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El Testimonio: The Latino Memoir

May 31, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

Every once in a while, I do a Spanish podcast on The Writing Bull. This is a little cut of me recording it, in my

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The Rules of Racism: You Can Only Speak One Language (and it damn well better be English)

February 6, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

In class, I teach how creative writing can rouse memory, strong emotions, sharp images, and that, if a student keeps writing, she will surprise herself

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Learning Spanish? Fear Not the Subjunctive!

February 3, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

When I threw myself into Central America, after having lived a monolingual childhood in Tennessee, I attacked the subjunctive. It’s the conjugation that twists up

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Escaping the Monolingual Cage of America

February 1, 2018 Marcos McPeek Villatoro

According to the above photo, I’d been out drinking the night before. I don’t know what my first Spanish word was, but I do recall

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