"Again," Diego said, without looking up from the page.
"Necesito encontrar la salida."
"You put the stress on the wrong syllable. And your r is too hard. The Spanish r is lazy. It does the minimum amount of work required to be an r and not an l."
"The Spanish r sounds like a personal philosophy."
He looked up then. The expression on his face was the one he produced when she said something he found worth noting. It was a small expression. Diego communicated in small expressions. "Say it again."
She said it again. He made a sound that indicated it was approximately correct and moved to the next phrase.
