And this is pretty much exactly what I meant. When I took Spanish in school, my teacher was Puerto Rican, I had several Filipino classmates, a few Mexican classmates, and one who was actually FROM Spain (he was taking EVERY language course offered as electives; this guy was like Einstein!). It was more than a bit humorous to hear them talk to each other in Spanish, and I can't tell you how many times I heard from one of my Hispanic classmates, "Man, she TOTALLY told you the wrong word for <whatever the word was>. It's SUPPOSED to be <insert the Mexican, Filipino, or (true) Spanish word here>." Maybe that's why I remember so little Spanish now (or maybe it's just the drugs).