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#54195 - 07/11/03 01:04 PM
El 72% de los españoles, incapaz de hablar un idioma extranjero
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#54196 - 07/11/03 03:07 PM
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¡Es buena cosa que no hicieron la misma pregunta a los ciudadanos americanos!
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#54197 - 07/11/03 03:56 PM
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hey everybody ummm...english please
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#54199 - 07/11/03 09:52 PM
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hey everybody booklady hehe if it werent for these perky gremlins i would have seemedto be like one of those racist gringos down in california.
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#54200 - 07/12/03 01:15 PM
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Viajo con un grupo de estudiantes cada verano. Los directores de los viajes nos dijeron que en los paises donde se habla un idioma derivido del alemán, a lo mejor vamos a encontrar a gente que tambien hable inglés. En Italia, Francia y España, nos avisaron que era menos probable poder sobrevivir usando sólo inglés. Francamente, en mi experiencia, encontré a más gente capaz de hablar el inglés en Holanda que en cualquier otro país.
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#54201 - 07/12/03 02:26 PM
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Please, Spanish language in the Spanish language foras and English language here in the English language foras. Thanks!
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#54202 - 07/12/03 03:07 PM
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Sorry...thought since this started in Spanish the author had meant for it to go into the Spanish language discussion section! I pretty much agree with the article. I don't think that Spaniards in general speak other languages as much as people in other countries do. I have to say the same for France and Italy as well. Yes, certainly folks who work in the tourist industry speak English, but I can't say that the average guy on the street is likely to speak English. I can't say whether or not they are likely to be fluent in other languages, though. Maybe they all speak French! I think it is a blessing that they didn't take the same survey in the US! I am not even sure that folks in the tourist industry here speak anything but Spanish and English. I don't know what someone from another country would do if s/he didn't speak English!
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#54203 - 07/12/03 04:59 PM
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You're so right, la Maestra. It seems to me that being multilingual is seen with suspicion in many areas of the country. There does not seem to be any groundswell of interest to learn a foreign language. If it were not for H.S. and College graduation requirements, there may even be less of an interest in languages in the U.S.
No wonder Spanglish persists!
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#54204 - 07/12/03 05:06 PM
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hey everybody
to be honest in my opinion theres nothing wrong that a person is not bilingual. im tri-lingual by chance,and thats good.i think we shouldnt critize a person based on being a good monoglot or not. if spaniards are not bilingual in general that dont mean ****. anyway my relatives in ortigueira and alcala de henares know 5 languages.english,galego,espanol,francais and theyre now very fluent in portuguesh
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