Michael Ibeke, the author of “Language Learning,” is a senior undergraduate student at UTA studying Biology with a minor in Spanish and a certificate in Medical Humanities. “For all of these reasons that I mentioned in my article I decided to become trilingual in English, Spanish, and a Nigerian language of mine called Igbo. These three languages have a personal relevance to my life. My parents are Nigerian-born immigrants, and they are fluent in English and Igbo. In June 2018, I started to take learning Igbo a lot more seriously. I went to Nigeria, where I was around so many people that spoke Igbo, which was why I made an effort to start my journey to fluency in the Igbo language. I also started learning Spanish last fall semester at UT Arlington. I decided to get my minor in Spanish because I plan to go to medical school in Texas and to continue on to practice medicine in Texas when I become a doctor. I am making an effort to become fluent in Spanish because I realize that when I get done with school, the Spanish-speaking population in Texas will have doubled. I do plan on learning more languages in the future as well.”
