What was that? You know I don’t speak Spanish Baxter:

Speaking Spanish is difficult. My speaking of Spanish is compounded by 4 things.
1) When I did my one year of Spanish at school, my teacher was French.
2) I learnt Spanish Spanish 5 years ago, not Mexican Spanish.
3) My weird ability in English to think one thing and say a totally different word seems to be manifesting itself here. It results in some interesting sentences.
4) Mexicans speak really quickly and slur their words together. Sometimes I have no idea what they’re saying.
As a result, my apologetic vocabulary is broadening rapidly. I now have a million ways of saying – ‘I haven’t got the foggiest idea what you’re saying’. I’m also getting good at interpreting body language and pretending to understand what they’re saying. I then ask Todd what they were saying. It’s amusing when he doesn’t know either!
If I have the unfortunate pleasure of having to communicate back, at the moment, I employ my own brand of ‘Esp-inglés’. That is, if I don’t know a word I think what it might sounds like when pronounced in Spanish and go for it. You’d be surprised just how many words you can guess that way.