Yes, but it's Castilian Spanish, very different tha Mexican, learned it in school when I lived in Spain

I don't speak Spanish but I do believe it should be taught in school. Learning new languages is good for the brain.

No hablas español.

Been married for over 25 years to a woman from Puerto Rico.
Have been working in the inner city Pediatric and STD clinics for over 30 years.
The Wife has tried patiently through the years, attempting to teach me to speak properly.
I seem to get by at my career working at my clinics only due to repetition of the same thing being said over and over through the many years.
Often folks think I speak fluent Spanish or that I am either from Puerto Rico due to speaking and pronouncing words properly and clearly.
But by wearing 2 hearing aids curtesy of Uncle Sam and damage to my hearing. I cannot understand what is being spoken directly to me.
Even the wife with her heavy accent, gets frustrated at me, due to the language barrier in the household.
I don't wear my hearing aids in the house, because I don't want to hear blah, blah, blah daily.
Still, I am only highly proficient and fluent in using outrageously offensive cuss words.

Oh, and just an FYI...
There are many different types of Spanish dialects.
Even the translators are having a difficult time commutating with the clientele.

Me too, but I forgot most of it

My 8th grade spanish teacher taught Mexican/South American Spanish. My 9-11th grade teacher taught Spanish Spanish. Mostly there's some different words between the dialects. Vosotros and ustedes gets a bit trickier

I had Spanish in 4th grade. Forgot most of it. But kinda got a refresher course back in the 90's truck driving. I had to wait a bunch down at Laredo. My first time there and I went to a Whataburger and ordered a burger and soda. The cute little girl jabbered something and I said si. She jabbered something else and I said si again. She gave me a burger, soda,milk shake and a ice cream cone. I paid her as if that was exactly what I wanted. Got to a table and a young girl with a boy 6 or 7 yrs came in and as they went by I gave the kid the ice cream cone and the girl the shake. You would have thought I gave them $100 from all the gracias's and smiles.
Our church sponsors a girl that goes to Central America and teaches English. We had a girl that was a niece of one of the members that dropped in a few times with family, she had just got back from going to school in Spain. She could hardly believe an old codger like me knew any Spanish at all. She teaches Spanish so I got her introduced to the English teacher. She was set on getting into missions with the other one, but covid hit and her brother got killed in a car wreck. Last I heard she was teaching a class a few counties over.
I know only a little Spanish and the funny thing is I have no Spanish blood in me that I know of. But am a close descendant of French and Ute and know only wewe (where is the bathroom), lol.

There are some differences in new world Spanish but it is a myth that somehow they are so different that native speakers of the different variations have a lot of trouble understanding each other. Often the differences have to do with proper names of different things like the flora and fauna, fruit and veggies etc.

In Mexico names for animals and plants often have Nahuatl (Aztec) origins. Like "coyotl" for coyote. In the Andean region of South America a lot of the vocabulary has Quechuan (Incan) influences. Like "chuchaqui" for hangover.

And coastal Spanish like Puerto Rico and other Carribbean countries is shot at you like out of a machine gun and they tend to swallow the last consonant. My wife is always complaining that Mexicans don't speak proper Spanish (Colombian Spanish tends more to Castilian Spanish) but like I always tell her, language is dynamic and always changing. We likely would have some trouble understanding the speech of our ancestors from 200 years ago.

Sprechen sie wut?

They should start by teaching English, reading, writing and speaking. They are not doing that any more. They could move into math and add reading a clock and counting change. If you you don't teach them at home they will not know how.
I lived in Spain for two years and ten months. I speak some Spanish.

Then I think that English should be taught in Spanish schools. The Serbians came LEGALLY and they learned English and we hired them because of it. They also learned EVERYTHING in our History math English and laws and our company sponsored them on their Citizenship tests. They WANTED to be an AMERICAN!!! The Spanish should do the same!!!

A long time ago, beaver peeler hauled me off to Costa Rica without me knowing a word of Spanish. He enjoyed himself way too much at my expense so I made the effort to learn. A year and a half later I was married to a Costa Rican gal that spoke no English. After about a year of marriage I was fluent and we started working on her English. She was shortly fluent in English and put in 25 years in the medical field where being bi-lingual was a definite plus. Still hitched and have to stop and think about which language is being spoken at me!

I cant understand most black people even when they are purportedly speaking english.

A big ole X2

Maybe not so much.
Kind of like understanding an English man, Australian or Canadian (or Texan,Yooper,Bostonian, etc...)

I have been trying to study to communicate with the bulk of our new work force.
It seems that even the alphabet has changed since I first studied Español.
Ch (che) and Ll (elle)are apparently no longer considered distinct letters as they were 40 years ago.

Would’ve helped hunting in Mexico! I really need to learn.

I took it in High School because a couple of the foreign exchange students were hot. I remember enough of it to order beers and say something to get thrown out of a NICE Mexican bar.

Hola, adios and Daisy Fuentes.

Learned all through high school then took it in college (almost minored in it), lived in El paso TX for years. Have surprised many folks by joining their conversations, never expect an old white guy to be fluent ish