Outside of school my heritage language was very useful because my family speaks Spanish so I was able to continue communicating with them and expand my two languages. My family also attended church in Spanish which helped me to understand what was going on and because I went to Sunday school for some time, Spanish also helped because it was only in Spanish. Growing up my parents would also need help translating some things in English, so being able to speak both languages helped sometimes when I was able to correctly translate or describe things for my parents.
