*** Quoting Felipe T. Dorado from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS>> BTW, I can read a little spanish.  Not well, but I was able to

 CS> Ohh sorry!  I cant understand spoken Spain spanish well at all.
 CS> in Miami Florida so my verbal exposure is mostly Cuban.  My 'acce
 CS> a teacher wild when I moved to Virginia and took a spanish class.

FTD> Ah, so you have a background :)   I can imagine that teacher's face };
FTD> Cubans do sound a little ... funny? to us  :)  And then there are Mexi
FTD> Venezuelans, Argentinians ...  :)  We must sound really
"hard" to them

Well, different enough that my then almost (though child worded) fluent
spanish ¨just couldnt make any sense of what she said for a long time.
Sadly the teacher ¨seemed to have a 'chip on her shoulder' over her version
of pure pronounciation ¨and since that was 1/2 the grade, I barely passed
the year.  I think this has ¨more to do with myt 'forgetting' than anything
else.  She made me, for a long ¨time, not want to remember that year in her
class and with it, went my ¨spanish.

 CS> 'spanish' that can quickly come back to life if I lived in a
 CS> spanish speaking country

FTD> Yes that's what happens :)  It is something like riding or swimming.

Yes.  If i take another tour, perhaps I will get to Spain?

 CS> (I tried to get Rota Spain vice Sasebo Japan but it didnt work
 CS> out).

FTD> Much sunnier, and hotter too. Very similar to Miami ;)  It's about 250
FTD> Kms away from here. (Some of my countrymen would like that base not to
FTD> be there, to be frank with you. But I won't get into that ;)  )

Thats ok.  I understand.


FTD> [ proposal ]

 CS> I;ll get it easy from Bob as he's a link of mine.  Bless you!

FTD> Thank you. You probably already have it, I sent it to him the first of
FTD> this month.

Turned out to be wrong Bob.  Can you netmail a copy routed over?  I'll get
it ¨fine from your area I am sure.
                                       xxcarol

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