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Español, Castellano, Rioplatense and other traps for Gringos…

Posted by The Southron on September 21st, 2008

From time to time I have wished that I had studied Spanish in school instead of German.  After all, my opportunities for saying, “Guten Tag! Wie geht es Ihnen.” are very limited here–and my German is not good enough to pass myself off as a long lost member of Odessa in Brazil. Nevertheless, in moments [...]


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