By MICHELLE BRUNETTI POST, Staff Writer
A roomful of English as a Second Language students sat giggling over the verb conjugation "I will want."
"The 'w' isn't used much in Spanish," explained volunteer teacher Alba Arocho, 62, of the Minotola section of Buena Borough. "They're having trouble getting around the 'w'," she said, smiling as one student simply refused to try to say it.
"I came here (from Puerto Rico) at age six," she told her class of about a dozen construction, farm, and restaurant workers and one homemaker - all Mexican immigrants, "and I still have difficulty with some of the words."
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