Spanish as spoken by newly appointed physicians at the Palo Alto Medical Clinic

[From bios included in the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Health News newsletter, Sept 2005]

"conversational Spanish" (1)

"basic Spanish" (1)

"fluent Spanish" (1)

"medical Spanish" (2)

"limited Spanish" (1)

"Spanish" (1)
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They could get a little more descriptive here. It would help I think. Some suggestions:

"Spanish spoken as if it were English, present tense only, with many wrong words and other mistakes."

"Seriously flawed Spanish followed by a shrug and a decisive return to English"

"Bad, bad, bad Spanish. You-don't-want-to-know-how-bad Spanish."

" 'Hey, you're hurting my ears' Spanish."