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baby and toddler. It’s much more natural than memorizing words from a book.
In the Advanced Spanish of our second year, we continued to assimilate additional vocabulary and grammar, and Mrs. Fassler with my friends, working part-time in a neighborhood bodega (a small grocery store specializing in Hispanic items). I collected records with the irresistable Latin beat, enjoying Edye Gorme and Trio Los Panchos, the rival Titos (Puente and Rodríguez), and perhaps the best known, Xavier Cugat. I even became familiar with the mysterious and often misunderstood religion born introduced us to poetry and literature. This class in an all-girls’ school thrilled to the beautiful love poetry of José Ángel Buesa and wept at the end of “Marianela” when the title character died of a broken heart. By this time, I was hooked. And although I never studied Spanish any further (that was my senior year in high school), I have never lost my enjoyment of all the pleasures that facility in a second language brings. An additional high school class in French never engendered in me the same feelings as my Spanish class did, in spite (or maybe because) of a French-Canadian background. (The Russian I years almost did, but, again, that’s another story).I continued using my Spanish
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