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Post by sukkafu on Jun 17, 2003 15:02:35 GMT -5
oui mademoiselle? you may be a madamoiselle, but ''we'' aren't! ;D french is such a beautiful romantic language- and so useless in america. i took spanish when the rest of the class took french- and i was laughed at- well i guess the 33 million latinos in the u.s. vote with me!  |
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jun 17, 2003 19:43:50 GMT -5
I'm taking French as my required foreign language. I don't want to take Spanish. I tried it in 7th grade and I didn't like it enough to want to take it again.
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Post by sukkafu on Jun 18, 2003 3:14:01 GMT -5
o, que lastima! espanol es muy bonita! la lengua de mucha gente famosa!
some famous spanish speakers-
george w. bush
jennifer lopez
antonio banderas
salma hayek
alex rodriguez
george lopez
freddie prinze jr.
cameron diaz
ricardo montalban
ricky martin
mark anthony
sammy sosa
jimmy smits
eric estrada
thalia
shakira
paul rodriguez
cesar romero
oscar de la hoya
carlos santana
lorenzo lamas
and a zillion others- spanish is really beautiful!
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Post by crella25 on Jun 21, 2003 0:11:17 GMT -5
Goya oh boya is the extent of my spanish. My children speak it very well. I took French, useless you say. I was able to say quite a bit about my ex without tainting his image to our children. And I got load off my shoulders.
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jun 21, 2003 1:38:55 GMT -5
Non-famous French speakers:
My freshman orientation instructor ;D
I don't know why, but I've always wanted to learn French.
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Post by sukkafu on Jun 21, 2003 2:20:47 GMT -5
it is a beautiful language, as is italian and portuguese and spanish, the romantic languages.
the practicality of it is not as highly esteemed as its beauty. unless you are french, go to france frequently, or to quebec or haiti or tahiti frequently, you won't remember much of it.
in spanish , you get a very lovely language that you can practice in nearly every state and in north, central, south americas and europe and parts of africa and the phillipines.
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Post by kalisa2 on Jun 21, 2003 9:00:33 GMT -5
hey, IRLM, I with you. I took French and loved every minute. It also got me some delicious goodies in Martinique  , knowing what to ask for... And made learning Spanish later a breeeeeze! |
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Post by sukkafu on Jun 21, 2003 10:48:42 GMT -5
cool deal! martinique is a nice carribean paradise.
other than your martinique trip, do you use your french? do you practice it at all?
i use spanish every single day of my life. in business and with family. i never thought when i took it in school that it would ever come in handy.
my mother speaks italian and understands quite a bit of spanish because of the similarities.
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Post by iratherlikeme on Jun 21, 2003 13:51:09 GMT -5
Of course you use it every day, because you have that opportunity. You married someone who speaks Spanish and you have Spanish-speaking family members.
I don't encounter a lot of Spanish-speaking people down here (I hear they're mostly farther north in this state). Spanish is a practical language, especially now, but chances are they know how to speak English as well (if they don't I suggest they learn at least enough to get by) so I'm not going to worry about communication.
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Post by sukkafu on Jun 22, 2003 4:23:07 GMT -5
you are correct, southern niece, and mississippi is not the capital of latino population, although i hear it is growing down in south.
english is barely spoken correctly by our native population, let alone immigrants.
i only started to speak spanish daily when i moved back to los angeles and in my job i needed to use it for our company's pest control biz. that was in 1981 and i met elise in 1983.
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Post by Aba21 on Jun 24, 2003 13:35:20 GMT -5
i took french in school also but I speak Italian cuse it's such a beautiful language.
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Post by sukkafu on Jun 24, 2003 16:39:47 GMT -5
thank you! and italian is close enough to spanish!
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