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Fighting the odds to keep Indian tongues alive
HUAMPAMI, Peru (AP) — In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class.
His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his Amazon home town, laughed at his grammatical stumbles, his odd pronunciation.
"I didn't understand anything. I couldn't pronounce words well," the 22-year-old...
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