Anna immigrated to the United States from China. She is now 49 years old and has been in the country for approximately 25 years. She commented that she because she had to work so much she didn’t have the time to learn English:
You hear so many stories about immigrants learning English and passing the citizenship test. […] There was no time for me to do anything besides work. Every day, wake up, eat, go to work, come home, eat, then sleep. That was how life was every day since I got out from that [immigration] prison. I had a few friends who got into these programs that taught them English, but that was during the weekends. I had to work. There was just no time to do it.”
