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I try my best to understand what they are saying, trying to keep up with their rapid cadences, their idioms and slang—piecing together what I can readily understand and what I’ve learned in Spanish I, Spanish II and Spanish III in high school and college. But it’s so hard. It’s like my brain and my tongue just don’t want to cooperate with me. It has become my life-long handicap.

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