WakeandBake
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On the speaking English thing, I hearken back to something my Mom told me. She emigrated as an orphaned child during WWII from Nazi Germany with her brother and sister. She told me once here, she and her siblings made a conscious decision to speak English, even to one another. They didn't want to be identified as German, they wanted to be identified as American and completely immerse into American culture. It could have been because they were Jewish refugees which carried a stigma, I don't know, but I found it interesting and a pretty solid way of immigrating.