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Why the Spanish can’t learn English | ||
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| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6529 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 17 of 33 20 July 2010 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
I agree :D Look at this graphic... come on! It's the least Germanic language in the whole family. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6204 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 18 of 33 20 July 2010 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think the main thing is that Spanish speakers (like English speakers) don't need to use foreign languages, because such a huge number of people speak Spanish. I have traveled to Italy, Malta, and Morocco with Spanish speakers, and as soon as people heard use speaking in Spanish they tended to speak Spanish. This even happened a couple of times in Thailand. Granted, we were in touristy places, but a non-English and non-Spanish speaker would probably have to use another language (like English), whereas English and Spanish speakers can often use their own when they go abroad.
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| aarontp Groupie United States Joined 5268 days ago 94 posts - 139 votes | Message 19 of 33 20 July 2010 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm sort of glad about this. I'm tired of everyone knowing English. It gets irritating.
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| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5328 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 20 of 33 20 July 2010 at 9:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5839 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 21 of 33 20 July 2010 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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(Footnote -- the header seems to imply that Spanish people are incapable of learning English; and I disagree with that notion. I think you should change the header.)
----------------------------------------- I think the people of Madrid (probably all Spain) have got A LOT better over the last decades though. Don't you agree? I spent a lot of time in Madrid, for family reasons back in the late 1980s. I was just a kid and literally HAD to learn basic Spanish to be able to get around and communicate. NOBODY (it seemed) could speak English. But recently I've visited there on business a few times, and I have found that a lot of people are able and willing to communicate in English; including people in service jobs. I was told that the reason for the lack of English skills in the up until recently was due to the right wing nationalistic Franco regime which reigned there for several decades. It had some issue with English and kept it out of schools. I recall that a lot of Spanish people back then could speak French. They had learnt that in school. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6121 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 22 of 33 21 July 2010 at 3:42am | IP Logged | |||||
Agreed. A while ago there was a similar article written about the French, that went as far as to question their intelligence for not being able to speak English. I think the question that needs to be asked is "why should they" rather than why can't they. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6382 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 23 of 33 21 July 2010 at 5:33am | IP Logged | |||||
Lett's be careful with that line of thought or you get lots of sad and sometimes vaguely racist attempts by Americans to just add o's on the end of things and pretend that's Spanish. "Do you-o espeak-o English-o?" 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5328 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 24 of 33 21 July 2010 at 5:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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