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To: gleeaikin

I learned some Spanish in my Carny years when I had to call the Latinos to my ride st the Western fairs. I never cared for the language, though. It seems to be expressive the way a machine gun is expressive.There are languages that are spoken faster- Vietnamese goes out at more syllables per second- but few with that level machine like patter.


75 posted on 10/07/2018 11:27:19 AM PDT by ThanhPhero
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To: ThanhPhero; cll; All

The kind of Spanish that is likely to be spoken at Western fairs is probably quite different than the kind of Spanish I have heard spoken by college educated Spanish speakers that I have meet from time to time or who I spoke with during the 9 years I worked for and NGO with offices and personnel from 17 Central and South American Countries and the Caribbean Islands. There are distinct differences i rate of speech, slang and even pronunciation from the many different places and education levels that speak Spanish. The same occurs with the various Arabic speaking countries.


76 posted on 10/08/2018 10:36:29 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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