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Originally posted by Tommydogg:
They have joined the crowd at the local Publix that sends thier cash back home.

In this line they convert cash to Western Union transfers to other countries.

Do you realize that Puerto Rico is a US territory (so technically part of this country)...

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For fun some times I wear a US Border Patrol hat to buy lottery tickets! The last time I looked, a ICE hat was 26 bucks on Amazon.

... and that they're US citizens, so they're here legally, and have nothing to fear from Border Patrol or ICE?

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Originally posted by sunburn:

Spanish TV in Orlando schools 1960, I was in 2nd grade.

I was there in the sixties, but south Florida.

What WAS that TV-in-the-classroom Spanish teacher's name???

I can see her hand motions and hear her voice even now:

"¡Escuchar escuchar!"

" ¡Repetir repetir ! "

There's Spanish (Castilian) and then there's Puerto Rican Spanish, which is a guttural version, with fast and poor pronunciation. Many Spanish speaker claim PR to be "Ghetto" Spanish. The people I know in Puerto Rico, are well off, highly educated, and then there's the other class...I think the evacuees from the hurricane are the later and there's no Rosetta for that one. It's "Street" language.

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Originally posted by downtownv:
There's Spanish (Castilian) and then there's Puerto Rican Spanish, which is a guttural version, with fast and poor pronunciation. Many Spanish speaker claim PR to be "Ghetto" Spanish.

From what I've seen, the Mexicans and Puerto Ricans both say that about one another.

We also have a lot of Venezuelans and Colombians here.

Speaking some Mexican Spanish to Venezuelan friends, they look at me and ask, "what does that mean?"

I spent about 5 1/2 years in Puerto Rico, about half Navy time, then the rest as a design engineer for International Tel & Tel.

Later in life, I had an eighteen month project in Barcelona. When I tried to communicate in Spain, using the language that I had learned in Puerto Rico, I frequently received some confused looks.

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:

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Originally posted by Tommydogg:
They have joined the crowd at the local Publix that sends thier cash back home.

In this line they convert cash to Western Union transfers to other countries.

Do you realize that Puerto Rico is a US territory (so technically part of this country)...

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For fun some times I wear a US Border Patrol hat to buy lottery tickets! The last time I looked, a ICE hat was 26 bucks on Amazon.

... and that they're US citizens, so they're here legally, and have nothing to fear from Border Patrol or ICE?

True True!


I once dated a Puerto Rican girl for about 4 months or so. She barely understood english so we taught each other to speak in oir respective tongues. Since then I have tried that spanish with other Latinos and have been told that a good part of it is different. That was a wild and crazy time. Lupi was very loco!

I am a fan of the “Coffee Break” series of language lessons from Radio Lingua.

https://radiolingua.com/coffeebreakspanish/

Though, their lessons are primarily Castilian.

Acabo de tomar mi segunda lección en duolingo hoy.