The other day while speaking with one of my long term Spanish tutors via Skype I made the comment that my Spanish was too poor to have been studying the language for as long as I have.
A few days later he sent me his video. The comment basically translates as “imagine you have been studying English for 5 years and you ended up speaking like this guy.”
Of course he sounds like every other good old boy I have ever known in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas or Missouri. One of my self-deprecating jokes is that I speak Spanish with a Southern accent, and it is not from the south of Spain.
Years ago I wrote a blog posting My Chinese Nightmare that was a take on this theme.
And so it goes.