Thinking on giving up Spanish

[Liquinn3]

Originally Posted by Villa

Te entiendo perfectamente bien amigo mio. Lo importante es practicar.
¿Tu entiendes lo que me escribes?
Yo siempre voy por un masaje de todo el cuerpo y los pies.
Cuesta caro pero vale la pena.

Ve a los tiendas de libros usados para encontrar libros en español usados y baratos.

Practicar es muy importante; me gusta hablar español mas que escribir español xD. Buneo y fantastico, muchas gracias; creo que escribir un idioma es mas difícil. Espanol es muy difícil para mi. ¿Prefiere Inglés o español? :3 ¿Dónde vives? ¿Qué te gusta hacer? ^_^ ¿Tu entiendes lo que me escribes? Me gustan los masajes. ^_^ Hoy es mi cumpleaños. :P Un beso Me gusta su escritura español. Que tengas un buen día.

[Villa]

Originally Posted by Liquinn3

Practicar es muy importante; me gusta hablar español mas que escribir español xD. Buneo y fantastico, muchas gracias; creo que escribir un idioma es mas difícil. Espanol es muy difícil para mi. ¿Prefiere Inglés o español? :3 ¿Dónde vives? ¿Qué te gusta hacer? ^_^ ¿Tu entiendes lo que me escribes? Me gustan los masajes. ^_^ Hoy es mi cumpleaños. :P Un beso Me gusta su escritura español. Que tengas un buen día.

¿Hoy es tu cumpleaños? Me recuerdas de un dicho Mexicano.
El perico dice lo que sabe pero no sabe lo que dice.

[Liquinn3]

Originally Posted by Villa

¿Hoy es tu cumpleaños? Me recuerdas de un dicho Mexicano.
El perico dice lo que sabe pero no sabe lo que dice.

Hola, quiero ir a Mexico en vacaciones pero en abril voy a España/Barcelona con mi madre; ayer compre un libro de español xD . Como estas?

[Villa]

Originally Posted by Liquinn3

Hola, quiero ir a Mexico en vacaciones pero en abril voy a España/Barcelona con mi madre; ayer compre un libro de español xD . Como estas?

Te felicito por tu viaje en España/Barcelona. Acabo de ver una película hecho en Barcelona. Estan hablando mas catalan que español. Puedo entender mas o menos porque hablo español, italiano y tambien portuguese.

[ElPecas]

You may never "go to" the language, but the language can come to you. By knowing Spanish, you can fully enjoy television, literature, and film that is in the Spanish language.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by ElPecas

By knowing Spanish, you can fully enjoy television, literature, and film that is in the Spanish language.

True. Have you by any chance seen Spanish TV (I mean in Spain)? I try to watch, but have not found a single thing which was not total rubbish. That or badly dubbed American films. Hardly an incentive to learn Spanish.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Perikles

True. Have you by any chance seen Spanish TV (I mean in Spain)? I try to watch, but have not found a single thing which was not total rubbish. That or badly dubbed American films. Hardly an incentive to learn Spanish.

That might be totally true, however, I have seen similar behavior from people who resist the thought of changing... call it nationalism or whatever else.

[Premium]

Originally Posted by Perikles

True. Have you by any chance seen Spanish TV (I mean in Spain)? I try to watch, but have not found a single thing which was not total rubbish. That or badly dubbed American films. Hardly an incentive to learn Spanish.

Isn't there a single TV-series that is worth watching? Not dubbed, though.

[poli]

No estoy completamente de acuerdo con Perikles en este caso. He visto varios documentales que cubren sus asuntos en detaille que casi no se ve en programas semejantes anglos.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by Premium

Isn't there a single TV-series that is worth watching? Not dubbed, though.

I haven't found one yet, although I've been looking for years. It is complete and utter rubbish. It's made particularly bad by the insensitive timing of advertisements, very often in the middle of, say, a car chase or some more-then-romantic bedroom scene. What happens is that there are advertisements at regular intervals which last for an increasing time, and almost at the end of a programme there is such a long advertisement slot of indeterminate length, with previews of future programmes, that you never know when the programme has re-started or it's just another advert. Or back to the car chase with no warning.

It's no good changing channels either because all the advertisements are on all (most) channels simultaneously. The advertisments are all for new cars which nobody in Spain can afford, or perfume.

In fact, very often the programme is so boring that during the advertisement break I have forgotten what I was supposed to be watching. I can honestly say that I have never seen the end of any programme.

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Edit: There may be some, as Poli claims, but no mechanism I know of for finding out what or when.