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Tucson Helps Immigrants in Need, May Ask Obama to Curb Deportations

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam7/06/2014 4:00:31 am PDT

re: #211 Justanotherhuman

As in, he took 3 yrs in HS and college?

When I was going to school in Miami, I took Spanish because I wanted to be able to speak it w/the Puerto Rican and Cuban kids I knew (who taught me the “cuss words”). It was all grammar and proper castellano, as the teacher explained. I did well in it, as I did in English, being the grammarian that I was tending to be at the time, but it didn’t help me very much on the street.

We learned Mexican Spanish at my school, but our teachers made sure we learned all the proper grammar and none of the “gutter’ Spanish. The first part helped a lot in college when I studied Spanish lit and had to write papers and be in class discussions. But not learning colloquial Spanish means I’d be a bit lost in everyday conversation for a while. My FB friends who are Spanish speakers use a kind of Spanish net speak that I have trouble understanding. Q for “que” is easy, though.

That’s why I suspect Dondero is not a native speaker of Spanish. His Spanish posts are too correct grammatically, the same as mine would be.