Re: Apologetic for accent in English?! (was: Hello to you all!)

At 10:12 AM 3/11/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>         There is also a lot of animosity with the US school system because
>we are taught Castilian Spanish, "which no-one speaks". When I was trying to
>practice the Spanish I had learned (and eager, wide-eyed geek in high
>school), I so often encountered the attitude, "Your Spanish is horrible and
>it's not real Spanish so I will only speak English to you," that I just gave
>up. I was also told that, in those words, more than once.
>
In my high school, we were taught a generalized Central American Spanish (a
conlang of sorts?) -- the sort that leaves native speakers from all parts
of Latin America scratching their head and asking where exactly your
teacher was from. (My teacher was from Pittsburgh. *g*) I have friends from
Spain who speak Castilian Spanish to me, and I wouldn't dream of telling
them how odd it sounds to my ears. Of course, that isn't just a side effect
of education-- I hear many different varieties of Spanish from this
hemisphere spoken around me in public all the time.

Mia The Eavesdropper on Spanish Conversations, Just For Practice, I Swear.



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