Agent Murphy English?

I think he understood it a lot more as the show went on. Many times, the other people would speak to him in Spanish and he understood. Granted, I am only on episode 8.

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Yeah, that was so annoying and made him feel even more arrogant and like he didn't give a crap about the country he was assigned to. He'd have to be actively trying not to learn Spanish to not pick up almost anything. Spanish really isn't very difficult, at least as far as being conversational in it goes. Sure the conjugations are a bitch, but you can hold a decent conversation and even be fluent enough without nailing past perfect subjunctive or whatever.

I would understand him trying to play up the "clueless gringo" thing with criminals, but with his co-workers?


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My sis studied abroad in Spain for 3-4 months and began dreaming in Spanish and easily became fluent.

I agree. Seems pretty weird that he never learned it. You'd think that you'd pick it up after a while, without even trying.

Even more strange is that he had lived in Miami where a knowledge of Spanish is near essential. Guessing more people speak English in Bogata than Miami.

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I took nearly a year of Spanish in college, and yes, it was difficult to learn, and I struggled with it, but once I did get into it, it was a trip. I don't think I've ever in my entire life had to use the left side of my brain as much as I did when I learning the language, as funny as that sounds---doing that gave it one hell of a workout (I read somewhere that people are either left-brained or right-brained.) Basically, one of the ways I learned in class was that our teacher would speak to us only in Spanish, and we had to reply back to him only in Spanish. I'd have to take what he said, translate it back as best I could in my head (converting English words into Spanish---scrambling around in my brain,lol)and speak back to him in whatever amount of Spanish I knew well enough to speak at that time. So,no,it's not an easy language to learn ( I don't think learning any language is) but some people can pick up languages quicker, I'm guessing.

I had fun learning it,even though it was hard as hell to learn---very hard work,straight-up. Learning to write in Spanish (for me) was actually easier than learning to speak it----reading about the rules for the vocabulary and trying to understand them was one thing, but listening to people and trying to put together/understand what they were actually talking about was a whole other thing altogether---that was definitely the harder part.

That being said, I don't understand why or how anyone could live in a foreign country and not want to know the language---makes absolutely no sense to me. I mean, knowing the language would make it a hell of a lot easier to get around and navigate your way though certain situations, so to speak.

I have no idea what the real Steve Murphy's command of Spanish would have been.

However from the show's point of view it makes sense for him not to speak Spanish. It would have meant that the English dialogue in the show would have shifted from about 50-20% and this would most likely have put off a lot of the English Speaking audience.