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tracker465
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03 June 2010 at 9:04pm | IP Logged 
boisjolie wrote:
tracker465 wrote:

Cons: In my area, there are many Mexican and Puerto Rican families. If I worked hard, I am sure that somehow I could “infiltrate” into this circle of people, and would thus be able to practice my Spanish daily at home, something which I would not be able to do with Dutch.


How is this a con? Seems a HUGE advantage to me...


Ahh, when I first made my original post, I was asking as to which language would be better for me to get a better grip on, before traveling abroad. I think I know where your confusion comes from about me thinking that the above would be a con to learn more Spanish over Dutch, for the time I had gone on my trip. (The trip is over now). But my way of thinking was/is sort of along the lines of the following: if you are standing in a mall, and here someone speaking Frisian/Georgian/other exotic language and there is another person speaking Spanish/French/German, and you are learning both lanugages, who do you approach? An American would typically receive less opportunities to speak Dutch, and therefore if he has an opportunity, he might want to take it.

Now this is all pretty irrelevant by this point, as Dutch is about 95% dead in St. Maarten


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