“I graduated HS in 1960. Every student was required to have two years of a foreign language or they could not graduate. I took Spanish in 9th and 10th grades, as the other languages then offered were Latin and French. I can still understand much of the Spanish language and figure out what it means when written, but when listening to a Mexican speaking very fast I often don’t understand what he/she has said.”
I graduated HS thirty years later; we were required to have 2 years of a language as well (I believe that has been moved up to 3 since). I must say that while I studied Spanish for 2 years I learned a lot more using it (there is no shortage of opportunity for that in my area); the classes helped in the sense of being able to read & write it. Spanish speakers thing we speak quickly as well (it is almost an illusion caused by lack of comprehension); sometimes they (like us) may speak quickly if they don’t want others to understand.
Spanish speakers thing we speak quickly as well (it is almost an illusion caused by lack of comprehension); sometimes they (like us) may speak quickly if they don’t want others to understand.
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Understand! Being a Texan for almost 71 years, I’m told that I speak with a bit of a slow drawl. I also hear others in the same way. .......Drives me crazy to hear some of the blabbering females on cable news speaking with a high, screechy, nasal voice like a 45 rpm record being played on 78 rpm. lol ...I only pick up about every third word they say, because they talk like gattling guns shoot.