languages

[vihris-gari]

Originally Posted by cookiecutter

I speak English

omg are you serious??

[WeAreInFlames]

English (duh), taking Chinese (3 years), and think I could survive in China indefinitely as far as language skills go. 2 years of French in 7-8 grade, but don't remember shit.

[Cythraul]

Originally Posted by vihris-gari

Does anyone here (i.e. Cythraul) know of a decent Spanish-language forum (ideally music-related)? I've been wanting to join one for a while, to work on my Spanish skills. I figure it's the best way to do it short of taking another (expensive) class, or moving to another country. I took four years of Spanish in high school, and haven't really practiced it since then (been almost five years now).

I found this site - http://www.metalminos.com/foro/index.php - which looks reasonably useful, although there doesn't seem to be any intelligent discussion going on there, and it seems to be mainly focused on file-sharing.

So yeah, if any of you could find me a decent forum, I'd be much appreciative.

I wish I could help you but I'm afraid I can't. I've never posted on nor looked for any Spanish speaking forums. I very much prefer to speak in English. I only use Spanish when speaking to family members that aren't so good with English and the monolingual Mexican bastards that come into my job. Perhaps you should try hanging out with some native Spanish speakers? I don't know how easy this would be for you, since perhaps you live in a very Whitey McWhitebread part of the country (I've no idea where you live).

[genocide roach]

i speak german fairly well and i know some broken dutch and japanese. i'm currently learning arabic. i work with an iraqi, so with him and rosetta stone, i should do pretty well.
~gR~

[vihris-gari]

Originally Posted by Cythraul

I wish I could help you but I'm afraid I can't. I've never posted on nor looked for any Spanish speaking forums. I very much prefer to speak in English. I only use Spanish when speaking to family members that aren't so good with English and the monolingual Mexican bastards that come into my job. Perhaps you should try hanging out with some native Spanish speakers? I don't know how easy this would be for you, since perhaps you live in a very Whitey McWhitebread part of the country (I've no idea where you live).

Not particularly easy. I know, like, one hispanic person through my fraternity, and I'm not sure if she's a native Spanish speaker or not (doesn't seem to have an accent, anyway). And I don't really know her well enough to be on a "hey, let's practice Spanish together" sort of basis.

I'll probably just settle on a forum eventually.

[V.V.V.V.V.]

English, took around 6 years of Spanish but don't remember too much, took 3 years of Latin and I still know some of it. I don't retain knowledge of languages very well though.

[cookiecutter]

Originally Posted by vihris-gari

omg are you serious??

Její kulturou, ekonomickou situací i životní úrovní! Přesvědčte se o jejích přírodních krásách a zasaďte ji do geopolitického kontextu.

[Rumpole]

I can speak a fair bit of French and and some Japanese.

[metal_wrath]

Teaching myself German for a few months now. I don't find the language very difficult actually. It has been great so far.

[sevag00]

I know very little French from my 7-8-9-10 grade. I believe that learning Chinese is a waste of time.