Before coming to Cochabamba I believed the 'language barrier' to be a thing of myth, legend (like big foot, that giant snowball/man thing which lives in the himalayas etc). Everywhere else in the world that I have visited : France, Spain, Chile, Guyana, Sao Paulo (briefly) and Portugal (along with a few others), I have always been able to get by, be understood and get on with life. But for the first time in my life I am having to rely heavily on sign language to convey my meanings across, Latin American spanish is a very vague term....each region has its own style, words and phrases used in everyday life; Especially seeing as the majority of the population in Bolivia are indiginous peoples for whom spanish has been forced upon. Anyway thats all the negatives out
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