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bartboy9891 said:
How difficult is Italian to pick up when you have no experience whatsoever? I need to take some foreign language credits and I'm interested in pursuing Italian.
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Why not take Spanish? It's an asset when applying for a job in this country.
 
If you live in the US learning Spanish is probably going to be a requirement the way things are going. :glare:
 
KaJuN said:
If you live in the US learning Spanish is probably going to be a requirement the way things are going. :glare:
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Yeah, but Spanish and Mexican are two different things. I speak Spanish. I can't understand a word of what all the Mexicans around here say. It's not Spanish, whatever it is. I know people around here from Spain and South America and I understand them just fine. The Mexicans? Forget about it.
 
Lambos r4ever said:
Why not take Spanish? It's an asset when applying for a job in this country.
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AND... It's very similar to Italian in some ways.

KaJuN said:
If you live in the US learning Spanish is probably going to be a requirement the way things are going. :glare:
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I think I may be one of the only Americans that actually likes the idea of being a bilingual society.

73GMCSprint said:
Yeah, but Spanish and Mexican are two different things. I speak Spanish. I can't understand a word of what all the Mexicans around here say. It's not Spanish, whatever it is. I know people around here from Spain and South America and I understand them just fine. The Mexicans? Forget about it.
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True. Sort of like American and English.
 
No Boss said:
I think I may be one of the only Americans that actually likes the idea of being a bilingual society.
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It's overrated.
 
I guess I don't have anything against being a bilingual society, it's just the reason for the change to be necessary that I don't like. It seems to me that we're catering to illegal aliens by displaying their language beside ours. That makes things easier for them and encourages more to come in.

Disclaimer: I have absolutely positively nothing against legal immigrants and I treat all foreigners I come across as such. If you want to live in our country I'm very happy to have you here. Just do it through legal means please.
 
Urgh just found out i gotta do a family thing in the middle of fucking nowhere, i'll be gone for a few days probably without 'tubes. They don't tend to have internet in hotels in total shitholes.
 
73GMCSprint said:
Yeah, but Spanish and Mexican are two different things. I speak Spanish. I can't understand a word of what all the Mexicans around here say. It's not Spanish, whatever it is. I know people around here from Spain and South America and I understand them just fine. The Mexicans? Forget about it.
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Is that because of the accent, style, pace or something else? I'm taking Spanish 101 right now and am curious to know what the differences are.
 
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