"Learning Spanish in HS is good because..." BULLS00T!

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JS80

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I can tell you that as a 25 year old Los Angeleno I regret not doing more than the requirement in HS and not taking it throughout college.
 

Atheus

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Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: illusion88
If you lived where there are a lot of Mexican immigrants you would be more than willing to learn this language. Besides, traveling in South America is 100 times easier if you speak Spanish.

I have no desire to travel anywhere outside of the US or speak any language other then English.

Why not :confused:

you must have pretty low ambitions for your life...

In the future they will call it Basic and the whole Earth will speak it.

1.6 billion red Chinese disagree with you.
 

upsciLLion

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Originally posted by: Atheus
In the future they will call it Basic and the whole Earth will speak it.

1.6 billion red Chinese disagree with you.

A lot of those Chinese speak English. So many, in fact, that there are more English speakers in China than in the US. ;)
 

Atheus

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Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Originally posted by: Atheus
In the future they will call it Basic and the whole Earth will speak it.

1.6 billion red Chinese disagree with you.

A lot of those Chinese speak English. So many, in fact, that there are more English speakers in China than in the US. ;)

Really? That would surpise me. Especially if that's fluent speakers, which I doubt...

Anyway, they all also speak Manderin, and there are *far* more speakers of Manderin than any other language.
 

ColdFusion718

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Yeah no sh*t! We're making high school kids focus on a foreign language while they are getting killed in English. People continue to suck more and more with the English language, especially in its written form (you people know who you are).

Sure, kids should learn at least one foreign language. Actually, they aren't they required to learn multiple languages at a young age like the kids in Europe?
 

thomsbrain

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wow... just... wow.

spanish-speakers DO have to learn English in school. it's called ESL. ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. And for native speakers, they have a wonderful class called "English" that you have to take all through school.

It's too bad for you that you let xenophobia keep from you from investing in a useful tool. I took 5 years total Spanish and have retained little, but it wasn't for lack of trying. Now that my work and personal life have put me into more contact with people from other cultures, I really wish I had learned it more effectively. Just as an example, I became close friends with a guy who was born in Mexico but raised here. He speaks fluent English, but not all of his family does. So when I was included in family gatherings, I was the odd one out, and had to have people translate for me. In high school it never would have occurred to me that I might find myself in such a position. But real life isn't high school, little boy. You don't get to segregate yourself into tiny groups according to your prejudices. There are no jocks, geeks, or "furners" in real life. There are only those who work well with others and those who don't. Which group do you want to be a part of?
 

Dumac

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I feel embarrassed for perhaps being in the same grade as you.

How could you discard and entire language, culture, and group of people? What besides an affliction of severe laziness would persuade you into not wanting to learn at least a little of another language? What is so excruciatingly 'backwater' about Spanish when compared to the other languages that you say you know?

All languages are beautiful and unique.

Except Spanish apparently. ;)
 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: illusion88
If you lived where there are a lot of Mexican immigrants you would be more than willing to learn this language. Besides, traveling in South America is 100 times easier if you speak Spanish.

Most people in South America speak Portugese.

Huh? Only people in Brazil speak Portuguese. Rest of the continent speak Spanish.
 

Jeeebus

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Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: illusion88
If you lived where there are a lot of Mexican immigrants you would be more than willing to learn this language. Besides, traveling in South America is 100 times easier if you speak Spanish.

Most people in South America speak Portugese.

Huh? Only people in Brazil speak Portuguese. Rest of the continent speak Spanish.

well it's actually a fairly accurate number.

Brazil's population is roughly 188 million while the entire population of South America is somewhere around 370 million.

Of course, this would assume that all 188 million people in Brazil speak Portuguese, which I think would be quite the overstatement.
 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: w3stfa11
Originally posted by: dr150
Oye PUTO.

Eres y siempre va ser una pulga retardado que no puede aprender un simple idioma. Que beneficio positivo tu das a la humanidad bendejo, eh?

Tienes que aprender Espanol para la proxima vez que vengo comprar comida de ti que tu me sirves a rodilla en Taco Bell!

Entiendes degendardo? Entiendes PUTITO?
:D

Mods aren't going to check this? Those are some pretty harsh words...

translation?
He is and always will be an idiot that doesn't understand a simple language. What benefit will he be to humanity?

You have to learn Spanish because the next time I come to buy food, you will serve me on your knee in Taco Bell. (got confused with rodilla..., maybe you meant he will serve you on his knees?)

He ended by using a few choice of words... putito is like... female dog, but he's a smaller version of it. By smaller, it's like the difference between an adult and child female.

I'm hoping to minor in spanish for what it's worth.

A Rodillas means on one's knees. Other than that your traslation is pretty close.
I have never encountered the word "degendardo" in my life (I lived in Buenos Aires for 8 years). Maybe he's referring to degenerado? Bendejo? I think it's pendejo. And that last sentence is just poorly constructed.
 

Fritzo

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Typical high school thinking: Why am I learning this, I KNOW I'll never use it.

I thought the same way, now I end up using Spanish every day because of an unexpected job opportunity. You never know what life will deal you- make sure your toolbox is full.
 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: moshquerade [/b]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

I'm hoping to minor in spanish for what it's worth.
thanks.
so putito = bitch(female dog)

?

Closer to little whore. Spanish is gender specific. Generally speaking, words ending in O is male form and A is female form.
 

bsobel

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Originally posted by: RESmonkey
I hear this way too much. I'm taking Spanish in High School.

I feel I will never use this useless backwater language in any way. I will not use this at work, since I will not work in an environment that encompasses Spanish-speakers (who don't speak English). Why learn this language? Because of the influx of Hispanics? That's no reason to learn their linguistics. The only reason I continue to torment myself with Spanish is because of college requirements. Basically, the Board of Education (I do not know if this is Federal or State) requires all colleges to follow some General Education requirement for foreign languages.

WTF?

Why aren't there requirements that supersede a useless foreign language? I guess 'that's how it is, shutup and follow' explains this nuisance.

What about English? HUH? I don't see an English requirement anywhere . The Spanish speakers that don't speak English should be required to learn it, and be tested on it. Not go through loopholes in the system to circumvent these standards.

:|

There was a time where I would have agreed with you (when I was in HS learning Spanish I probably made an almost identical rant to my parents). Today one of my homes is a 1 acre ocean front compound in Mexico, I kinda wish I had paid more attention in HS as it's harder to pick-up new langauges as an adult...

So, from experience I can tell you you don't know where life will take you, so pass the class and stfu ;)


 

sdifox

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Originally posted by: Jeeebus
Originally posted by: sdifox
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
Originally posted by: illusion88
If you lived where there are a lot of Mexican immigrants you would be more than willing to learn this language. Besides, traveling in South America is 100 times easier if you speak Spanish.

Most people in South America speak Portugese.

Huh? Only people in Brazil speak Portuguese. Rest of the continent speak Spanish.

well it's actually a fairly accurate number.

Brazil's population is roughly 188 million while the entire population of South America is somewhere around 370 million.

Of course, this would assume that all 188 million people in Brazil speak Portuguese, which I think would be quite the overstatement.

Lol, I never thought of it that way... I would say most Brazillians do speak Portuguese, except for the native tribe people, some of them learned, most don't.

 

bsobel

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Originally posted by: TruePaige
I learned Latin. I refuse to give into your cheesy spanish speaking.

The richest countries in the world all speak English. Good enough for me.

Spanish seems to be working out pretty well for Carlos Slim Helu (to save you the Googling, the 3rd richest man in the world...)
 

Beev

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This really doesn't have anything to do with "crappy classes" or anything, just my opinion:

I really, REALLY hate the way the Spanish language sounds. I could sh!t out my mouth and make nicer sounds.
 

91TTZ

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Originally posted by: sdifox

Huh? Only people in Brazil speak Portuguese.

Brazil contains the majority of the continent's people. Hence, most of the continent's people speak Portuguese.

Originally posted by: sdifox
Rest of the continent speak Spanish.

French Guiana is a country in South America (right above Brazil) and they speak French.
 

91TTZ

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Originally posted by: Sraaz
This really doesn't have anything to do with "crappy classes" or anything, just my opinion:

I really, REALLY hate the way the Spanish language sounds.

I'm sorry to hear that.



Originally posted by: Sraaz

I could sh!t out my mouth

That's amazing!
 

jwells777

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Garcia Gabriel Marquez...backwater, eh? Hmmm...a few people on the Nobel prize committee might disagree with you on this point....
 

mugs

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OP, you are a moron. I don't think I need to say any more, I'm sure everyone else has already covered it.
 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: CorCentral
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
This just in... OP is an ignorant tool :thumbsdown:

Agreeing with the majority in a thread is not always good.

I agree with him 95%. You're a tool because you cannot read through all 59 posts, just skimming through like most in here do and lay down your opinion?

As for my 5% offset......... It's good to learn a 2nd Language but never supplement BS with anything Hispanic, or you'll get burned. You're in the USA and unless you have a job requiring you to travel from here to wherever, there is NO need to learn a foreign language. ZERO!

That's some of the most ignorant rhetoric I've heard in a while.

There is no NEED to learn another language. No one is forcing you. If anything. it comes off as extremely pathetic since you are CHOOSING to pursue an education at an institution that requires it, and focus the blame on a CULTURE....sorry, but that's just fvkign stupid.

You insult so many people because of a college requirement....and to make things worse people take on this 'holier than thou' mindset, as if this country wasn't built on the backs of people from all he nations of the world.


The power, the strength, the longevity of this nation, what it is that has kept us on top for so many years, is that we are a country of cultures in constant flux.

Accept it.

And watch your mouth.

People WILL NOT hesitate to beat the sh!t out of you for being so ignorant.


BE WISE. Go read a book and expand your minds....


So many great men and women have spent their lives, and even died in the process, to further humanity as a whole. To profess such ignorance as acceptable and do so so arrogantly is like spitting on their graves.



 

Goosemaster

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Originally posted by: RESmonkey
I don't need Spanish to order a burrito. It's my decision to hold on to this language, or not.

Oh, and English isn't my 'only' language, like i said, I speak 2 more. They're just as useful, if not more, then spanish over here. I don't give a rat's behind for the culture. I doubt I'd vacate in some spanish speaking country, too.

I bet I've pissed off most, if not all, of you. Don't care, really. Stating what I want to. Oh, spanish is precious to you? Well, IDK.

So that's all spanish is good for....? and How disrespectful of other cultures yo uare too....


It's not spanish that got me rilled.

It's the fact that you are acting like a little sh!t and inciting hatred.....incredibly responsible, however old you are......

You might think that your words are harmless, but they hurt man.


Sure you have he right to free speech, but you seem to be practicing something else....



It's sad that you might see me as somehow inferior if you saw me speaking spanish....really really sad.
 

KMc

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How visionary of the OP to be able to declare in high school that he will never work in any business situation where knowing Spanish would be useful.

I suppose I could have made the same statement when I was taking high school Spanish, but I would have been horribly wrong as I now work extensively with customers in Mexico, Spain, and all of Latin America.

In fact, not only were my rudimentary Spanish skills incredibly valuable in getting me to where I am today, but I am actually taking more classes in this "useless backwater language", as you refer to it.

Once you get out in the real world and realize that this is an age of global interaction at all levels of communication, hopefully your attitude will change. And if not, well those of us out here in the international business world will have one less ignorant person to deal with.