That is a very relevant point, I thought this forum was open to anyone with a tie to Spain, even thouse just planning to live here, as you say.

It should not matter if the member is English or Spanish but with a name like mine, I just gotta be Spainsh.

I have put you down as (another) wind-up poster, there have been quite a few on here since I joined, can spot em a mile off. For some reason this forum seems to attract them more than others

If you dish it out, be prepared to take it.

José Luís Fernandez Sanchez.

Am I close??

Very very close, the first 3 are correct. Well done, although for those know quite a lot of Spainsh it is easy, at least the JL part is.
Go to the top of the class, nena.

So are you saying that I am English pretending to be Spanish or what???

Of course it shouldnt matter what nationality the poster is

Anyone who says different must be a xenophobe

If it were up to me, I'd let people post in both Spanish and English languages (and Catalan, Basque, Gallego, Valenciano etc if they want). After all the forum is about living in Spain and the exposure to the languages would help people too

I can see it would make the moderator's life difficult though!

It would make my life difficult, never mind the MODS

What he said

I have a reasonable level of fluency in Spanish, but I think in English, and I also try to just think before I open my mouth, which doesn’t always work. However, Spanish people who don’t know me, could never think of me as Spanish because of my appearance. I’m a tall man with fair hair and blue eyes.

I love to see the look of surprise on their faces when I speak to them in my near-fluent Spanish, and their whole attitude changes in a nano second, for the better, usually. It happened this morning. The waitress looked shocked when I asked for my Americano and added, ‘tostado con tomate y ajo’, making the rubbing motion with my hand on the ajo word.

I’m not being flash, it took me more than 15 years to learn that.

maybe they'd let us have just one thread in castellano

Or better still join a Spanish forum. This is after all a British speaking forum There is even someone on here who keeps sending me private messages in spanish and cannot use the tilde Don't very often meet a Spaniard who writes without one do you

Looks like you've never used an IRC server.

|No I am not computer literate, infact I don't know what you are refering too Does this mean they do not use any accents too? All the Spaniards I know would consider not using a tilde as a spelling mistake, what do I know, I am only a Brit

I dont use any apostrophies either, none of my posts have any I alway write dont, wont, cant , I do know where they go, but as Im not a typist it seems a lot of bother . And I am sure I am not the only one that does this.

I just skip them, the same in Spanish, as long as I am understood I am not too bothered if the apostrophies are in or not, I didnt think Id be "marked" for missing them off.

So as I omit them in both languages, what, does that mean??
It is also considered a spelling mistake in English to miss off the apostrophy, so explain that one????

Does that mean I cant speak English either, I dont think so.