Lee Jamison

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Lee Jamison has been a volunteer teacher among the Hispanic community for some forty years. He was first exposed to Spanish in his first year of high school in Ohio, USA in the mid-80s. The following year exchange students from Honduras and Spain arrived, prompting him to go beyond the books and dive into conversational Spanish. In 1988 he moved to New York City and joined a vibrant Caribbean community in Manhattan, chatting regularly with Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Dominicans who mercilessly machine-gunned sawed-off words and phrases--together with a smattering of Spanglish. Then, in the mid-1990s, Lee and his wife moved to Nicaragua, where they were exposed to yet another variety of Spanish. Living in Central America, they had ample opport ...more

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Nicaraguan Spanish: Speak l...

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Guatemalan Spanish: Speak l...

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My Burning Tongue: Mexican ...

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Panamanian Spanish: Speak l...

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Costa Rican Spanish: Speak ...

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