Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández represents the 3rd Congressional District of New Mexico. She serves on the House Rules Committee and the Committee on Natural Resources and is chair of the Democratic Women's Caucus. New Mexico’s Bilingual Multicultural Education Act (BMEA) of 1973 was the country’s first legislation intended to honor multilingual and multicultural identity.
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New Mexico State Capitol building, inaugurated 1966. Jim Bowen. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
I love the enthusiasm! Since we have no ‘official’ language let’s teach and embrace them all!!
I am in awe of multilingual people! Wayback in yesteryears, I "had to choose" either French or Spanish in school. I choose Spanish and even though I was fascinated by 'foreign languages' I just could not get the grammar rules and barely (& I mean Barely passed 'D--') Heck, I still have problems with English grammar rules!
My grandparents did speak a germanic dialect. However my parents asked them to only speak English because that was 'Merican'. So I missed out.
So go go multilingual folks! And know that if I stare its because I am in awe of your amazing abilities!