Reflection Originally born in the Philippines, Raphael is a twenty-one-year-old college student who has spoken not only Tagalog but also English his entire life. From my personal experiences, his family is deep within their culture and their ethnic background is fully represented in their celebrations and gatherings. The purpose of this interview was to touch on my curiosity of whether his language proficiency coincides with his cultural identity and for my classmates to take interest since Tagalog is not a popular language compared to others. To begin my interview, I firstly wanted to inform my readers about Rafael’s childhood and his experiences with language specifically. From Raphael’s responses, I could see that he learned naturalistically and was a participant of simultaneous multilingualism. According to Rowland, simultaneous multilingualism occurs when a person learns their multiple languages from birth simultaneously (2014). Rowland’s definition is supported in Raphael’s...