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My Spanish Homework
Me | Hildy

Posted on 09/30/2005 2:40:33 PM PDT by Hildy

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To: AmishDude

That was so funny. Thanks for putting this back into perspective for me!!!


21 posted on 09/30/2005 3:11:46 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: AMERIKA
Actually, I live in Northern Virginia. I had a few ancestors among the people who claimed the place at the time the first Europeans showed up.

So, technically speaking, I am at home~!

And you?

22 posted on 09/30/2005 3:12:08 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: Hildy

Why aren't the Mexicans dying to go to Spain?? And what have the Spanish speaking people done in the last hundred years that anyone cares about? (other than beer and quacamole)


23 posted on 09/30/2005 3:13:35 PM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: AmishDude
LOL!Image hosted by Photobucket.com
24 posted on 09/30/2005 3:16:24 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: Hildy

I know a number of Europeans. The perception is, of course, that Americans are ignorant. Well, if you're a member of the only superpower in the world, you really can't keep track of the other 100 insignificant little peons. They, on the other hand, know everything about the only country that matters. All I read in that study was a LOT of envy.


25 posted on 09/30/2005 3:16:49 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "Great point." -- AliVertias; ":-) Very clever" -- MJY1288)
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To: Hildy
"Lo que opinan unos de otros"

How do you get opinions of Americans versus just others?

26 posted on 09/30/2005 3:46:12 PM PDT by TheOracleAtLilac
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To: apackof2

LOL! :)


27 posted on 09/30/2005 3:53:00 PM PDT by GodBlessUSA (US Troops, past, present and future, God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
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To: TheOracleAtLilac
It goes on..."Como piensan los espanoles que son los norteamericanos?"...the instructions in American read: ...fill in the blanks with adjectives that correspond to the percentage of Spaniards who felt Americans had those qualities.

It was pretty clear and heavy handed.

28 posted on 09/30/2005 3:54:15 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: AmishDude

Of course I agree. But these textbooks are for students...and it's clear that they want these YOUNG Amerians to know just how horrible they are. And, of course, that translates into liberal ideologies...or as I like to say, the big GUILT complex.


29 posted on 09/30/2005 3:55:56 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy
Sounds more like back door racism by some clever academic.

How many Spaniards know Americans - from other than what's shown on their TVs ?

30 posted on 09/30/2005 4:02:01 PM PDT by TheOracleAtLilac
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To: Hildy

Burn an old phone book. Put ashes in a paper bag. Hand them to the 'professor' with your notice of withdrawal from his class.


31 posted on 09/30/2005 4:10:09 PM PDT by No Longer Free State (No event has just one cause, no person has just one motive, no action has just the intended effect.)
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To: No Longer Free State

I like the teacher..he had nothing to do with the book. And I'm going to finish the class. This is the third time in my life I'm attempting to learn Spanish. I'm going all the way this time!!!!


32 posted on 09/30/2005 4:13:14 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: Hildy
I am curious, are you taking Spaniard, Spanish, or, Latin American, Spanish?

A decade or so ago, (time flys at my age) I had some tapes for learning Spanish. A plant worker of Mexican heritage listened in one day, said he could not understand Spaniard Spanish, it sounded like so much Greek to him.
33 posted on 09/30/2005 4:42:36 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

Latin American, Spanish.


34 posted on 09/30/2005 4:46:19 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: cll
I'm from Puerto Rico and I particularly think that some Spaniards can be arrogant, racist, imperialistic...

LOL! And rather ignorant of their own nation's history of dark doings in the Americas, in my opinion.

35 posted on 09/30/2005 4:47:07 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("Fidel NEVER was the "bad" person except being designated as such." hombre_sincero, Freeper)
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To: Hildy

Good. Spaniard Spanish sounds like sissy speak to the rest of the Spanish-speaking world. Too much lisping.

Good for you. Spanish is a wonderful, rich, expressive, and fun language. I enjoy the heck out of speaking it.

Take advantage of any and all opportunities to speak with a native speaker. You may stumble, babble, and feel and sound foolish, but you will learn more that way than sitting in 100 hours of classroom instruction.


36 posted on 09/30/2005 10:38:09 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (I just stepped in a big pile of sassy.)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Thanks! I am looking forward to it. I know alot of people who speak it, and they never miss an opportunity to test my progress!!!!


37 posted on 10/01/2005 7:01:12 AM PDT by Hildy
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To: muawiyah

Actually, I live in Northern Virginia. I had a few ancestors among the people who claimed the place at the time the first Europeans showed up.
So, technically speaking, I am at home~!

And you?


LOL! You are funny...All I said was LONG before your European ancestors showed up here...........THE INDIANS LAID CLAIM TO THIS LAND!!!

I am sick of hearing about the Mexicans wanting their land back. If it keeps up I am going BACK to Europe!!! I felt more at home in the Czech Republic than I do in the land I grew up in.


38 posted on 10/01/2005 10:49:03 AM PDT by AMERIKA
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To: AMERIKA
Some of my ancestors owned Bohemia, too, before they got run off by a more primitive people. Read all about it in Caesar's Gallic Commentaries.

Stuff does happen.

39 posted on 10/01/2005 7:37:14 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: muawiyah

Well I am happy for you!

I am just plain white american.


40 posted on 10/02/2005 7:18:08 AM PDT by AMERIKA (Dobre Den)
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