Writing or speaking, what's more important?

[Liquinn3]

What's more important? Speaking or writing Spanish?

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Liquinn3

What's more important? Speaking or writing Spanish?

They are both definitely more important than the other. Reading helps too.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Liquinn3

What's more important? Speaking or writing Spanish?

I would say that that is a trick question.

The first impulse would be to choose "speaking" because, like children, people who do not know how to read and write, they still learn to speak English. In the case of children they will pick up English in a way that will make them speak like a native. In the case of adults, they will pick up English according to their own shortcomings, but will speak from "getting to communicate" to "relatively well".

But, if you already know how to read and write in your language, I'd say you have an advantage over a kid who doesn't. Right?

So to me, both are important and at the same time.

[Liquinn3]

Well, what I like about Spanish is if you can write it you can speak it. How are you going to speak it if you can't write it?

Saludos.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Liquinn3

Well, what I like about Spanish is if you can write it you can speak it. How are you going to speak it if you can't write it?

I speak German so that often native Germans don't realise I'm not German. Yet I've never written a single thing in German. I used to read a lot.

Is that different for Spanish?

[Premium]

Originally Posted by Liquinn3

How are you going to speak it if you can't write it?

I speak Albanian and Serbian fluently but I can't write it. Not to mention the Cyrrilic script.

Originally Posted by Perikles

I speak German so that often native Germans don't realise I'm not German.

High German?

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Premium

High German?

Yes

[Premium]

Originally Posted by Perikles

Yes

Impressive. I tried to fake it occasionally but my Austrian accent is too thick.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Premium

Impressive. I tried to fake it occasionally but my Austrian accent is too thick.

It doesn't work with a group of Germans from the same town or area, because they concentrate on my unusual accent. But in a group of Germans from various areas where they expect different dialects, often they don't realise I'm a foreigner. If they ask, they always guess I'm Swedish. I don't know why.

[Premium]

Originally Posted by Perikles

It doesn't work with a group of Germans from the same town or area, because they concentrate on my unusual accent. But in a group of Germans from various areas where they expect different dialects, often they don't realise I'm a foreigner. If they ask, they always guess I'm Swedish. I don't know why.

I don't even know how a Swedish accent sounds like.
I was sometimes mistaken for being from South Tyrol, because I can't pronounce the guttural R.