Yurimi Grigsby
Yurimi Grigsby enseña en una universidad privada del Medio Oeste. Recibió su doctorado en Educación ESL de la Universidad de Tennessee.
Actualizado en noviembre de 2011
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My Experience with Heritage Language Loss in America
29 de noviembre de 2011 • Yurimi Grigsby
During one visit home with my mother, she was watching the Weather Channel. “I always watch Weather Channel,” she said, “All day.” I asked her why and then said it again in my rudimentary Japanese, “Nande?” She smiled at my linguistic offering and replied, “Wakaranai.” I had to ask her what that meant. She said, “Mean ‘I do not know’.” Because I only knew one Japanese word for the phrase ‘I don’t know,’ I said, “I thought that was ‘wakarimasen’.” …