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Juan's english.
It's too damn good.
He could fool a lot of people that he was a native English speaker and my French and Russian look like they're done by a three-year-old.
I feel like such an ugly American. ;_;
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Too eloquent, too surly, too sarcastic. How did he learn all that?
The internet is a most wonderful teacher indeed.
I agree. @Juan: When did you start learning English?
I'm making a related thread about learning languages.
Mexicans can easily learn to speak English.
Since I was 7-ish. I pretty much practiced on my own mostly. My english used to be so much worse back when I started posting, though. I mostly learned by, well, posting on TvT and learning to express what I meant to say without grammatical blunders. Propositions still beat the hell out of me, though.
Although really, seeing people like Noimporta and Set who have a much more readable English style, I can't help but think that people overrate my own English capabilities.
you're going to stretch that joke as if it was Mr Fantastic, huh
> Propositions still beat the hell out of me, though.
You probably mean prepositions.
:P
Fine, fine, it's a stupid joke. I'm sorry if I offended your Venezuelan heritage.
I suppose Juan and Pumpkin speaks the truth. A classmate of mine who had lived in western Mexico since she was 14 tells me she learned English via her local movie rental place.
heh, yeah.
A little bit more to the west. Or is it just that Americans have never seen a map on their lives?
"Since I was 7-ish."
Hmm. I started trying to learn Spanish in 6th grade, like a lot of other people, and it was just significantly harder. I feel like, if I had started at an earlier age (it's sort of surprising that I didn't, seeing as how my dad's Puerto Rican and my parents regularly had discussions in Spanish around the house).
"Mexicans can easily learn to speak English."
"You probably mean prepositions."
I considered calling him on it, but decided it would be petty. :P
"Fine, fine, it's a stupid joke. I'm sorry if I offended your Venezuelan heritage."
I wouldn't be so bugged by this if you hadn't taken a self-righteous stance in regards to similarly offensive jokes.
"Three or four countries", was it?
the thing is, though, that's not exactly a particularly stupid statement. Mexico and the US are close and many people who live in the border try to move to the US, so of course they learn English. And Mexico's government encourages intercultural exchange with the US.
It's funny, I don't think I seriously started learning English till the 6th grade. I had English classes and I was good at them, of course, but I found I started to learn more by reading books in English and playing videogames than by the classes themselves.
^Add one more and you got it, chum. XD
Fun fact: I was better at Russian than English until about second grade.
Maybe I should have surfed more Russian intertube sites....
I was still kidding guys, sheesh.
What country are you from
"the thing is, though, that's not exactly a particularly stupid statement. Mexico and the US are close and many people who live in the border try to move to the US, so of course they learn English. And Mexico's government encourages intercultural exchange with the US."
I know. It was more the context in which he said it than anything.
^ He's Colombian. And sorry if I jumped down your throat a little; it's just that seeing you go all mea culpa about my joke about enjoying Moe and then making "all Hispanics are the same" jokes seemed kinda hypocritical.
Germany.
I had a Spanish class in middle school. It wasn't very good, so I took French two years in high school.
I think I like the former better than the latter.
Can I be from Renais?
*is envious of all this praise*
Anyhow:
I'll second these statements.
Also, ^^ and ^^^^ should totally keep on learning Spanish.
But I don't even like the language that much anyway (purely for aesthetics reasons, though; I just don't like the sound of the language). If I decide to learn another language, it'll be Japanese or something. But then I'd have to get used to an entirely new alphabet.
@Stormtroper: It amuses me because I often forget you even know Spanish in the first place.
In their lives, Juan. It's, "in their lives"
See? Prepositions. Fucking English, why can't you have one word for "on" and "in" rather than this bullshit. >
^
I placed my hand gently on my daughter.
I placed my hand gently in my daughter.
PFFFFFFT
Oh you.
Having one word for seperate concepts is stupid, that's why
...well, can't argue with that.
^They're not entirely separate in Spanish, but whatever.
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