Are people in Spain familiar with the Judeo Spanish language also known as Ladino?
Not in general. I think most people know what it is, but I’d bet most people, given a little patience would understand it, but as I’ve seen it written with latin letters, I have a hard time understanding it. I’d have to sit down and see it written in proper letters (hebew alephbet) , and see if I get it that way. I’m guessing Jewish people, and especially Sephardim would have more familiarity with the language than most Spaniards. I have a friend whose son lives in Buenos Aires, and is studying Ladino. Any interest, I monitor a photo page in Flickr called http://flickr.com/groups/djudeoespanyol/ (I don’t really monitor it…the guy who created it made me an administrator. If I decide to, I might actually become active on the page.) Go ahead and check it out, but beware of the filtered ones, they belong to the guy who set up the page, and if you ask me, don’t really belong with it. Anyway, he also hooked me up to a la
