I was spelling it correctly and yes, I can pronounce the soft B in Spanish, one of the few gringos who can do that. However, I don't know enough other than what it takes to manage simple phrases. "Necessita un Caja 6 pulgadas arriba."
I was working with some masons and I had plugs and switches and fire alarm boxes in hadite block walls. One guy was married to another guy's sister. So, he would call him cunado. Pretty soon, we were all calling each other that. One of the mason helpers would ask "you gottee sister por mi?"
"Si, She likes mexicans but she does not like masons."