*** 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> follow the
 CS> gist of some parts of your translation and didnt see anything odd
 CS> parts.  I cant /speak/ spanish at all, but I have taken classes in school
 CS> and retained a bit of it.  Just enough to get a gist of a subject.

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
FTD> same way I recommend English from Europe. It makes so much easier to l
FTD> the language and adapt it to other pronunciations and variants.

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

Some place left in my brain, is a nominal true level to speak 'spanish'
that ¨can quickly come back to life if I lived in a spanish speaking
country (I tried ¨to get Rota Spain vice Sasebo Japan but it didnt work
out).  I do not pretend ¨to be fluent now or even as a kid, but I was able
to get by when I was 4-11 ¨years of age then lost it due to lack of anyone
to talk it to.

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

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

FTD> Great!   I sent it to Bob so he distributes it however he thinks fit.
FTD> Once he does it we'll all get.  But if you are in a hurry I can send i
FTD> to you by ... email!  Yes I do use email  };))   Well, sometimes ;)

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

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