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Old March 04, 2011, 08:09 AM
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Realmente, porque lo estudié en el colegio, es el lenguaje de moda desde hace varias décadas. Antes fue el francés, mis padres estudiaron francés en el colegio....

Aprendí alemán porque me pareció interesante saber una segunda lengua para conseguir empleo más fácilmente.
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Old March 04, 2011, 08:38 AM
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Realmente, porque lo estudié en el colegio, es el lenguaje de moda desde hace varias décadas. Antes fue el francés, mis padres estudiaron francés en el colegio....

Aprendí alemán porque me pareció interesante saber una segunda lengua para conseguir empleo más fácilmente.
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(Corregime!) ¡No sabo si 'corregime' es correcto!

¿No hay mucho español por internet? Asumí que todo la información en inglés por internet, sea disponible en español también. ¡Qué fastidio!

¿Es inglés muy importante para muchos trabajos? Quiero que trabajar en Sudamérica en el futuro, mi tía está allí y me dije que las programas voluntarias necesitan con urgencia personas quienes hablan inglés y español.
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Estudio español porque lo estoy aprediendo en la escuela.


I'm taking Honors Spanish 3 and thinking of taking AP Spanish but since I don't even talk much at all ....

we're learning the subjunctive in Spanish right now. :S

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(Corregime!) ¡No sabo sé si 'corregime' es correcto!
Corregidme -> it's used mostly in Spain.
Corrígeme -> used mostly in Latin American countries.
Corregíme (I hope I didn't misspell it) -> I think it's used in Argentina.

¿No hay mucho español por (I'd say "en") internet? Asumí que toda la información en inglés por internet, sea estaba disponible en español también. ¡Qué fastidio!

¿Es inglés muy importante para muchos trabajos? Quiero que trabajar en Sudamérica en el futuro, mi tía está allí y me dijó que los programas voluntarios necesitan con urgencia personas quienes que hablen inglés y español.
Hope you don't mind the corrections. Your Spanish is very good.
Certainly, English is a must for many jobs nowadays, that's why I'm trying to learn it.
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I know that this post was created specially for Spanish thread, but I wanna give my own opinion.

I like the learn English because at least in my case this language is a needed for me for my job, when I didn't know English language, I lost some job opportunities, thereby that kind to jobs needed to know the language, that was the motive for that I decided to learn this language, later with the cross of the time, I understand the language clarify and I liked it me.

Then for that reason I decided to learn this language, since today when I'm from Mexico, I'm habited to use this language and all the days I procure to use this language in my work and I speak with much people of different countries, of course they have to speak me in English solely.
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Es necesario saber idiomas. Si eres inglesa y vas a trabajar en Sudamérica, es necesario que sepas español, porque las personas mayores y los niños no hablan inglés, y los jóvenes no todos. Por lo tanto, saber español es indispensable, y saber inglés sólo un plus.

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Pues, la primera razón por la que empecé a estudiar español era porque es el segundo idioma principal de los EE.UU. Después, su belleza y profundidad me atraían.
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Es necesario saber idiomas. Si eres inglesa y vas a trabajar en Sudamérica, es necesario que sepas español, porque las personas mayores y los niños no hablan inglés, y los jóvenes no todos. Por lo tanto, saber español es indispensable, y saber inglés sólo un plus.

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Really you believe that?

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Estoy aprendiendo español para muchos propósitos....
(1) Intenté aprender español hace 20+++ años pero no aprendí nada! Quiero intentar nuevamente....
(2) Hay mucha gente donde trabajo que habla español como lengua nativa. Muchos de ellos no hablan inglés. Quiero hablar con ellos en español.
(3) Tengo algunos amigos que hablan español como lengua nativa. Quiero saber más de su cultura.
(4) Cuando aprendo más español, deseo aprender aún más español.
(5) Cuando aprendo más español, aprendo más de la cultura de los paises donde se habla español, ¡y me encantan las culturas hispanicas!

Hay más, pero esas son las razones más importantes.
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@Lou Ann: Excellent!


I wasn't given a choice... My parents put me to study English when I was a young child, and I've found I enjoy the never ending process.
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@Angélica: I consider you blessed to have parents like that. The attitude in my home state was pretty apathetic around learning a second language while I was growing up. Sadly, to a large extent it still is.
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@Lou Ann: Excellent!
Seriously? No mistakes? Amazing!! Thanks, Malila!!

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@Angélica: I consider you blessed to have parents like that. The attitude in my home state was pretty apathetic around learning a second language while I was growing up. Sadly, to a large extent it still is.
Cloudy - you grew up in the States, right? Not many of us were encouraged to thoroughly learn a second language when we were younger, don't you agree?
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@Cloud: That was (is) the attitude of many parents here... Learning English (as it's become some sort of lingua franca) is necessary for those who want to have a wider scope.
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Muy interesante Me encanta español, en mi opinion es la lengua con más belleza... especialmente español mejicano, pero es muy dificil a entender.

Tengo un cuéstion, ¿cómo suena español cuando hablar con un acento inglés?
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@LydiaElizabeth,

It depends on the person who's speaking.
You may take a look at youtube and you'll find a lot of people who are learning Spanish. (Search for "Mi acento español" and you'll get some examples)
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Pues yo vivo en España, así que es lógico que quiera mejorar mi español. (Digo "lógico" y no "necesario" porque hay muchos ingleses que viven por aquí y muestran que es posible vivir aquí sin hablar casi nada).
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It depends on the person who's speaking.
You may take a look at youtube and you'll find a lot of people who are learning Spanish. (Search for "Mi acento español" and you'll get some examples)
Bien, pero, a un mejicano ó un español, ¿es el acento inglés atractivo ó desagradable? Por ejemplo, creo que un mejicano hablando inglés tiene un acento muy atractivo porque suena romántico y exótico, pero un aléman hablando inglés suena desagradable y seco...
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The English accent sounds nice to me as long as I can follow the conversation. Anyways, I'm glad when English speakers make an effort to talk to me in Spanish, no matter if I understand or not.
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For that matter, could someone answer the same question about a Yankee's accent when speaking Spanish?
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