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NYC Mayor Bloomberg Habla Español (Sort of)

11:07 H | Topics: Language - Magazines - New York City - Politics

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking Spanish classes, with a Colombian tutor. Does this mean he speaks with a Colombian accent?

The men sat at opposite ends of a coffee table speckled with a half-dozen books — on the history of New York’s municipal lawyers, on the subway system’s rich architecture. Their legs stretched out, left foot resting on the right, they were mirror images of disparate worlds: the tutor, an immigrant from Colombia, with his student, the mayor of New York, face to face for 90 minutes in an elegant chamber at City Hall.

In an interview in Vanity Fair magazine, el alcalde says he wishes his Español was better

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My Spanish. I’ve been studying for seven years and I still speak como un novato.

In New York City, it should be a requirement to speak Spanish and I mean that in the best way.

Via / Mi Blog es tu Blog, NYT, Vanity Fair

Image Via / NYT

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