So I am trying to rehash what I learnt about a decade ago. Spanish is right there next to English in terms of popularity, at least in my neck of the woods. After years of being wide eyed and shaking my head rapidly to utter "no espana", I think its high time I try to learn something at which I am not adept.
I remember some words and phrases. I recall getting good grades in Spanish back in high school. Even so, it was awful when I opted to start with basics -the alphabet, and a native spanish speaker thought that for the letter "J" I was making a slang reference to female genitalia!!!!! Embarassing! I mean how do I make jota sound like chocha. Gosh, can I blame my West Indian Accent? I thought that was supposed to help!
So even though I think I can zoom through the first CD, with basic vocab, I should probably brush up on my pronunciation. Reminds me of when I tried to be fresh and call a Puerto Rican guy an idiot and wound up calling him bendejo instead of pendejo.........Uh that was only this past November. At least he was laughing and not mad. Gosh I think I have a lot of work to do........Shucks at least I can curse in hindi with confidence, Lan ki pikar ki...........
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