Joanna
John Adams wrote:
> On May 21, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>> Many of us have acquired at least a reading knowledge of Spanish
>
>
> Any suggestions from anyone out there on how to get a better grasp of
> Spanish in my spare time? My Spanish is really lousy and rusty, though
> I did have some conversations (or so they seemed to me--god knows what
> the other conversants, who do speak Spanish, thought) in it the last
> time I was in San Fran.
>
> Interestingly, I've never had such a conversation here in northwest
> Arkansas. I wonder if that's just me, or if there's some larger
> issue--that so many of the local workers were recruited by
> corporations who (presumably) had a preference for people who spoke
> English, or that there's much assimilationist thought here, or just
> where in San Fran I was, or what?
>
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