Bilingual
I've always been bilingual. As an Indian born in America, from the moment I started school I was exposed to two different cultures—my Indian heritage at home and the English language at school. Being completely fluent in Telugu when I was younger was a quality I wish I still had, instead as I continued going through the American school system I started losing that fluency, becoming a master in Tenglish. I combined most sentences into one mixed language, Telugu and English. It pained me when I had to often glance at the subtitles of Tollywood movies when they spoke too fast or had to guess the meaning of what my family members were saying cause I couldn't grasp everything. Unfortunately, I slowly passed this decrease in the fluency of my mother tongue onto my brother, who I spoke a great deal of English around, due to the English I was exposed to at school versus the Telugu my parents consistently spoke around me. I often feel sorry for my brother for this deficiency in languag...