Thanks, I got to Spanish 3 and only other experience is with some contractors in the field building houses many moons ago. But probably forgot more than I ever learned. Is there any difference in pronunciation with the accent?
Re pronunciation: there is no pronunciation difference between Él and el. There are huge differences in other situations. For instance. Hablo is present tense ‘I speak.’ Habló, with the accent and stress on the final vowel, is the past tense, he or she ‘spoke.’
For many years I taught GED classes in Spanish. All of the adult students had to be here legally. About 99.999% of them disliked the trespassers and invaders.