Miami is the second largest city in the United States with a Spanish-speaking majority (after El Paso, Texas). It is considered a truly bilingual city and is known as “The Capitol of Latin America.” People from all over Latin America and the Caribbean converge in this sprawling, southern Florida metropolis. While over half the population is Cuban, the Latine population is also largely reflected in its Puerto Rican, Dominican, Venezuelan, Guatemalan, Colombian, El Salvadoran, Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Honduran and Brazilian communities (among many, many other nationalities of the Spanish-speaking diaspora). As in other urban city centers in the United States, it is impossible to go anywhere in Miami without encountering another culture. The people I met in Miami all described the city as a melting pot, and that makes sense, since it has also welcomed immigrants from Haiti, the Bahamas, Jamaica, Barbados, and Japan, to name a few. The Miami dialect is what linguist Phillip Carter calls a new emerging American dialect. Because of the close proximity of Spanish to English in Miami, the rhythms, pronunciations, and even sayings in Spanish that are directly translated into English are what make the Miami dialect unique.