex vocabulary and special “laws” of grammar.
Persevering through the seemingly unconquerable moments allowed my mother to get better paying jobs and eventually lead her to buying us plane tickets to Peru to visit my grandparents.