westla24_m asked:
I was recently speaking to a Mexican woman that I work with, who has lived in this country since she was 2 yet her English is pretty basic. I asked her what the infinitive form of a verb was and she seemed confused. I said, “you know, such as estar is the infinitive for estoy, estas, esta, etc.” She then sort of hesitantly agreed - which made me think that many of them may not know Spanish grammar since they only learned to speak it from their parents and didn’t have Spanish grammar lessons in school. I just always kind of guessed that they mostly were literate in Spanish but now I kind of wonder. Any ideas?
I was recently speaking to a Mexican woman that I work with, who has lived in this country since she was 2 yet her English is pretty basic. I asked her what the infinitive form of a verb was and she seemed confused. I said, “you know, such as estar is the infinitive for estoy, estas, esta, etc.” She then sort of hesitantly agreed - which made me think that many of them may not know Spanish grammar since they only learned to speak it from their parents and didn’t have Spanish grammar lessons in school. I just always kind of guessed that they mostly were literate in Spanish but now I kind of wonder. Any ideas?
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