Timothy

My name is Timothy. While I did study Spanish at Union High School in Union Grove, WI, I also worked on a cabbage farm on the outskirts of town where I met and befriended various Mexican agricultural workers. I spoke Spanish with them every day and Ilearned colloquial Mexican Spanish as well as experiencing Mexican music, food and customs. After graduating from UW Parkside, I worked at a community basedorganization called the Spanish Center in both Kenosha and Racine, Wisconsin. There, I interpreted for monolingual Spanish speakers at medical and legal appointments. I also helped the people complete forms and advocated for them at government and private offices. I later performed very similar duties at an organization called Catholic Charities throughout southeastern Wisconsin. I taught Spanish language, literature and culture at a private high school for some three years. I have worked as an individual tutor as well at different periods in my career. My wife (who is from Guuanajuato, Mexico) and I speak Spanish at home, and I also speak Spanish often with my in-laws, who speak a very colloquial Spanish of Central Mexico. For the past ten years I have worked as an interpreter and translator for the local school district. I have dedicated my entire professional, and agreat portion of my private life to the practice, use and acquisition of the Spanish language. It is a constant theme in my life which I love and about which I am very passionate.

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