...in Spanish or English or both? In my book one of my character is Spanish. So far I have him going from Spanish to English as he speaks, but I don't know if it would be better for him to be speaking a word or two in Spanish per sentence or full Spanish?
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Sylvia, your question demonstrates that you are nowhere near ready to write a book, or even a short essay. You omit capitalization, punctuation, and required words. You need to read novels. Lots of novels. Any novels. Notice that they all have perfect spelling, perfect punctuation, perfect composition. Notice where they use one space and where they use two. Notice that every speaker in a dialog gets a new paragraph, and every paragraph is preceded by a blank line. Notice any writing techniques or figures of speech. Take notes so you know where you found what you know. It takes a lot of reading to be a writer.
To answer your question, it depends on your intended audience. Most Americans can cope with an occasional foreign word, but too many will cause loss of interest.