Espanglish

The hybrid language of Spanglish has been increasing in popularity. I'm definitely guilty of using it everyday. I learned Spanish first but now it seems that it's escaping me. I find myself filling in my Spanish with English words and when talking to my parents this sometimes becomes a problem. I start to beat around the bush looking for the word and end up just giving the English equivalent. 

A problem I see when myself and others use Spanglish is that we pronounce some of the words in the other language. 

       

While it may not come up often it's pretty funny when it happens, usually it arises when someone is reading not actually speaking off the top of their head. I sometimes say things wrong because of Spanish when I'm speaking English. For example I say Portugal how it's said in Spanish rather than the English form. Sometimes I say the word video as Bideo and I get called out for it...

The usage of Spanglish doesn't necessarily bother me because I know the struggle of being bilingual. I more or less just get a kick out of it because of how dysfunctional it sometimes sounds. It's just interesting to see how two languages come together and somehow work.