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Fragments of the Past, Tasks for the Future: Spanish in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

James D. Fernández
James D. Fernández*
Affiliation:
New York University
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In december 1826, a young bostonian on a grand tour of Europe received a letter from his father, offering the following advice: “Such are the relations now existing between this country and Spanish America that a knowledge of the Spanish is quite as important as French. If you neglect either of these languages, you may be sure of not obtaining the station which you have in view.” The son received the letter in Paris, heeded his father's advice, and headed straight for Madrid. Some four months later he would write back from the capital of Spain, “I have not seen a city in Europe which has pleased my fancy so much, as a place of residence” (Helman 340).

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 115 , Issue 7: Special Millennium issue , December 2000 , pp. 1961 - 1964
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2000

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