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Jackson Lee - Posted - 11/14/2009: 12:45:42
i'm 2 1/2 years of spanish...the only thing it helps me do is understand what they are always fighting and talking about...haha
Proud owner of a Recording King RK-80 banjo #21
Klondike Waldo - Posted - 11/14/2009: 14:40:38
A lot of signs here in Massachusetts are already in both English and Spanish, even though there are more people here who speak Portuguese than who speak Spanish. I studied French as a schoolboy from grade 4 through 12, German in grades 10 and 12 in high school and 2 years in college, and two semesters of Gaelic as an adult. I'm learning Italian by osmosis through my voice studies. I'm all for learning to speak, read and understand other languages.
Hugh- I believe you called us your good friends form the little bit of Lakota I can recall.
(or was it "white friends?")
I'll never play like Earl Scruggs or sing like Luciano Pavarotti, but I'll pick better than Luciano and sing tenor better than Earl
deligo ergo renideo,
Bob Cameron
Edited by - Klondike Waldo on 11/14/2009 14:41:29
mainejohn - Posted - 11/14/2009: 17:48:39
Hace mucho tiempo que yo estudiaba espanol. Es una lengua muy bonita, pero al estado de Maine es mas importante poder hablar la lengua francesa.
Cheers,
John Coleman
Scarborough, Maine
Edited by - mainejohn on 11/14/2009 18:01:07
Chesapeake - Posted - 11/14/2009: 20:46:10
Here's one I've always wanted to say, but haven't yet found the occasion.
Diga a sus padres, no orine en el agua, porque podemos tener que beberlo pronto.
Nosferatu - Posted - 11/15/2009: 08:43:48
Thank you Ronnie, I know He walks with you.
Yes Waldo, good friends.
Thank you,
"Count" Hugh
"I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain." -- Jonathan Harker, Dracula
Nosferatu - Posted - 11/15/2009: 08:46:10
ROLFLMAO!
Donald, I guess you found the occasion to say it...Good advice! See..If you don't speak Spanish you'll miss that little gem and you just might do it! LOL
Thank you,
"Count" Hugh
"I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain." -- Jonathan Harker, Dracula
Edited by - Nosferatu on 11/15/2009 08:50:16
raybob - Posted - 11/15/2009: 09:12:33
If only my high school Spanish books would have had some useful stuff like that. I found taking my high school Spanish to Spain very interesting. Like when you ask someone where the bathroom is... if you say 'bathroom' en Espanol, they think you might want to take a bath. Very funny. The language is more literal than ours in some ways. And I wasn't there long enough to be immersed in the idioms like a native speaker.
Ray
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." --G. Santayana
millwheel - Posted - 11/15/2009: 09:35:28
Todo esto me vale madre. La pura verdad es que debemos aprender a hablar espan(y)ol antes de llegar a ser una minoria. ("Sheet Farr, I reckon we orter learn to palaver in Spanish afore we git to be a minority.")
Millwheel
Nosferatu - Posted - 11/15/2009: 09:40:07
I really don't speak Spanish, I talk Mexican. Living in San Diego affords me to keep up with it. I talk to people on the trolly, in the park, it's just fun. I always learn something. We laugh when I say something wrong and they're more then happy to teach me the correct way. I've made some good friends.
Thank you,
"Count" Hugh
"I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain." -- Jonathan Harker, Dracula
brokenstrings - Posted - 11/15/2009: 22:03:53
Hugh, Mexican Spanish has so many aztequismos (i have an entire dictionary of them) that it nearly counts as a Native American language.
Jessy
Frailaway, ladies, frailaway!
MrNatch3L - Posted - 11/16/2009: 04:03:00
On the topic: Yes. Why not? It can't hurt. If nothing else it will broaden your horizons. Take it from an francophile American of Hispanic descent living in Russia playing the banjo. Hola, mes amis, qu'est que c'est pasa y gavaritye po russkiy- TMITIM? (I'm so confused!)
Slightly off topic: If you have young kids you might want to consider starting them on French early on. Saved us literally tens of thousands. Our kid started with it in elementary school and was fluent enough to get into Strasbourg (well, she had excellent marks too). France is one of those countries where university tuition and fees are so cheap it's hardly worth bothering about. We just had to come up with her living expenses for a couple of years until she was able to contribute a bit working part time. This helped us because we didn't have to choose between education and retirement, and helped the kid because she started adut life debt-free. I would say "study abroad" but I'm afraid of what Mike Gregory will do with that...  Page: 1 2
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