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Nope. The people I worked with were almost all from Spain. They spoke Castilian. My main exposure before them was always from Latin American sources. I LOVE
by crusso 14y ago
Nope. The people I worked with were almost all from Spain. They spoke Castilian. My main exposure before them was always from Latin American sources. I LOVE the way Castilian people speak since it's so clear.
We had Latin American folks in the office too. They never had a problem speaking with each other. Maybe a border guard speaking broken Spanish confused someone, but this woman was just trying to ask basic Spanish 101 type questions.
The follow-up to the story is that I came across the same candidate's resume 6 months later. He had changed the "fluent in Spanish" to something like "basic Spanish".
- toomuchcoffee 14y agoHe had changed the "fluent in Spanish" to something like "basic Spanish". OK, there's no doubt you're right about this one poor fellow. But as a minor point of detail: Maybe a border guard speaking broken Spanish... The border guard in this case was a native Latin American speaker. I don't speak either version of Spanish, so I'm just going by what my acquaintance said.
- gcp 14y agoI had a very similar experience when I was much younger, fooling myself that by not specifying how fluent I was, I wasn't lying when claiming knowledge of language X. Then I had an interview much like the one you described and learned that "misleading statement" and "lying" are close relatives. No job, but life lesson learned.