Spanglish is an informal language with no structure or rules.

It is not considered creole, or a

dialect of Spanish and it is not considered a language of its own, although people claim they are
native Spanglish speakers. Is spoken in English or Spanish with high influence of both languages.
Spanglish is an exchange of language between English and Spanish, which is present in the
heavy influence in the words and phrases used by the speakers.

Spanglish is currently considered a hybrid language by linguists—many refer to Spanglish as

“Spanish-English code-switching”, most words are borrowed and changed as well as
grammatical and lexical terms as well.

Spanglish is due to native Spanish speaking derived from Latin American people into North
America, specifically the United States of America. As mentioned previously, the phenomenon
of Spanglish can be separated into two different categories: code switching, borrowing, lexical
and grammatical shifts. Codeswitching has sparked controversy because it is seen “as a
corruption of Spanish and English, a ‘linguistic pollution’ or ‘the language of a “raced”,
underclass people'”. For example, a fluent bilingual speaker addressing another bilingual
speaker might engage in code switching with the sentence, “I’m sorry I cannot attend next
week’s meeting porque tengo una obligación de negocios en Boston, pero espero que I’ll be
back for the meeting the week after”—which means, “I’m sorry I cannot attend next week’s
meeting because I have a business obligation in Boston, but I hope to be back for the meeting
the week after”.

So, people that speak Spanglish speak first in English and in the middle of the phrase switch to
Spanish and so on, like the example provided.
One example of a film that Spanglish is spoken on is Spanglish.
This is a film that tells the story of a Mexican woman and her daughter who travel all the way to
Los Angeles to bring sanity to a crazy Anglo family.
When a Mexican mother and her daughter came to the United States, the mother, Flor
Moreno, gets a job as a maid at the home of a successful chef John Clasky, his insecure wife
Deborah, their two children, and Deborah's mother. Despite Flor's lack of an English language
vocabulary, she tries the best she can to assist the Clasky family in more than just house
cleaning matters. However, when Flor is forced to live with the family over the summer, she has
no choice but to bring her daughter, Christina along. Deborah, much to Flor's dislike, treats
Flor's daughter much like her own and at the same time she hurts the feelings of her own
daughter, Bernice, as well as Flor. When John's dreams begin to unravel, he begins to feel like
his whole world is coming down around him, but with the love of his children and with the help
of Flor, he finds himself trying to get through it all. Flor's daughter Christina, through which this
story is told in a college letter to Princeton University, serves as a translator for the beginning of
the film, but after Flor breaks the communication bridge by learning to speak English, Christina
must learn that things come and go in life, but family is the most important thing a person can
have.
Here we have a part of the film that shows the difficulties that Flor have Spanglish (2004) -
Hypocritical Scene (3/10) | Movieclips