1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. I can get by on the standard phrases in Spanish, but I couldn't possibly put together sentences like all of you 'foreigners' put together on here. Credit where credit is due
  6. Originally posted by iTim:I can get by on the standard phrases in Spanish, but I couldn't possibly put together sentences like all of you 'foreigners' put together on here. Credit where credit is due

    Thank much you, Tim English friend.
  7. Learned that Skrillex song on guitar. Pretty sweet.
  8. I cannot stand Skrillex.

    I have probably said that before, but I'll put it out there again.
  9. Originally posted by Mr_Trek: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.

    Virtually every people from any country in the 1st world will have better English skills than we the Spanish
  10. You probably have better English skills than the English have Spanish.

  11. Hmmm I doubt that... I think that most Anglo-Saxon people and/or some of their friends and relatives have travelled to Mallorca, Ibiza or Canary Islands at least once, and knows some or a lot of Spanish words, idioms, basic conversation formulae, etc... But I suspect that the rate of Spanish people who have travelled to any English-speaking country is much lower. Nah, seriously, we as a whole suck at foreign languages. Even our Prime Ministers don't speak it
  12. Don't you have compulsory English lessons like we have French?