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As the world we live in becomes more globalized, people tend to expand their language skills and are inclined to learning more than one language more than ever before. A problem that is becoming more frequent as a result of this globalization and the sudden increase in the number of languages a person learns is that people (especially of a younger age) are losing their ability to speak the family language (in the case of immigrant families). I introduce this issue in the personal narrative “Parleró Italiano” I wrote in Project 1 and discuss it in more depth in Project 2 as I relate these issues with the work done by Suresh Canagarajah in Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations in an attempt to resolve the personal issues introduced in “Parleró Italiano”. This led me to the question “how can the inability to speak the language spoken by the family to set one apart from one’s own culture?” which I will attempt to answer after considering the opinion of scholars on the matter, and hopefully, resolve the emotional struggle I am having.