My Spanish Homework

Me | Hildy

[muawiyah]

Not if some of my older cousins got around as much as they claimed they did!

[AMERIKA]

No there are no niggas in my history.

[muawiyah]

Darn, I coulda' swore you had that special sound in your voice.

Are you sure ~ best ask your momma.

[Spanishguy]

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

That's the point that the oversensitive guys around here have missed. The real question should be "what do spaniards think about the americans that they see on TV?"

Personally, I've never know any person who has REALLY been there that holds these opinions although a lot of them were openly anti-americans before going there. It's funny how people can go from one edge to the other when they get in touch with the real stuff...

Anyway, this happens in all directions. I would like to know how many of the people around here with very hard opinions about our spines (ouch!!!) do really know what they are talking about.

In any case, even if it is real, it is the worst choice for a text book ever... unless you use to talk to the class about cultural distorsion (confusing "focused to results" with "materialistic") and cliches (imperialist???)...

[Spanishguy]

Although I live in Barcelona so I speak spaniard spanish you can count with my help if ever need.

Unfortunately every country speaks a different spanish so you can't learn a general one. Anyway we understand each other quite well unless you talk to someone with a very very low education level.

You only have to be careful about those words that in one country mean something normal and in others are offensive or sexual. "coger" is the most usual example, in Spain means "take" and nothing else ("coger el autobus") but in latin america it means... well, you already know what it means... obviously mexicans LOL when a spaniard says the sentence of the bus... there are dozens of things like this...