stelyn27

Hi everybody,
Does anybody on BE speak a second language, if did anybody use the rosetta stone learning process. Do you use your skills every day, and is latin american spanish he best to go for (intend to move to sw/w texas or new mexico).

thanks

Steve

AdobePinon

All I can tell you is that northern New Mexicans speak a dialect of Castilian Spanish. Spaniards sometimes get a little frustrated with them.

Ozzidoc

Hi

I speak French - which is of no use in California.

I'm learning Spanish at uni, and have done a course which took me from nearly zero to pretty fluent in five days at: http://www.bajacal.com/ of course once I'd left Mexico, I started to forget it all.

You could try a local community college for evening classes and supplement that with Spanish tapes. Read local papers in Spanish, and listen to local radio too...it all helps.

dakota44

even Latin American Spanish can vary from country to country. Much of South America looks down on the Spanish spoken in Mexico. I bought this program and find it very good. http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/

It has a computer cd that will download and store on your pc and run without the cd. It also has numerous audio cd's that I like to use with a headset while I am lieing on the sofa during some quiet time.

Spanish is a fun language, but it will require effort to get used to the masculine and feminine words as well as the verb placements. Not to mention the pronunciation of some letters. But once you learn it, you will enjoy it...I think. lol I am still learning.

gardnma

Yes, as a matter of fact.
I speak English and American, it comes in quite handy at drive-thru's (-ough's)

gdjones

English (UK) not English (US) which confuses the hell out of me, oh and a little Welsh which hasnt helped me thus far but i'm sure it will soon, it can only be a matter of time...

anabella

If you speak Welsh you'll have an advantage over English speakers if you want to learn Spanish.. You'll be able to pronounce the "RR" and the "J"..

gardnma

Yes, they both have mastered the fine art of expelling spit as they speak......

A towel anyone?......

Just Jenney

The "J" is generally pronounced like an "H" in English, so that would be easy to any native English speaker. For instance, jefe (boss) is pronounced "HEH-fay", joven (youth) is pronounced "HO-ven", etc.

However, the letters "J" and "U" together are pronounced more like an "HW" sound -- for example, juevo (egg) is phonetically pronounced "HWAY-vo" in English.

~ Jenney

Maz

I speak fluent French, leant from the age of 3 or so. I keep it up by helping to run a meetup.com group locally for French speakers.

anotherlimey

I'm trying to learn Spanish, I'm not bad but when I forget something my brain seems to use German rather than English...

"Quiero ein beer, por favor...." !

dakota44

not beer...cerveza .. which I know you know...lol...and which, interestingly, is usually pronounced thervetha or cervetha. all depends on the country.

also, in some places the double l...ll...is pronounced like y, and in others like j

the word llama is pronounced either yama or jama

simongb

I speak Spanish and German. I do use Spanish regularly in my job. I do not use German much (shame, because that was my favourite). Anyway, I would recommend learning Spanish. It should be very useful down there.

dakota44

I much prefer Spanish to German. German is so gutteral. And I'm half German. Spanish is much nicer, and Portuguese is twice so.

Toontje

I speak dutch, english, german and french, also some spanish. I used to be fluent in portuguese and I can get around with italian.