Chicago — Vanessa Avalos grew up in Logan Square, and did not learn Spanish as a child. However, Vanessa and her brother made it their mission to learn the language of their ancestors when they came of age. When Avalos had her children, she decided to take a different approach from her parents. “When we started having children, I realized that if I didn’t do my best to make them bilingual, they would lose our culture and our language,” Avalos said. To help her children become bilingual, Avalos would take…
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