Spanish or Latin in H.S.?

[purbeast0]

if you need to convince him to take spanish still, just have him tune into telemundo or univision while some novelas are on.

if those chicks don't convince him to take spanish, well then your boy probably plays for the other team (and i'm not talking baseball here).

 

[Homerboy]

if you need to convince him to take spanish still, just have him tune into telemundo or univision while some novelas are on.

if those chicks don't convince him to take spanish, well then your boy probably plays for the other team (and i'm not talking baseball here).

LOL:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Though I think the news casters tend to be way hotter.

 

[skyking]

I took spanish and still use it 37 years later. I know a fair bit of latin too but not through formal study.
I'd say spanish, but first I'd let him choose and not put some pressure on about one or the other.

 

[Homerboy]

I took spanish and still use it 37 years later. I know a fair bit of latin too but not through formal study.
I'd say spanish, but first I'd let him choose and not put some pressure on about one or the other.

No pressure being applied.
Just giving him info to make an informed decision.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I only took 1 year of high school Spanish (though in middle school we had Spanish classes too) ...

I am not fluent, but can read Spanish decently enough. It can be useful from time to time. It was very useful back when I worked at a help desk job about 15 years ago. We have stores in Puerto Rico, and knowing a little bit of conversational Spanish really made those calls MUCH smoother. We had a couple of fluent Spanish speakers on the team, but, I knew enough to get by. It was really useful especially overnight when there would almost never be an on site fluent Spanish speaker on our team.

Anyhow, Learning some latin would be useful for some jobs (biology or medicine maybe?), but, learning Spanish as some real life practical value that you can use day to day. I would recommend Spanish as likely being more useful, however, if you learn one, the other will be easy enough to follow since they are quite similar.

 

[Imp]

I thank god everyday that I didn't get exploded... and for having English as my primary language:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2...akes-off-with-changes-to-french-language.html

So, everyone now has to remember 2000 new spellings in French? So glad English doesn't use accents and relies on memorizing inconsistent ways of spelling particular words instead...

 

[Mike64]

So, everyone now has to remember 2000 new spellings in French?

Eh, most of them look like simplifications to move things more in line with what people are prone to do in everyday usage anyway. Like when Greece adopted the "monotonic" system of accentuation 30-ish years ago, finally "officially" dropping 3-4 accent marks from the written language completely and severely limiting a couple more to special cases, a mere 2 millenia or so after they'd ceased to have any significance as far as actual pronunciation was concerned.:whiste:

 

[sdifox]

I thank god everyday that I didn't get exploded... and for having English as my primary language:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2...akes-off-with-changes-to-french-language.html

So, everyone now has to remember 2000 new spellings in French? So glad English doesn't use accents and relies on memorizing inconsistent ways of spelling particular words instead...

They should just update the Quebec language police out of existance.

 

[Imp]

They should just update the Quebec language police out of existance.

Don't you bring your dirty pasta or sandwiches into Quebec, you heathen.