Alberto Guzman, Riverton, Utah: an interview by Jason Hardy, February 10th, 2006: Saving the legacy tape no. SL-754 & 755

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ALBERTO GUZMAN February 10 2006 another guy in another language and then take that different language and e plain it to th other party what they're talking about. JAS: Yeah, that's really talented. ALB: That's quite a thing, you know. When I was a kid, you know, I kept telling my mother and father, "I want to learn both languages. English and Spanish." So they taught me. They started me out with the ABC's, you know, and ABC in English, which is A-B-C [Spanish pronunciation]. See? And that, I used to be so good at that; I could stand with another guy here and you ask him this and that and I ask him the question in their language, then he tells me in his language, then I interpret it to this other guy. That's something there that I'm really proud of. I was really proud of that. I was proud of my language, you know. JAS: Yeah. ALB: That helped me, a lot. That helped other officers do something about this country, like North Africa, you know. And they asked me to ask this Arab this and that. I asked the Arab tells me in Spanish, then I tell the general or captain what he said, you know. And learned a lot of information, you know, just with your language itself. JAS: You're probably one in a million that could have done that back then. ALB: Yeah, that's not easy to do. JAS: Yeah. ALB: You have to have had it when you was a kid. When I was a kid, I learned how to read Spanish pretty good. I can spell Spanish good. I can't spell as good in English as I can in 47