I had a high school friend whose family came here from Germany via Argentina. His parents were German born Argentinians. Fred was born in Argentina. I think he learned English here. He was raised with German and Spanish but came here so young he mostly lost it. German was his main language. When he joined LAPD he got Spanish back pretty good from some basic classes and working with Spanish speakers and working east and south LA.

Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.

Stupid always finds a way.