Mexicanos are norteamericanos, technically, as are canadienses.
You'll hear no little resentment in Iberoam‚rica about the appropriation of the term 'Americans' by the residents of Los Estados Unidos de Am‚rica. Really, everybody from Point Barrow to Tierra del Fuego is an American.
Also, did you know that the full name of the nation of M‚xico is 'Los Estados Unidos de M‚xico'? ... not that it's all that united - but then a lot of them good ol' Southern USA boys still fly the Stars and Bars, too. Take a New Yorker to Seattle, and you might as well take him to Mars.
We're none of us all that united. On the other hand, we all put our pants on one leg at a time.
Classrooms suck, that's not where you learn a language. Go to the place where they speak it, chat up the young ladies, seek out the more interesting bars, which inevitably have the cheapest beer in town. Hang out, play with some kids. Work if you must, but set a strict limit on hours spent. Eat the fish tacos, with the free chiles poblanos.
For a number of furrin characters in SI, you can use this #reply-1115349
... but if you have Windows 95, you can go to 'Keyboard Properties' and set yourself up with a keyboard in various languages, with a clickable changeover thingie down in the right-hand corner. There's Russian, even, on this one, and it's 18 months old.
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