It is rather the reverse of the situation in Chile circa 1972. There the intelligentsia were the supporters of Allende. Parents of one of our son's best friends only avoided having their brains blown out in the stadium because the wife, and artist, was having an exhibition in Caracas. Her husband was a TV newscaster and Allende supporter. The last I heard he was the city editor of "La Opinion", the largest Spanish language daily in L.A. He would have been much happier covering Latin America. Their son became an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
huele = smell
Verbs are definitely the hardest in Castellan, apart from that it is a very useful language. Vencit omnia veritas.
I had one year of high school Spanish and then spent a wonderful six weeks in a micro-bus traveling from Tucson to Guadalajara and back the summer of 1967. A field biologist friend had a commission to collect butterflies from any ecological niche in Mexico. We considered moving to the Lake Chapala area when we left L.A. but the wife has no ear for languages, so we moved to Arkansas, where she has learned to understand the local accent. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
