Foreign Languages

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  1. Silvia Benoit

    Silvia Benoit Veteran Member
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    Thanks.
    No, is Spanish. Both my parents were French speakers /descendants.
     
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    And by learning one youwere half done with the other. Didn't you? Now, try Italian....it will be even easier.;)
     
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  3. Silvia Benoit

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    [QUOTE="
    Haroldo el Magnifico.[/QUOTE]

    ¿Aprendiste las reglas de los tildes?
     
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    ¿Aprendiste las reglas de los tildes?[/QUOTE]
    No I had two years of High School Spanish
     
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    No I had two years of High School Spanish[/QUOTE]

    Well, in two years of Spanish you should have.. Is "magnífico". :)
     
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    In my other country the kids -at least in my time- learned a second language since the 4th grade.
     
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    Russian youngsters have to show proficiency in English to graduate from secondary school.
     
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    We were taught French in 4th grade in my Virginia elementary school. This was in 1963/1964. I don't believe there was a foreign language offered again until 7th or 8th grade. One year of a foreign language was mandatory in high school. I took 3 years of Spanish.
     
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    It should be the same in all countries.
     
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  10. Hal Pollner

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    l learned conversational Spanish in High School, 1951-54....was president of my Spanish class.
    Since California is predominantly Latino, I always have someone to talk with!

    At age 84, I would like to learn conversational German, so I can chat with Thomas!

    Hal
     
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    I guess it wouldn't pay to tell you to be careful when speaking your Mexican / Salvadorian / Honduran...Spanish to a Latino from South America or the Caribbean.

    See...you can say to a Colombian girl "Me gusta tu cachucha." but if you say the same to an Argentinean or to an Uruguayan you will be smacked violently. LOL
     
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    Silvia, it hasn't happened in the 66 years that I've been speaking among my Mexican amigos!

    California's population is a little over half Mexican, and the language spoken is over half Spanish!

    You go to a lot of Pinata parties there in Yonkers?

    Haroldo
     
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    Besides being a native speaker of Spanish I am, also, a professor of said languages. See, I have dealt with a lot of Spanish speakers -here and from all the regions where said language is spoken.
    Please, what I am telling you is not joke and I have seen people reacting in a "no so nice way" to certain words.
    You do not know what's the meaning given to certain words (same language) in different countries. So....

    BTW, I could have gone to many "piñatas" in Yonkers...but I have chosen no to since they are NOT part of my culture...I don't go from house to house chanting during the Xmas season nor I celebrate the "Día de los Muertos". As I said, same language, different culture.

    The big mistake made in US is to think ALL Spanish speaking person have the same way and roots.
     
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    I stand corrected, Senora Benoit!
    Hal
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  15. Silvia Benoit

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    No need for sarcasm and irony...:). The info. I gave you is based on experience.
    BTW: NY is full of Mexicans, Salvadorians, Argentinians, Bolivians.....and they don't celebrates together.
     
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