Corona Gold Digging

These Spanish language instruction tapes might not make me bilingual but they are making me laugh.

I had previously advanced from learning how to tell people that I don't speak Spanish to being able to say that I have no pesos or dollars and that I want some.

This will come in very handy in my next career as a Mexican beggar.

Subject of the next leccion? Beer. I kid you not. "I want to drink something. I want a beer," I am instructed to recite en Espanol.

So now I'm qualified to be a drunk Mexican beggar!

That's not the funny part. That came in the ensuing practice conversation in which I ask a senorita in a hotel if she wants to drink something: "Do want to drink a beer?"

Her immediate reply? "How may pesos do you have?"

No matter the culture, it's always about the money, isn't it?
Apparently as soon as though my lucrative begging career takes off, some Mexican gold-digger will come along and relieve me of my riches.

Muchas cervezas, por favor!