Spanish

Speaking and reading in a language is a privilege, one that I hadn’t acknowledged until now. So when I started reading more in Spanish, it no longer felt like a chore. It felt like every time I did, I was making my mother and Aya proud.

Cuando la naturaleza pasa / Fuera de nuestra ventana / ¿Ves tu reflejo? / ¿Es la ventana tu espejo?

In 2019, the Berkeley Public Library asked Berkeley residents for feedback on its services. Community members responded that they wanted the library to launch a cooking collection – and the library delivered. Now, niche cooking tools like air fryers, ice cream makers and special pans are available for checkout in the Berkeley Tool Lending Library. 

San Francisco Exploratorium’s new exhibit called ‘¡Plantásticas!’ runs from May to September and introduces visitors to the world of plants through an immersive experience.

On my first day, I had the stunning realization that I was the culmination of all of my parents’ and siblings' efforts. I felt, with a terrifying clarity, that I had to make something extraordinary of their efforts.

When you see my name on a name tag or written somewhere, I get that you’ll likely use the English pronunciation. You can’t know how I say my name until I tell you.

Coming to Berkeley, I was scared of losing something as essential to my identity as my heritage. And to be quite frank, at times I feel like I have lost parts of it. Yet, I also know that the love I have for my raíces has never been stronger. 

Spanglish was spoken inside my home as a kid. I never minded the gaps where my English filled the spaces in my mother’s native tongue. By the time I reached the peak of growing pains, suddenly the gaps in my speech mattered.

In recent years, Latinx and Chicanx students have made up a greater percentage of UC Berkeley’s transfer admit classes than its freshman admit classes — in the 2022-2023 cycle, nearly 30% of all admitted Latinx and Chicanx students were transfers.

Some members of the UC Berkeley community recently took to Twitter to express their discontentment with campus’s “English Pronunciation Workshop,” offered once a semester through the International Office.