i hate spanish class!!

 

Es una idioma guapa!

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i barely know any

i have to pass it to go to a college, but i skip it like everyday

Well, it's like anything, it's hard to learn, but worthwhile. I lived for 2 years in Spain, and learning the language improved my life there. I now have Spanish-speaking friends on this site, which is nice; I can practice my Spanish, and they can practice their English.

I hope you can pass the class & go to college, as I see from your profile that your a very good wrestler. I know how good American colleges are for promising sportsmen.

Good luck (Buena suerte!)

La lengua me gusta!

J'aime la langue.

Learning another language also strengthens your own.

Don't be such a little american trash.

Poptart wrote: Learning another language also strengthens your own.

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I couldn't agree more. My old Latin teacher (although he preferred the term "Classics Master") taught me more about English than any English teacher. I didn't want to learn any Latin at the time, but I'm glad I did.

Knowing more than one language has opened my eyes to people, places, music, movies, knowledge, and foods I wouldn't have otherwise enjoyed. I doubt it will make you a better wrestler but it's not so bad with the right teacher.

According to the reading I have done on English language history and some small Latin study, English is 60% latin. For the last ten years, I've studied French, and that has helped to improved my English tremendously. Then, I met some Brits and they told me I don't speak English at all.   Not in that order, mind you.

But English is a germanic language, no? Being 60% latin does sound a bit strange to me?

I love and hate spanish. I really want to learn it, and it is a beautiful language. However, I find it very frustrating to try to hold a conversation. I have spent two years of classes trying to learn it, and I know a decent amount. But when I have to use it exclusively, I still end up speaking in a very elementary manner and stutter constantly. I should just move to Spain like Chessbot.

Etienne wrote: Don't be such a little American trash.

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 Jeez Etienne. You are really brutal sometimes.

Etienne wrote: Don't be such a little american trash.

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suck my balls

Yes, English is a germanic language, but it has a lot of latin in it too. The Romans left England around 300 ad. In came the anglo-saxons. When the Normans invaded in 1066, anglo-saxon mixed with french (latin language) becoming anglo-norman and began to change towards what we recognize today. Later, when new words needed to be created/ added to the language, latin was used. However, the latin words were anglicized (anglicised). In a nutshell. Just from learning a handful of latin totally changed the way I view English.

Poptart wrote:

Yes, English is a germanic language, but it has a lot of latin in it too. The Romans left England around 300 ad. In came the anglo-saxons. When the Normans invaded in 1066, anglo-saxon mixed with french (latin language) becoming anglo-norman and began to change towards what we recognize today. Later, when new words needed to be created/ added to the language, latin was used. However, the latin words were anglicized (anglicised). In a nutshell.

Just from learning a handful of latin totally changed the way I view English.

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 Yes I know english does have some latin, and both english and french influenced each other greatly, and not only from invasion, but a lot too through litterature and social exchanges between english and french, but it's the proportion of 60% that I find find odd.

I think it is probably impossible to accurately "rank" the many sources of words the English language has as compared to the whole language.

I've studied French, Latin, and Spanish and can see links between the languages. The German language bewilders me.

 

England pulled in new vocabulary from her colonies too. From American, India, Australia, Canada.

I see how Anglo-Saxon and German look a like. But I can't see similarities between German and modern English.

 

Thank goodness we never had to learn to declinate nouns as in Latin and German.

 

 

I'm no english philologist, nor do I know german, so I can't tell much, but I can see some similarities between spoken German and  spoken modern English.

I don't have enough experience with German to speak more on it. Now, when I'm in Alsace, France and I hear Alsatian, every now and then my English ear picks up a phrase or two.