THE SECRET LANGUAGE (Daisy Zamora)

1. PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF LEARNING E

1.1. PASSION ORIGIN

1.1.1. grandmother's story about living in New Orleans

1.1.2. dramatic & direct

1.1.3. mysterious English words

1.1.4. strange music, exotic melody

1.2. DIFFERENCES OF ACADEMIC & SPOKEN E

1.2.1. academic: lacked charm, tiresome, repetitious, dumb, monotonous

1.2.2. spoken: possessed varied registers, cryptic, fantastic, enigmatic, seductive

1.3. OTHER WAYS OF SPEAKING

1.3.1. cartoons

1.3.1.1. metaphors

1.3.2. cowboy movies

1.3.3. baseball plays

1.4. Literature classes: favourite

1.5. PASSION OF LEARNING E

1.5.1. invading thoughts & appearing in dreams

1.5.2. intense reading

1.5.3. music lover

2. EXPERIENCE WITH EVERYDAY LIFE E

2.1. on school vacations in Middletown, Connecticut (US)

2.2. shock from the language

2.2.1. strange to evrbd

2.2.2. natives' E in teenage slangs --> unintelligible

2.2.3. her: weirdo, spoke like a philosopher

2.2.4. literature & songs worthless in practical E

2.2.5. vocab fr books & poetry no place in evrday speech of her contemp.

3. REFORMING E MANNERS

3.1. paying extreme attention to expressions & words

3.2. trying to adapt her way of speaking

3.3. imitating others

3.4. if not: left out on the fringes of the main current