I worked in Texas early on in the food business, manager of serveral Wyatts Cafeterias..... learned a great deal of spanish there, mostly slang, or low class ?? stuff, I can talk to you for hours about cleaning the dishes or scrubbing the floors, but that was about my limits, and then I married a my Ex who's 1st language was Spanish... higher class.... she corrected my mangled spanish, and laughed at me alot
and I was though very pleased that my son with her would be bilingual, but he was resistant to the language if you can believe that! We had a live in housekeeper/baby sitter for the 1st 2 years of his life and she was from El Salvador and only spoke spanish, my Ex's kids were fluent, but by the time my son was 2 he only knew botaya, cubachas, and ulmblego.....
And thus is my story, I can speak it but unfortunently because of how I learned it, by doing instead of studying it, I have only a very small idea of how most words are spelled, terrible isn't it?
I'm illiterit when it comes to spanish.... Ich spreche Deutch, ein biechen! Perro, no me puedo espano! 4 years of German in high school. And I started learning Russian a few years ago but once I got passed the basics of Kot de va? and Dobre Utra and all the small talk phrases, I got really busy in life with ice skating, work and over time, and my son and that kinda went by the wayside..
I still have the tapes, vidios and books I bought in my inital enthusiasm!!
So there you have it, an illiterate spanish speaker who does a good job of over hearing conversations, and who has some bad habits syntext wise, a former German speaker and writer, who would have to immerse myself into Germany for 6 week to get it back, (sounds like fun!) and a wanna be Russain speaker!
Yep, that's me!
Later,
Carl
Que Bueno!
Supercow just have a question for ya
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I could just barely keep up!
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