Pero, puedo hablar Espanol.
I knew that studying Spanish for six years would come in handy. My father started me in the language early, but he mostly used it to cuss when he hit his thumb with a hammer.
Manufacturing in my city is dominated by immigrants. Most are from Mexico, but you will find a lot of Eastern Europeans, Vietnamese, etc. as well.
A couple of my ex-cons went straight, but the majority had a problem changing their drug dealing ways.
No point in learning to speak spanish to people who simply refused to speak english despite knowing how.
As one of my American Hispanic co workers told me. “They speak english, just not to you” They spoke english to him because they saw him as “one of theirs”. He wasn’t, he was an American.