This morning, kety esquivel posted a
spanish-language diary on where the Democratic party should be going with regard to hispanic concerns (at least I'm pretty sure that's what it was about.
I'd like to see this experiment flourish, to see more of the spanish-speaking community discover and use the power of dKos.
But what about the rest of us, the sort-of conversational, the wish-we-were spanish-speaking?
There are many of us who are spanish-speaking-wannabes, perhaps we can struggle through a newspaper article or a few minutes of "Sabado Gigante" but by no means fluent. We'd love to participate in hispanic outreach or to broaden our Spanish vocabularies into politics (and better grammar in general), but we are too shy to actually write and have fluent speakers see our toddler-level utterances.
This kind of off-topic discussion was discouraged in Kety's thread, so I'd like to take it here. Is there a suggestion for how to reach those of use in the pidgen-Spanish community and help us increase our fluency? Should we start pidgen threads and invite fluent speakers to correct our posts? Is dKos an appropriate medium to learn Spanish while attempting to have a substantive conversation?
And what's the easiest way to set up a keyboard for Spanish input, and is it easy to switch back and forth?