SAN DIEGO—Staring directly at the speaker so it knew he was onto it, local white man Sam Vance told reporters Monday he felt like the Spanish-language music playing in a Macy’s department store was talking about him. “I can’t make out what he’s saying, exactly, but I’m getting the nagging suspicion that the Mexican…
Woah, you just made me realize that there are two different “I am” in Spanish. The one you used is for saying you are at a place, doing something, or a status (eg tired, happy, etc). If you want to say that you are a thing, then you would use “soy”.