Re: An Unsolved Mystery.

["Arturo Ramos" <arturo.ramos2@...>]

Here is the translation of your "chiste" Jose.

The father of a wealthy family sends one of his older sons to the 
U.S. so that he could learn English.  The son went to one of the best 
schools in the country and after a while the father calls him and 
asks him, "So how is it going with your English?"  The son 
responds, "Gosh, Dad, I can't seem to learn English and I am 
forgetting my Spanish."  Then the Dad tells him anxiously, "Well you 
had better come back then son, lest you become a mute."

Agradecemos mucho que hagas el esfuerzo de escibirnos en ingles.  A 
mi me cuesta bastante escribir en espanol tambien, pero sigamos 
haciendolo como podamos y asi vamos mejorando, no...

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, José Román González López 
<jrgl01@y...> wrote:
>
> To the great fellow Joseph:
>    
>   Thanks for your message.
>    
>   I hope not to say in my e-Mail messages an incorrect expression, 
but I know that my English is very bad. Any way I don't like offend 
to anybody, I don't use "offensive words", and my intention is other. 
In my house, may mother did say me "te voy a quemar la boca" 
or "lavate esa bocota con jabón" when I, or my brothers and sisters 
said any bad word (maldiciones o groserías).
>    
>   I understand the John message in the correct way, his comment 
benefit me, because is for my future corrections. I will effort more 
to write correct English, I promise you.
>    
>   That you say of your experience learning English is very 
interesting. I relate you a funny account "chiste", I hope you can 
translate to the rest of the ranchos group:
>    
>   En una familia adinerada, el padre envió a uno de sus hijos 
mayores a Estados Unidos para que aprendiera bien el inglés, el hijo 
se fue a una de las mejores escuelas de allá, al poco tiempo el padre 
le habla por teléfono a su hijo y le dice "y ¿cómo te ha ido con tu 
inglés?" -El hijo le responde- "ay apá, fíjate que el inglés no lo 
logro aprender, y el español se me está olvidando", entonces el padre 
le dice apresuradamente "pos entonces rgrésate mijo, no te vayas a 
quedar mudo".
>    
>   Sincerely
>    
>   JRGL.
>   Mexico City.
>    
>   
> Joseph Puentes wrote:
>   
> José Román,
> 
> I agree your english is not perfect (neither is mine ask Marge 
Vallazza), but I VERY VERY much agree that it takes tremedous courage 
to jump into the middle of a primarily english speaking group and 
making an effort like you are doing. I don't make that effort in the 
Spanish only groups that are available. I should but don't. My thanks 
and encouragement go to you and I hope you continue to communicate 
with the group. John Gonzalez is a great member of the group and has 
helped me when I needed translation work. The message I send out when 
people are applying for group membership was fine tuned and polished 
by John. I said all that so you receive his commentary on your 
english in the way I know he meant it. . .with the heart of a person 
that wants to help. 
> 
> I would like to help in anyway I can but my Spanish writing is 
worst than my spoken Spanish and that means it's pretty bad. Hey you 
can ask Marge Vallazza she knows that even my written English is bad 
as well. I definitely didn't do well in English class in school. In 
fact when I was 5 years old (or was it 6) in the beginning class 
(Kindergarten) I was almost getting put in with the kids that 
were "mentally retarded" only because I couldn't speak English, at 
that age I only spoke Spanish, but look at me now and see how far I 
have come from those times. Let me call you on the phone and we can 
fumble our way through a conversation but I'm truly handicapped in my 
genealogical research by the loss of my primary language skills. 
> 
> I said all that to say that you should continue working on your 
English. The Ranchos group very much appreciates your participation 
and I am still hopefull we can still one day arrange an interview on 
your experience in studying at the AGN. Keep talking to us in 
English. . .now that we are talking about this I'm sure if there is 
something that we don't quite understand we'll ask. Keep talking in 
English. Your contributions are great!
> 
> thanks and continue.
> 
> Sinceramente,
> 
> joseph
> 
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