Barely. When we lived on the Big Island of Hawaii my neighbor and best friend was a Mexican who has become a naturalized citizen. His written English wasn't great so I would help him filling out forms, taxes and such. After he's get off work he'd come knock on my door to drink a michelada, and we'd converse and kick back "descansada" and speak to each other with a mixture of broken English and broken Spanish - "Spanglish". I'm not even close to being conversant though.
Barely. When we lived on the Big Island of Hawaii my neighbor and best friend was a Mexican who has become a naturalized citizen. His written English wasn't great so I would help him filling out forms, taxes and such. After he's get off work he'd come knock on my door to drink a michelada, and we'd converse and kick back "descansada" and speak to each other with a mixture of broken English and broken Spanish - "Spanglish". I'm not even close to being conversant though.
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