Indiana: Busy Week for WIIH - Marco Dominguez and Carolina Pimentel

www.wishtv.com March 7, 2003 - 1:05 pm

It's been a busy week for WISH-TV's new colleagues at WIIH. The WIIH presented the first local news broadcast in Spanish on Monday night.

Today News 8 spoke to WIIH's anchors, Marco Dominguez and Carolina Pimentel. "It's been great. It's amazing. I mean, the support we have received from WISH-TV, the support that we have received from the whole community. We can't complain," said Dominguez.

"We have been working hard, but because we have a huge responsibility with the community, we're enjoying ourselves. And this is an incredible job," said Pimentel.

Pimentel says she learned English through the infamous "immersion" style. "I came here in 1997 to study English and I just lived with my host mother at the time. I went to Butler University and everything was in English - except my roommate. She was from Venezuela, too, so we spoke a lot of Spanish. But lots of time - I would say like 90 percent of the time - was in English. I had to learn."

Dominguez also came to Indiana from Venezuela a few years ago and tried the immersion technique. "But I had a professor that told me once, 'The best way to practice your English is to listen to the Brady Bunch show.'  And I still have that song in my mind. I used to see it at 4:30 every afternoon, It was great," he laughed.

If you're considering immersing yourself in the Spanish language, check out WIIH at 11:00 pm on Channel 17.