This is a true account of what happens when you take a phonics using little white farm girl to a Mexican Restaurant...
Luckily for Sweet Girl her big brother took a few years of Spanish in high school.
This is a small part of their conversation before ordering...
Fr- i- j -o -l-es...Sweet Girl doing her best to sound it out.
Frijoles are beans...you pronounce it free-ho-lays, in Spanish the 'j' says the 'h' sounds.
Why?
Because that is just what you do.
It makes it hard to read.
Not if you're Spanish.
Qu-e-s-a-d-i-l-a-s
That is pronounced cay-suh-dee-yah
I don't know if I would like to eat that...
Well it is two tortillas with something between them like cheese, it is cut into little wedges.
Oh, ok...I could eat that.
P-i-c-o d-e g-a-l-o
You will like this, its tomatoes and onions and cilantro, kind of like salsa. You say it peek-oh duh-guy-oh
That sounds like a game or something...
We need to work on your Spanish little sister...I'll help you.
Muy bien, gracious
(me chuckling at big brother's puzzled look)
Just because she can't read it doesn't mean she can't speak it!
