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Topic started 13 years ago by LikeASong in Your Blue Room. Since then 17,807 posts have been made by 182 users.

Mr_Trek

13 years

I have Spanish homework that I don't feel like doing...
iTim

13 years

We were never offered Spanish. Shame. Though French and German are pretty good. Forgotten most in my old age however.
KieranU2

13 years

I done German and had some old bag of a teacher, which made me hate it. At the time, our year could only do French or German, but we were assigned which one we done. Now the lower years can additionally do Spanish. I wish I was able to do that, I would've probably preferred it.

Although, I did choose Standard Grade Italian, but there wasn't enough people to run the class.
Mr_Trek

13 years

I just had one of those moments when you come up with a oneliner and have to write a song about it. ¡Hasta luego espanol!
LikeASong

13 years

That's some nice thoughts about my language, Tim and Kieran... But Spanish is harder than most people think. It's one of the hardest languages to be properly learnt (I don't mean having a slight idea or something), only compared to German -excluding the languages with different characters like Russian, Arabic or Chinese of course.

Nice to know you would have had interest on learning it, though
Mr_Trek

13 years

Spanish has some easy things, and some harder stuff... The good things are that everything is pretty governed by rules, and it's pretty logical. It doesn't have that many irregularities and that stuff. Pronunciation is easy. However... there are A LOT of those rules, a lot.
iTim

13 years

As long as I could go to Spain and get around, I'd be happy.

EDIT: Though of course, fluency would be better.
Mr_Trek

13 years

Originally posted by iTim:As long as I could go to Spain and get around, I'd be happy.

EDIT: Though of course, fluency would be better.

The Spanish speak like machine guns... they're veeeery hard to understand
iTim

13 years

I agree, though if you're lucky, you get some that understand you're a tourist and they're very helpful by either speaking slower or speaking English, which you shouldn't expect of someone in their home country.
LikeASong

13 years

Yes, coming to Spain -unless you go to the more touristic-oriented zones of Madrid and Barcelona- isn't the best option to learn/practice Spanish It's like going to a lost village near Galway to practice English--you're fucked up.
LikeASong

13 years

Originally posted by iTim:I agree, though if you're lucky, you get some that understand you're a tourist and they're very helpful by either speaking slower or speaking English, which you shouldn't expect of someone in their home country.

read post above
Mr_Trek

13 years

Tim: Don't try to speak Swedish if you come here... I promise you... I'd react better to English than someone speaking really weird, hard to understand Swedish. The Swedish have better English skills than the Spanish though... Sometimes Spanish skills are a necessity there.

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