How to speak Chilean
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issuer
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GLOBAL GRADUATE
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Language
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English
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Date Accepted
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12/28/19
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Contributor
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Lidia Fanzo
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Title
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How to speak Chilean
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Six months later, I found myself in Santiago airport trying to explain that I wanted to take a taxi to the city centre when I was suddenly aware of how wrong I had been. Why were they speaking so fast? I couldn’t understand a thing, was it the same language that I had studied for almost 7 years? I spent my first month in Chile begging my new friends to speak more slowly and at times, after a particularly long day, I still feel as though I’ll never be able to understand most native Chileans.
