Cultural and Linguistic: Strange things
For some reason, I felt like I should try to pick up (some) Spanish again. I cracked open my beginner's textbook and looked through the pages, trying to understand the words, grammar, and sound them out.
I started laughing when I realized I couldn't pronounce "culturales" correctly. (Hint: it's the l's not the r's.) Then I realized that as far as languages go, European languages are the ones I have almost no experience with. I don't get exposure to it except in writing and I don't know anyone that can speak them except teachers.
I didn't even know what Spanish really was, until I took it in high school. (And I know even less about it, culture-wise.) Everyone keeps saying that it's close to Tagalog and I want to kick every single person that thinks just because their vocabulary is similar that the grammar and pronunciation doesn't make a huge ass difference. (A vocabulary I have little basis for, I might add.)
I would add French onto the list of languages I have an interest in, but studying in a way that I understand is difficult at best. Not to mention that for some reason, the verbs seem harder, but that might be due to the spelling differences, which I'm still trying to grasp. It's educational, to say the least, though.
I started laughing when I realized I couldn't pronounce "culturales" correctly. (Hint: it's the l's not the r's.) Then I realized that as far as languages go, European languages are the ones I have almost no experience with. I don't get exposure to it except in writing and I don't know anyone that can speak them except teachers.
I didn't even know what Spanish really was, until I took it in high school. (And I know even less about it, culture-wise.) Everyone keeps saying that it's close to Tagalog and I want to kick every single person that thinks just because their vocabulary is similar that the grammar and pronunciation doesn't make a huge ass difference. (A vocabulary I have little basis for, I might add.)
I would add French onto the list of languages I have an interest in, but studying in a way that I understand is difficult at best. Not to mention that for some reason, the verbs seem harder, but that might be due to the spelling differences, which I'm still trying to grasp. It's educational, to say the least, though.