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[QUOTE="rappahannock_rev, post: 753350, member: 16153"] I grew up, a "[I]Norteamericano[/I]", in Mexico City in the 1960s -- and there I encountered two flavors of "Spanish". [B]On the streets[/B] I learned a kind of Mexican gutter Spanish, and that largely dictates how I speak even now, in my dotage. I still have the Mexico City slang, the cadences, the accents, down pat..... When I first visted SdeC in 1977, I was puzzled and amused to be asked several times if I was Puerto Rican (?!?) -- and I'm about as "Anglo" as a man can be! ... But [B]in the classroom[/B] my instructor (who endlessly bragged that she had been born in Cartagena, Spain) insisted that we were studying not "Spanish" but, rather, "Castilian." And through her I engrained a reluctance to use the term "Spanish." ... And so, on the Camino, I take pains to say to the locals, whenever circumstances justify it, that [I]"Entiendo un poco de Castellano." [/I]Their appreciation is immediate, and visible! (Still can't do the lisp....) [/QUOTE]
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