Hola Carol  :)

Friday December 06 2002 19:58, Carol Shenkenberger decˇa a Felipe T. Dorado:

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

 CS>> parts.  I cant /speak/ spanish at all, but I have taken classes

 FTD>> If you allow me a bit of advice, listening to a language will help you
 FTD>> a lot. And in your case I would recommend Spanish (from Spain) in the

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

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

 CS> Some place left in my brain, is a nominal true level to speak
 CS> 'spanish' that can quickly come back to life if I lived in a
 CS> spanish speaking country

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

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

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

 CS> I do not pretend to be fluent now or even as a kid, but I

 CS> While my words were *simple* and childlike, I recall ability that had me
 CS> think in Spanish when I was a kid whrn I was playing with a playmate who
 CS> used spanish more than english (or had no english).

 CS> Today, I can barely wrap around 'hola' but I am sure it's buried in there
 CS> still just awaiting 'immersion' in a spanish speaking place to come out!

Sure it would/will :)   Trying it out, for a laugh, from time to time, like
hearing (not listening to) some radio station in the background for an hour
or so could give you some surprises  :)


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

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

Felipe  :)

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