missed the bus - thank goodness!

[songbird44]

So I have a Cuban neurologist crashing at my house for a few nights. This morning, I decided I wanted to make cafecito (Cuban coffee) for him, so I got the espresso maker going. At 8:05, Graham decided he couldn't wait around any more, so he started out to the bus stop...only to find that the school bus was just leaving! Panic time! Suddenly I had

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Another one from the Fishies

[anonymous]

I go to church in a Spanish-speaking congregation, and the hardest thing to get used to has been the wide variety of accents. We have members from Mexico, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador... I've found myself dropping Ses and/or whole syllables, depending on whom I'm speaking with. My brother served a two-year Mormon mission in Bolivia and often says that Bolivian is an altogether different language from Spanish. :-) I wonder if there's a "standard" Spanish like news broadcaster English or Hochdeutsch?

Re: Another one from the Fishies

[songbird44]

That's an interesting question. I can try asking Dr. Tony, but since he's in Cuba, he may not be exposed to international-type news broadcasts.