Thread 22839617

I live in Arizonia, I have a lot of Mexicans where I live. They speak Spanish and a lot of people around me say I should learn Spanish. I feel like I should learn Spanish, considering I am part Dominican and Puerto Rican. Tell me what you think.

>>22839617 (OP)
Learning a language is intellectually stimulating and worth doing for that reason alone if you're not too busy.

>>22839650
I'm obviously not going to learn a language when I am busy lol

>>22839617 (OP)
No need

>>22839681
Idk I feel like learning Spanish would be useful

I'm rooting for any team against the UEFA teams.

>>22839941
You really do hate them

>>22839938
It's not

>>22840101
Explain

>>22840417
You shouldn't have to learn Spanish, they should have to learn English.

Or you can learn something cool like Chinese and move out of beanerville

>>22840435
Dumb idea to learn Chinese. Learn German, French, or Spanish for Spain or something and get a degree in something useful and fuck off if it's an improved quality of life you're after.

>>22839650
Learning the basics of a language is easy. It’s being consistent that’s hard

I find I get stuck in the learning curve. Each language has their own problems. Been learning Chinese lately, and it’s just a matter of learning vocabulary at this point, but it’s so tedious to translate every damn character I don’t know when reading a book for practice.

Spanish is relatively easy given they use the same alphabet and share similar vocabulary. The most difficult grammar you’ll need to learn are verb conjugations, and they get incredibly intuitive after a while. (I say this as a native speaker, so I could just be bias).

My recommendation is just find a piece of media you like in the language. If I wanted to learn Japanese, it’d be dead simple to learn with all the native Japanese material (Shounen manga even tell you how each kanji is pronounced when reading it in the original Japanese). Unfortunately I haven’t found Chinese music I like. Pretty much just been reading online web comics or books.

>>22839617 (OP)
check out the michel thomas course, it's a good introduction atleast
better to learn from someone in person
good luckOP

>>22839617 (OP)
erm... niggers (mexicans) don't speak spanish... they speak mexican

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>>22840504
good advice, ty
>>22840504
>Been learning Chinese lately, and it’s just a matter of learning vocabulary at this point, but it’s so tedious to translate every damn character I don’t know when reading a book for practice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uraPXeLfWcM
this whole video might be a waste of your time, but he mentions there's a system for converting the visual characteristics of a chinese character to a typed format
so even if he doesn't know the pronunciation/meaning of a character, he sees it & knows how to type it, which makes it very fast to translate
you might find another method though, idk

>>22840529
So basically Spanish lol

>>22840431
I doubt they are just going to start learning English lol

>>22839617 (OP)
Learn the comprehensive grammar from the masters as a power move against those who proudly speak like street rats.

>>22840435
no.