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Originally Posted by Paco Anton
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And that right there folks is why you can learn to speak Spanish from lessons and you might be understood in Spain's parliament or the
Cortes Generales. But on the streets of this country, good luck.
She speaks of idioms... and then there's Spanglish. Also Mexican slang. Knowing how to speak Spanish as it's spoken around here would be like going way up into the Appalachian mountains to learn English.
I loved the one about
pan comido or "piece of cake."