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Decir Que?
Filed Friday, June 6 2008.

Talking today with my brother's partners in his real estate development company, both of whom are fluent Spanish speakers, I flashed on a friend from college who couldn't speak Spanish at all, but who, after spending a summer in Mexico, returned able to say exactly four phrases:

Apparently, it was the best summer of his life.