Okay, wait. That's an understatement. He spoke English well, it just took longer for him to respond as he had to think more about the question and what it meant since they were kind of deep I guess? I mean my own grandparents barely speak English so I understand how to work my around the question or simply translate it from Spanish to English, so that's what I did.
Along with his difficulty answering the question, he spoke in a really low and quiet voice, almost like Marcel the Shell (Google it if you don't know) but we had the microphone so I hope it picked up his voice well? He didn't really repeat the question which is a PROBLEM but we can figure that out. Besides that, his answers were straight to the point and very assuring though. He was such a cute old man saying he felt like a celebrity. We had him read a random book and mind you he doesn't speak that much English, and he really did try to read it and it was just hilarious. Even though we had some difficulties, we hope we can use him because it will bring out the cultural aspect we want in our project too.
Another thing, Spanish sayings and proverbs make NO sense when translated to English, which was most definitely a problem during the interview. We asked him what the best piece of advice was for him and the answer he gave us was a saying about how if you move a rock too much it won't be able to grow mold. Sounds weird, but in Spanish it makes perfect sense. We are going to have to edit this baby a lot but the interview went well overall...let's just hope the footage came out okay :D
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