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Originally Posted by Zeke
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."
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We have a bunch of youngins fresh out of school who take a minimum wage job in "guest services" to put something on the resume. Basically they stand around and tell guests where to go (in a nice way).
I was working near the entrance to the pavilion and a young Latino girl was greeting and giving directions when a well dressed couple and their child walk up and start chatting to her in Spanish, she looked a little panicked but gave them the info they were looking for. Then turned to me and said "those people are from Spain, I could barely understand them!"
And +1 on speed... when I try to talk to someone in Spanish they take off at a thousand miles an hour.