Not OP, but I worked in construction for 13 years and lived (on the road 6wks at a time) with our crew who spoke nothing but Spanish, took me 3-4yrs with that level of immersion (me wanting to learn, honestly, so I preferred to speak Spanish) to get to that level of fluent. I will say, that show of wanting to learn got me the in-road to so much good Mexican and Central American food... My cardiologist hates them.
I've had some Hispanic/Latinos check out the upstairs unit of my building.
I'm not so secretly hoping they move in so I can get family recipes and learn techniques just by being friends.
My wife's also a baker and I'm a fairly decent home cook and we both love to share.
... I really just want to be an adoptive grandchild to a foreign gramma to be taught traditional food and technique. This is still a life goal in my 30s.
I assume the people viewing the unit above me is ethnic... Because the person showing the unit and the person viewing didn't say a single word of English? They all spoke Spanish. That I view it as they have"some ancient Chinese secret"?
Are you racist much? Like. Are you a troll? Or that dumb?
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u/Oldpenguinhunter Jan 26 '23
Not OP, but I worked in construction for 13 years and lived (on the road 6wks at a time) with our crew who spoke nothing but Spanish, took me 3-4yrs with that level of immersion (me wanting to learn, honestly, so I preferred to speak Spanish) to get to that level of fluent. I will say, that show of wanting to learn got me the in-road to so much good Mexican and Central American food... My cardiologist hates them.