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This is my interview with my best friend Alexa ,who is bilingual. For this interview, I chose to use my best friend Alexa, who is a bilingual college student. Alexa’s mother language is Spanish and her second learned language is English. This interview really opened my eyes as to the struggles of someone who has learned more than one language at a relatively young age. During the interview she talked about the certain struggles she had to overcome when learning English and how it affected her school career and her family. Alexa learned Spanish prior to moving to Texas, where she then learned English. Alexa talked about how learning two languages had both its advantages and disadvantages, in life and in school. According to Alexa, learning her first language actually helped her learn her second one. This also helped her in school because she was able to connect her mother language vocabulary to the English language vocabulary. This connects to the theory that learning your first ...