Most, if not all, Americans who decide to move to Mexico to "get away from it all" seem to do so based on the merits of at least two books, a handful of websites, some seminars (in the Guadalajara area), and a host of chat rooms and forums whose themes are how wonderfully cheap, relaxing, easy, and convenient it will be living in Mexico

It has been the Prime Living Locations such as the Lake Chapala area, Puerto Vallarta, San Miguel de Allende, Cuernavaca, Mazatlán, and others to which Gringos have been attracted Because they came in droves and droves, the Mexicans in these cities had to adapt to serve the Gringos

To be honest with you, I don't see why more Gringos in Guanajuato aren't getting ripped off when trying to rent, or God forbid, buy a house on their own It never occurred to us to move here without as much Spanish under our belts as possible

You and your business partner have been working your tails off trying to get a bunch of modern, Mexican-style duplexes off the ground You've poured too much money to think about into hiring Mexican workers to build this duplex complex

There is a great restaurant in town where I love to eat steak It is cheap, though they don't offer the best cuts of meat

It is not an exaggeration to declare that the United States of America could be the only country in the world where one can graduate from high school and even college without taking one course of foreign language study Of those few schools which still require their students to take a foreign language to graduate, the one or two years of foreign language study is woefully inadequate for developing a high degree of spoken fluency

The Horse, as I wrote previously, is spoken fluency I made the point that long before they go off to first grade, children already have a high degree of spoken fluency in their native tongue before they learn the parts of speech or memorize grammar rules

“Foreign language learning is not something that happens overnight; it takes a commitment of time and money U

Why should an American learn a foreign language in the 21st century What and where is the need

Think about this very seriously for a moment If you have children, just think what degree of spoken fluency your child had when you first packed him off to first grade