oh yeah. My BestFriend (male) is as white-washed as me and his parents are from mexico. it's pretty funny. but it is hard being made fun of, esp when you start speaking spanish.
that you sound like a gringa?
I have the accents down right in spanish but just in general....i sound like a blond haired blue eyed chick.
I dont even have all the accents down...pathetic!
no not pathetic. its just that our first language is english, we were raised on that and besides we're in america, we should be speaking english! LOL
on a funny note, our warehouse mgr's name is Pedro, so i was talking a little to him in spanish and when i called him i wanted to use the accents in the proper place (pe-dro) but instead i ended up calling him perro (a dog) LOL
we have a town near us called buena - i thought it was pronounced the spanish way, but the locals pronounce it like tuna. weird!
that is strange. can you imagine living in a town called "buna"??
ROFL this cracked me up...the "d" that sounds like a "th" and the hard "rrrr" girl, that's complicated word!
oh yeah he was laughing so hard. not to mention the others that were around....i was deemed a "pocha" meaning a white mexican. they got no love for us! LOL