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Foreword Ray Suarez xi
Introduction Tom Miller xv
Acknowledgments xix
Part 1
Learning English with Shotaro Ruth Behar 3
Mississippi, Girdles, and John Wooden Gabriel Rozman 9
Trilingual Ease Franc J. Camara 13
Power Marie Arana 19
Guillermo Cabrera Infante in the Wonderland of English Suzanne Jill Levine 25
Pura Bicultura Coco Fusco 29
Aria Richard Rodriguez 33
Learning English by the Sinatra Method Jose Serrano 37
From English Gentleman to Zelig Alvaro Vargas Llosa 39
The Way of the Dinosaurs Rafael Campo 45
My Two Tongues / Mis dos lenguas: On How I Came to Have a Forked Tongue Liliana Valenzuela 53
Don Francisco's Six Steps to Better English Mario Kreutzberger ("Don Francisco") 59
What Happened to Our Old Life? Gigi Anders 63
Baseball Taught Me English Orlando Cepeda 67
Ghost Boy Francisco Goldman 69
The Special English Girls Gioconda Belli 77
From Montevideo to Saginaw in One Easy Lesson Nando Parrado 83
English: My Passport to Poetry and Theatre, Science and Life Walter Mercado 87
When I Was a Little Cuban Boy Richard Blanco 91
Part 2
Yellow Magazine Elena Poniatowska 95
The Learning Curve Ruben Martinez 99
A Subtitled Life Enrique Fernandez 105
Shaping Language Enrique Martinez Celaya 111
The Ultimate Challenge Paquito D'Rivera 115
The Mexicans Who Speak English (Collected by Americo Paredes) Anonymous 121
Dangerous English Johanna Castillo 123
Ay Doan Peek Eenglee; or, No me pica la ingle (My Groin Doesn't Itch) Jose Kozer 125
Amerika, America Ilan Stavans 131
Jose Manue...You Don't Know No English Jesus Vega 135
The Tremendous Assimilation Happened to Me Piri Thomas 139
Once Upon a Time on the Border Gabriel Trujillo Munoz 141
Better English through Unions Byron Silva 149
English Helped My Golf Lorena Ochoa 153
My Stepmother Tongue Patricia de Santana Pinho 157
From Basic Training to Fluent English Jose Bajandas 163
The Secret Language Daisy Zamora 167
Fluid, Dynamic, and Mischievous Miguel Barnet 173
My Tongue Is Divided into Two Quique Aviles 175
Part 3
The Blessings of Arroz con Mango Cristina Saralegui 185
Who Knew Desi Arnaz Wasn't White? H. G. Carrillo 189
Wordsranintoeachother Esmeralda Santiago 197
Really Josefina Lopez 201
English Lessons and the Berlitz System German Arciniegas 203
Soda and Nylons-Learning English Was No Pignic Guillermo Linares 209
Good Food and a Good Fastball Taught Me English Juan Marichal 213
Breaking Down the Glass Walls of Language Ariel Dorfman 217
How I Learned English...or Did I? Mayra Montero 221
Nothing Seemed Unreachable after Traveling through Europe in a Used Red Lada Alejandro Necochea 225
Doris Day, John Kennedy, and Me Teresa Mendez-Faith 229
Advantages of the Civilized World Oscar Hijuelos 235
El Dobbing and My English Ignacio Padilla 237
Writing in Between Rosario Ferre 241
Pink Floyd Taught Me English Roberto Quesada 247
The Trouble with English Gloria Lopez-Stafford 251
My Cuban Parents Learn English in Night School Virgil Suarez 257
English Is Cuh-ray-zee Richard Lederer Josh White Jr. 259
Afterword Frank McCourt 261
Translators 265
Copyrights/Permissions 266
About the Editor 268
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