While Hurricane Irene was no laughing matter this past weekend, one stay-at-home mom found humor in New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s unaccented Spanish at press conferences during the storm. She created the Twitter handle @ElBloombito as a parody to amuse homebound friends, tweeting irreverent Spanglish announcements. El Bloombito went viral and had well over 10,000 followers by the time skies cleared.
At Living Language, we applaud anyone who takes the time to learn a langauge, whether elected official or civilian. Bloomberg has the basics down, but could benefit from listening to the native speakers on our CDs for further pronunciation practice. We suggested as much from our Spanish Twitter feed, @LL_Spanish.
Bloomberg played along and responded to one of @ElBloombito’s tweets himself, providing video of the press conference in which he answered a question from a reporter about El Bloombito in Spanish. ¡Buen trabajo!
