Friday, May 10, 2002
Even Learning Spanish May Not Be Enough in Miami
Another e-mail:
"This had also happened to a friend of mine who applied for a job in Miami and was told he had to speak Spanish. Well, he went to school to learn Spanish and then went back to that same job and was told it had to be Cuban Spanish which was different."
There are real differences between Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Mexican Spanish. So even if Zita Wilensky was allowed to finish her Spanish classes, she still may have had trouble understanding some callers, just as a speaker of Cuban Spanish might have with an upset speaker of Puerto Rican Spanish who called the Miami-Dade Domestic Violence Hotline.
|posted by Jim on 6:49 PM|
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