Spanish Speakers

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Do you speak Spanish?

  • Yes, I am bilingual.

    Votes: 4 4.7%

  • Yes, almost bilingual.

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Yes, good enough for an average conversation.

    Votes: 8 9.4%

  • I know only a few words and phrases.

    Votes: 29 34.1%

  • Not at all or not good enough for a conversation.

    Votes: 43 50.6%
  • Total voters
    85
JBCustomPens

JBCustomPens

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Does anyone here speak spanish? If so, how well?

I am pretty proficient at it. I've taken two years of formal classes and have many amigos que solo habla espanol.
 
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took 4 years in high school, then spent some time working in Miami, now in construction so need a bit.... I have a couple of good Mexican restaurants nearby that will not allow me to speak English now that they know I can get by....good practice.
 
Extremely few Spanish speakers in my neck of the woods - I recall some Latin, ancient Greek and German from university though...

Oh,and most Canadians know some French from school...Spanish just isn't as useful in my part of the world. Mind you, I live hours or days away from any large cities, so perhaps that's the reason there's so few Spanish speakers...
 
maxwell_smart007 said:
Extremely few Spanish speakers in my neck of the woods - I recall some Latin, ancient Greek and German from university though...

Oh,and most Canadians know some French from school...Spanish just isn't as useful in my part of the world. Mind you, I live hours or days away from any large cities, so perhaps that's the reason there's so few Spanish speakers...
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I don't recall any Spanish Canadians, so I don't think your alone. :biggrin:
 
After 12 years of marriage to a Mexican (meaning actually born in Mexico) about all I can say with certainty is "donde está el baño" while doing the internationally recognized "I gotta go" dance. However I can follow along much better than I can speak likely due to being the good husband and giving up the remote and dutifully watching mindless telenovelas.
 
JBCustomPens said:
maxwell_smart007 said:
Extremely few Spanish speakers in my neck of the woods - I recall some Latin, ancient Greek and German from university though...

Oh,and most Canadians know some French from school...Spanish just isn't as useful in my part of the world. Mind you, I live hours or days away from any large cities, so perhaps that's the reason there's so few Spanish speakers...
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I don't recall any Spanish Canadians, so I don't think your alone. :biggrin:
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Nope, your not alone. My biggest problem is my brain wants to kick me into french instead of spanish when I need it... Oui comes out instead of Si sometimes, and when I was in Panama last month, I caught myself just before biere sil vous plait came out instead of cerveza por favor...:redface:

Moving to TX was a big help in the spanish dept. though...
 
Went to school in Mexico for 3 years when my father worked in the Gulf. Attended the 3rd grade 3 times.....:biggrin::wink:
Started out not knowing anything till I was thrown in school,came back speaking fluent Spanish. Forgot most of what I knew, the (american) Mexicans here dont speak spanish.....
 
Justin, I am still trying to figure out where you are trying to go with this thread? Are you offering jobs to those who speak Spanish or are you trying to start the Spanish conversation on line now? Because , the three lang. I speak is much harder to learn than Spanish. and, also in TX the Spanish lang. here is TexMEx that is much different than the real lang.
 
phillywood said:
Justin, I am still trying to figure out where you are trying to go with this thread? Are you offering jobs to those who speak Spanish or are you trying to start the Spanish conversation on line now? Because , the three lang. I speak is much harder to learn than Spanish. and, also in TX the Spanish lang. here is TexMEx that is much different than the real lang.
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No, just trying to continue some Spanish conversation online. What languages do you speak?
 
"Agui en el sur centro de Tejas ablamos una idioma diferente que la idioma de Mexico"
( Here in South Central Texas we speak a different language than in Mexico)
 
Funny story: When I moved to Tennessee, I was having my house built. Formerly in the construction biz, I can tell a 90 degree corner, the propper slope of a roof and correct angle of a stairway. When I tried to explain what the deal was, the workers pretended they didn't know what I was talking about. THEN IT HAPPENED... The high school and college years of Spanish all kicked in, as if I had learned the entire language the day before. It just came out of my mouth and it really turned heads, even the workers all came to attention. To this day at our neighborhood gatherings, I get teased about having the best built home in the developement. Daggon right I do.

The wife and I also took our first trip out of the country this past year when we went to Cancun, Mexico. I had a great vacation and communicated well with the people there. What a great time.
 
Funny thing is I can read more Spanish than I can speak.... I worked in the international traffic industry for many years and did lots of traffic into South America... I got lots and lots of purchase orders and commercial invoices in Spanish... I learned to figure out a few of the words and phrases.... probably have lost them by now after 5 years of retirement.
 
phillywood said:
Justin, I am still trying to figure out where you are trying to go with this thread? Are you offering jobs to those who speak Spanish or are you trying to start the Spanish conversation on line now? Because , the three lang. I speak is much harder to learn than Spanish. and, also in TX the Spanish lang. here is TexMEx that is much different than the real lang.
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Phillip,
The last 10 years I worked I was the forwarding manager with an export packing company in Houston... most of our plant were Mexican and Central American nationals... the plant manager(packing manager) was Argentine. He spoke very good English, but most of the workers in the plant either spoke broken English or Spanish... they seemed to understand instructions in English, but always answered in Spanish or their broken English... I was listening to Carlos (plant manager) giving instructions one day and commented that his Spanish sounded different than that of most of the workers... he said his was more Castillian Spanish like they use in Spain, whereas the plant workers had different dialects depending on where they were from, the national mix.. Spanish, Indian and such.... and if they didn't have the right word for something, they just made up a word.... sometimes he had trouble talking to them as well.... I guess that was both TexMex and MexMex???:biggrin: One of the girls in the office, who was of Mexican descent.. called it Spangalo or Spanglish.... in the office the girls used a combination of English and Spanish in their conversations.... 10 words in English.. throw in a few in Spanish... back to English or Vice versa... kept me confused... my only two languages are English and profanity.
 
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I had a couple of years of Spanish in high school, along with 4 years of Latin and a year of French. Then 6 years of German in college. Don't remember much of any of them! Use it or lose it. I use my Spanish some here in AZ, but the others are pretty much in long term storage. I suspect if I were to go to Germany, the German would come back because I had so much of it.

Sharon
 
Hucifer said:
JBCustomPens said:
maxwell_smart007 said:
Extremely few Spanish speakers in my neck of the woods - I recall some Latin, ancient Greek and German from university though...

Oh,and most Canadians know some French from school...Spanish just isn't as useful in my part of the world. Mind you, I live hours or days away from any large cities, so perhaps that's the reason there's so few Spanish speakers...
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I don't recall any Spanish Canadians, so I don't think your alone. :biggrin:
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Nope, your not alone. My biggest problem is my brain wants to kick me into french instead of spanish when I need it... Oui comes out instead of Si sometimes, and when I was in Panama last month, I caught myself just before biere sil vous plait came out instead of cerveza por favor...:redface:

Moving to TX was a big help in the spanish dept. though...
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When I was in high school I went directly from my second year spanish class to my first year french class with 10 minutes between.

"Un momento, s'il vous plait!"

and verb conjugations tended to switch languages mid-stream. The two languages are just too similar. After the first quarter I switched to a different french class with another class in between. Much better.

Sharon
 
maxwell_smart007 said:
Extremely few Spanish speakers in my neck of the woods - I recall some Latin, ancient Greek and German from university though...

Oh,and most Canadians know some French from school...Spanish just isn't as useful in my part of the world. Mind you, I live hours or days away from any large cities, so perhaps that's the reason there's so few Spanish speakers...
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Don't worry, after they have taken over America they'll be headed your way!



Scott (I'd be better off as an illegal) B
 
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