Actually, iLive, Arabic is one of the top...three? languages spoken in the world today. It is very practical even if you don't want to travel there as translation from Arabic can be useful in the workplace of for government contracts /linguistics rambleI've been learning Frech for a couple of years, and I'll probably do German too at some point. But what I really want to learn is Arabic. . .although it's completely and utterly impractical as I don't actually want to to visit any places that they speak it. . .Maybe Morrocco. . ?
Spanish is very common in the US since we have a large Spanish speaking population. So in elementary school they might have a little bit of it, and it's most widely taught in high schools. Like, little kids shows will sometimes incorporate Spanish, with English (Sesame Street, Dora the Explora).I find it strange that some places have "normal" foreign languages to study..
It's all thanks to their monarchy. One of their kings (Louis something or other) had a lisp and all his courtiers copied his way of speaking, and so on, until he had the entire country onto the lisp.I absolutely hated Spanish - I did one term of it and my god, it was horrid. It's not that it sounds bad or anything, but it felt all weird when I spoke it. Srsly, you need one hell of a lisp to speak Spanish xD
That would be Castilian Spanish, I believe. Correct me if I spelled that wrong...It's all thanks to their monarchy. One of their kings (Louis something or other) had a lisp and all his courtiers copied his way of speaking, and so on, until he had the entire country onto the lisp.I absolutely hated Spanish - I did one term of it and my god, it was horrid. It's not that it sounds bad or anything, but it felt all weird when I spoke it. Srsly, you need one hell of a lisp to speak Spanish xD
Four hours? Four hours? That takes some dedication.That would be Castilian Spanish, I believe. Correct me if I spelled that wrong...It's all thanks to their monarchy. One of their kings (Louis something or other) had a lisp and all his courtiers copied his way of speaking, and so on, until he had the entire country onto the lisp.I absolutely hated Spanish - I did one term of it and my god, it was horrid. It's not that it sounds bad or anything, but it felt all weird when I spoke it. Srsly, you need one hell of a lisp to speak Spanish xD
Spain is the only place they speak it that way, I think...though there are differences in every place Spanish is spoken...but in America, we speak it without the lisp most of the time.
Another four hours of Spanish gone through today...and I did enjoy it, it's just hard to keep going in the last twenty minutes.
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