Posted on 04/01/2021 5:41:42 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
What’s the big deal. Her husband can’t even speak English.
Watcher of the Skies
Watcher of All???
Falsa primera dama.
I find that the French usually respect you for trying. Not so much Spanish speakers. Eye rolls, sidelong looks, sneers and snickers are often encountered.
Like you say, linguistic subtleties are very tricky. Idiom can be a mess in any language. And we surely aren’t ready for those reflexives.
Shouldn’t there be an x in there? “Xe, xe xxxpxxdx!”
See, Spanish for woketards is easy!
I took HS French, so, here ya go! Now you can visit France and Quebec!
où est la bibliothèque
They’d all get some disorder if they knew that flag also resembled a symbol of the NRA.
Oh yeah, the other NRA (National Recovery Act, 1930s).
It’s like those French have a different word for everything.
Si se pudenda!
America’s Elena Ceausescu.
Spanish is actually one of the easiest languages out there. Phonetical spelling, long words, redundant, no tricky pronunciation.
Plus, there are many dialects, so one can always claim to learn Spanish in Chile (that’s, if you are good at it) or Nicaragua (if you really cannot make it). Spanish people really appreciate, if you are trying, and are quite forgiving, if you mangle it. I have had great experience with my Spanish, love it!
But this is unbelievably horrible. I do not think those people appreciated it. No excuse could be found!
Sorry, Brown isn’t the New Black. Latinos are vastly different than Blacks and they can think. Thats why many support a strong leader like Trump over a weak Biden. You can’t put on a fake accent and eat a taco and get their votes. They have no “Hate Whitie” button to push. You can’t win by saying “They goin’ to put you all back in chains!” The anti-Catholic bid will not work on them.
The problem is that I learned mostly by listening to native speakers so my accent is pretty much perfect but the local accent is very identifiable (like a Boston accent, say) and people hearing me speak that way very quickly assume I am fluent. Bad assumption, ends up embarassing for both parties. But oh well, que lastima.
I shall endeavor to capture my thoughts more clearly going forward.
If failed Spanish was good enough for Doris Day, it should be OK for Jill applied nothingness Biden.
Doris Day made millions by singing one song in failed Spanish
I speak very, very, um, fluent Spanish
Todo ‘stá bien chévere’, you understand that?
Chévere, bien chévere
I can’t remember, but it seems to me the NAZIs used an eagle symbol for something or other.
That's been my experience also. I had four years of Spanish in high school back in the late 70's, before it was called "immersive learning." Our Spanish teacher only spoke in Spanish from day one.
Many years later, I was stopped as I walked up Canal Street on the near South Side of Chicago by a Hispanic couple who asked for directions to the court house in Spanglish. I figured hey, they were trying to speak English, so I tried giving them directions in Spanish. The best I could do was the number of blocks to travel and which direction to turn. They were actually pretty close to the courthouse and just made a wrong turn.
I received big smiles, a very nice thank you and a thumbs up.
As I live in a townhome now and most of the landscape crew is Hispanic, we exchange pleasantries in Spanish and occasionally I get new words/phrases from them. The bonus here for me is my GF is half Hispanic and I get to try those new words & phrases on her. Occasionally she's impressed I still try. :-)
I lived with a Mexican family for a year.
I can think in Spanish.
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