Here in GA (where my sister teaches and she has a gringo accent from hell with all sorts of errors in her speech), it’s awful! They hire Mexicans who weren’t born here but have all of the bad habits of slang and improper usage of articles and even tenses. Spanish “text talk” is actually being used in publik skools.
Latin should be mandatory for anybody wishing to learn a a Romance Language.
There was reason, and one reason only that I chose Spanish instead of Latin as my 2nd foreign language in HS was because of the nun that taught it - she and I didn’t get along in the least. I had no choice with her for music and religion, I sure as heck wasn’t going to willingly choose to take one of her classes
In H my Spanish teacher was from Ecuador, but had been educated in Spain, she was a lot of fun and did teach us a bit of slang for fun. She also understood it was difficult for many of us taking French 3 and Spanish 1 at the same time and was pretty lenient on us when we used a French word instead of the Spanish word, as long as it was the proper word and in the correct usage.