The times I've traveled to the USA I always noticed the same.
There are almost no Latinos that you can talk properly with.
All they do is mix parts of English and Spanish in the same sentence, when grammatic are totally different.
Come on! Have more dignity and learn both languages!
dear Mayelita:

You are obviously the ingnorant:
First of all you didn't undersand my question.
And I invite everyone to look at the questions you have made in the past, by clicking at your name and see how bright were they, such as: how do I clarify my dark skin? or what to do with my ugly hair?, etc etc etc
I totally agree with head_blown_apart, that's the kind of answer I was looking for.
I have nothing against the Latinos living in the USA, I just think they should learn both languages properly, English because they now belong to the American society, and proper Spanish to honour their heritage.
Is that too much to ask?
Dear Jefe: Thank you very much for your advices!
I really appreciate the time you spent correcting what I wrote.
I wish everybody would correct someone else when they make a mistake, I never take that wrong.

Which program would I use? I want to have a college level vocabulary in English and Spanish. I noticed that freedictionary.com has audio and yahoo spanish dictionary has audio too. I would like to learn all the words there are in both languages. It seems that people do not understand my words in Spanish so I need to study with audio flashcards. Your help would make me happy. Also many English words are hard to pronunce like ait for example. I also need to study for the sat. Thank you
how do you learn all the verbs then?

What do you think would be a great language for our three member family to learn? My mom and dad really want spanish but I hate spanish! Not spanish people just learning the language! What other languages do you think we could benifit from learning?

Hi -

I'm going into my second year at university and am in the process of choosing my courses, and I'd really like to learn Spanish, Italian and German (or at least how to pronounce them and get a general understanding - I'm a classical singer, and I think having a background for the languages I sing in would be very helpful).
I'm already bilingual - fluent in French and English - I'm a strong student and I pick up language very easily. I would be taking French and Spanish in one semester, Italian and German in the other.
...is this absolutely crazy?
My course load already includes Psychology, Biology, Theatre and Nutrition, but I'd really, really like to learn my way around these languages and will work like crazy in order to do it. Is it possible, or am I going to go insane?

Thanks!
Just to confirm - I'd be taking 5 courses per semester. Two languages, plus three of my others (I have three Psych courses).

i just started an spamish emerson class and it is litteraly the beginning class and the secound day. to give some back ground i am half mexican but never learn spanish (father was more concerned with him learning english) so through the years i learned jack quat and to make it harder my school took me out out language classes in 2nd grade and thus i dident graduate with a language class which the state required. so here i am at 20 trying to learn a language i have been around all my life but cant seem to pick up.

as for math i am starting a beginneing algebra class at a locak cmmunity college.

i cant learn ether why? i have tried 3 spanish programs and as for math had it all through school. so why cant i lean?

i can do writing (essays and such but if its not for class i tend not to try) and i do fine in history and science but not theses 2? why?

my future carrier depends on me having multipul languages and advanced math!
i am not doing another language till i get spanish!

There are a lot of cognates in the ways the consonants and vowels are pronounced but I do not mean these two languages are similar because they're not. Spanish isn't Japanese and Japanese isn't Spanish. They're totally unrelated and have different spelling and grammar rules but the vowels only make the non-difference. So if I can speak Japanese and learn to speak Spanish with a Japanese accent, will I still be heard? And when I say heard, I mean understood.

hebrew http://www.kreuzer-siegfried.de/hilfsmittel/hebr-500-engl.pdf
hebrew, http://www.ujc.org/page.aspx?ID=74408
hebrew, http://www.hebrewonline.com/Hebrew_category/1-1.htm
hebrew,http://www.appliedlanguage.com/languages/hebrew/hebrew_phrases.shtml more hebrew, http://www.jerusalemtourist.com/touristhebrew.htm
Again hebrew, http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hebrew.php, now spanish http://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/spanish.php, http://spanish.speak7.com/spanish_basic_phrases101.htm more spanish, http://www.smartphrase.com/Spanish/sp_general_words_phr.shtml

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languages/spanish/subjects/commonphrases.shtml

Please answer and tell me if this review is helpful. This is english to hebrew in english form, and english to spanish in english form
This is very helpful

I really want to learn a new language online for free and was wandering if anyone could give me any sources to do so...I either want to learn: Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish, or Arabic. If anybody has any place that they know of on the internet that I could learn one of these languages for free that would be great.

I've heard that it's really easy to learn Italian when you know Spanish because they're very similar. I'm basically fluent in Spanish, how quickly could I learn Italian? I pick up languages quite quickly.

I want to broaden my languages. Native language, English of course, but I'm learning Latin at school. I have been taking Latin for the past three years and have two more years to go, so I can't take Spanish at all through school, so I was wondering what are good sites/books to use to study? Thanks!

This is an stereotype that really bothers me ... I speak spanish and some other languages; When somebody ask me if I'm from Mexico... I get really pissed
Hey Dude... not only in mexico people speak spanish, almost all southamerica but Brasil speak spanish, the you have Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, etc...
And yeah... I can tell when people is from the south, east, west, canada, Australia or England..

I would like to become fluent in Spanish somewhere down the road, but my main priority for right now is to learn enough Spanish to be able to communicate with my students' mono-lingual parents. Are there any good books/tapes/cd-roms/dvds/etc. that would provide kind of a quick fix? I can read Spanish pretty well, but cannot speak, write or understand spoken Spanish very well.
I'm not interested in opinions about whether students should speak English in school; that was clearly not the question. I would like to communicate with my mono-lingual parents, so that their students have the best possible opportunities for success, and thus would like to know what the best way to learn Spanish quickly is, so that I can accomplish that. Also, I'd like to put out there that being literate in more than one language increases your intelligence, your ability to communicate and your ability to understand other cultures and other languages.
And, by the way, I teach Language Arts/Reading

I'd really like to be able to speak another language (aside from Spanish. Every Tom, Dick & Harry knows Spanish.) But I am one of those people who tends to get frusterated easily. What would be the easiest language for me to pick up? (Im thinking German because both English and German are based on constanants and come from the same base language...) Also, good reources to learn that language? Any help is appreciated.
Read please. I'd asked for languages other than spanish.

Okay, so I want to get into a prestigious international business program in college and I need to know a foreign language (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish). I'm already taking Spanish in high school so I figure I should just go with that, but this is a highly competitive program and I've heard if you take one of the lesser taught languages you have a higher chance of getting in. Should I stick with Spanish or learn a new language from scratch? What would be the best language to know?

I am fairly young, and live in the US. So yes, I speak English very fluently.

The language I know the most words/grammar/structure in besides English is Norwegian (speak it at home sometimes with grandparents).

I also am learning Spanish.

I know at least one word from all of these languages:
English
Norwegian
Spanish
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
German
French
Ukrainian
Russian
Korean

I would like to learn a language in the list I just listed (besides English, Norwegian, and Spanish). What would you say? Also, consider the language being useful for jobs, or just plain out interesting.

I am fairly young, and live in the US. So yes, I speak English very fluently.

The language I know the most words/grammar/structure in besides English is Norwegian (speak it at home sometimes with grandparents).

I also am learning Spanish.

I know at least one word from all of these languages:
English
Norwegian
Spanish
Swedish
Danish
Icelandic
German
French
Ukrainian
Russian
Korean

I would like to learn a language in the list I just listed (besides English, Norwegian, and Spanish). What would you say? Also, consider the language being useful for jobs, or just plain out interesting.

I am 16 and from the USA. Where i live, most people speak English and Spanish. I know alot of Spanish, but certain things like all the irregular verbs and verb forms other than what i know seem confusing to me. I am only learning Spanish because of where i live, but i never plan on going to latin america or anything. There are actually other languages i am more interested in. Is it that i am too stupid to learn another language or is it that maybe i am not 100% interested in Spanish and might do better in another language? Thanks!:)

I've noticed the similarity in the languages so I was wondering.
grazie, gracias.

I only have three years of school, and this year I wasted trying to learn French (a quickly made decision I have regretted). But I've always wanted to learn Mandarin, because of my fascination with chinese culture. But my dad says that I should learn Spanish because it's so widely spoken. Plus, I want to learn it as well. I can learn two languages; would it be nigh impossible to learn both of these languages?
"?" I meant I only had three years of highschool left.

I'm in Spanish 2, but my school has this thing where if you take the next exam for the next level of the foreign language (spring exam, not winter), you can skip a level. Like I'm trying to skip to Spanish 4 for next year instead of going on to Spanish 3.

I know it's not a good idea to skip a whole year of a language, but I'm already in French 4 this year and I'll be a senior next year and I really want to take Spanish 4.

The problem is, I think it'll be really hard because the head of the Spanish department at my school told me that in the 18 years she's been teaching here, only 2 kids have successfully skipped from Spanish 2 to Spanish 4 and they were both native Spanish speakers. But I think with enough hard work and determination and my talent for languages, I can do it.

I have the textbook they use (it's called Realidades) and I'm getting the workbook that goes along with it this week.

Any advice to help me prepare for the exam in the spring?

I'm a high schooler, btw...

well , I've just been wondering what to study from these languages : Spanish / German / Arabic / Japanese.

I'm a senior at the moment and I'm thinking about majoring in a language of these. I don't want to study linguistics though! so what do you think ? is it good to major in languages? Is it better to take a language as a minor? I adore languages!!

Thanks in advance.

I've noticed that Spanish has for many language like Filipino dialect Tagalog done the same thing as Anglicization has done to languages Like hindi. However I can not find the concepts name. Is there one?

ive got the chance to learn a new language in school and when im older i want to have a career in languages! im already studying german and spanish at the moment and i am from the uk! so what would be the most useful language to start learning now? xx

Ok so I'm a junior in High School next year and I love languages, I've always wanted to become a doctor, specifically a neurosurgeon since I was in the 4rth grade. So, this summer I'm teaching myself organic chem and a little microbiology as a self project, I also want to learn a language. I already speak Hindi and Punjabi (I'm Indian :]). I take german at school. So, what would be more useful for me Latin or Spanish. Latin since I hear its incredibly helpful when it comes to medicine, or spanish which will let me communicate with a huge population in the US.

I figured I should try to explore new languages. Unless I get a real oddball language or one where the writing system does not accurately describe pronunciation I should be able to go with my plan.
I have a language plan and I want to try to see how quickly I can reach basic fluency in a language.
The problem is; I'm indecisive.
So:
Nothing real oddball; I doubt I can learn a crazy South American or African language like !Xoõ or something.
Something with a good writing system-pronunciation correlation; I don't mean it has to be simple, I'll even accept character languages, I just mean nothing where a small variation where the alphabet doesn't even tell you will change the meaning. I don't even mean tones; I mean something where I have to listen to every single word for a pronunciation so I can get bulk amounts of Vocab from a dictionary.
Don't say French or Spanish; I got those already. I have some very simple knowledge in a lot of languages, not basic fluency yet though so I'll accept those.

I am going to be i hight school next year & you have to take a foreign language. So, i was wondering what is easier spanish or german? Sadly, there is no other languages to choose from.

Thanks for the help.

-heather(:

I have heard that the two subjects are closely related and was wondering if their similarity could cause confusion in the same way that learning several languages at the same time would. I play four instruments (saxophone, trumpet, oboe and drums) and am learning Spanish. I'd love to learn many languages in the future and just hope that I'm not confusing myself.

I'm learning Spanish in university and I have no background in it. I enjoy learning it as I like studying languages. Is it possible to become fluent enough to teach it abroad? Where would I be able to teach it and how?

Thanks

I think I might ask for this for my birthday because I would love to learn another language. I took spanish classes in school but it wasn't very effective.

So my question is: is it really as good as it claims to be? I know a lot of top companies use it and apparently it's supposed to be excellent.

Also: When you buy it, are there multiple languages in the software you can choose from to learn? Or do you have to buy a single language at a time?