A few years ago, two Tejanos were running for the Democratic nomination for governor. They had a debate in Spanish. One of the candidate’s forest language was English and the other guy’s was Spanish. The second taunted the first for his imperfect Spanish. Cruz is not fluent on the language but he knows Spanish. And his Father could talk rings around Rubio in Spanish.
Shesh. Not a great direction for this nation.
Cruz made me feel good about my Spanish. i alway thoght the accent I aquired in Mexico City was the worst. I envied the clarity of those from Columbia or even Bolivia. Now that I heard Cruz mangle it, I see it could be much worse..
I would be willing to be that you are wrong on that. Cruz is smart, and Spanish is not that difficult to learn. I would be very surprised if he has not been working on it assiduously, but quietly, for years. He also wouldn’t make a big thing about it because it’s a hole card.
Rafael is fluent in English, which he learned as a second language. Marco is bilingual, learning both as a child.
My maternal grandfather is like Rafael. He came to this country as a young man from Italy and learned English as a second language. My mother is like Marco, as she learned both English and Italian as a child.
If I may share an immigrant story, one day my aunt Angie (who was older than my mother by a few years) came home from school crying. She was taunted by her classmates because she didn’t speak English well. My grandfather announced from now on we will only speak English in this house. He said that in Italian.
One of my mother’s older brothers served with Patton’s Third Army during WWII, and another with the 82nd Airborne Division during that war. After the war was over, they found out that one had rescued the other at Bastogne.
The debate was staged in the woods?