Mr. Delgado. They don't know as much as Oswald. Oswald knew more than they did, because he applied himself more. These guys would pick up a book once or twice a week and learn a phrase here and there. But Oswald was continuously trying to learn something, and more often as not he would come in to me any time we were off, and he would be asking me for this phrase. Spanish is very tricky. There's some sentences you can use, and if you use them, let's see—how can I—well, the pasts and present, you know, past and present tense of a sentence. He would get a misinterpretation and say, "I can't say this in a conversation?", and I would say "No. You don't say this this particular time. You use it some place else." Like, "Yo voy al teatro"—"I'm going to the theatre"—you know. And there's a correct way of saying that and there's a wrong way of saying it. The best way—let me see if I can get you a good phrase. I can't right offhand think of a phrase that would fit. But some of these things when he picked up the language, some things he couldn't put into a sentence right away, and he would want to know why. That's the type of guy he was. "Why can't these things be used? Why is it that you use it now and not later?" Things like that.
Mr. Liebeler. He would learn some of the words and then he would try to put them in a sentence logically?
Mr. Delgado. Right.
Mr. Liebeler. And the language just wasn't constructed that way?
Mr. Delgado. Right.
Mr. Liebeler. And he had difficulty in understanding that?
Mr. Delgado. You see, in English you say things straight out; right? In Spanish, 9 times out of 10 it is just the reverse. I am going to the show. But if I was to translate it into Spanish, it would come out the show I will go, or to the show I will go. So you have got to turn it around, you know, for him. That is what I was trying to explain.
Mr. Liebeler. He tried to construct Spanish sentences in pretty much the same way English sentences would be constructed after he learned the Spanish words?
Mr. Delgado. Right; and that is where he got his help from me, you know.
Mr. Liebeler. But as far as ordinary, simple ideas, you think that Oswald could make himself understood in Spanish.