What are you thinking?

Ya look good sis.

(*hug*)

And glad you joined the party of yourself as an avatar

 

What type of Spanish do you speak/did speak? It's hard to maintain an accent without being able to speak it regularly.

The accent you start with is usually the one you keep, though; despite being in a mostly Latin-Spanish speaking class, I still have a strong Peninsular accent.

 

Thanks Sis. and thank you Aussie92.

 

I'll have to give you a shout out tomorrow probably

 

There's a quote someone said about people being shadows.

But the name of the person who said it escapes me, probably because her quote is true and she is another long-dead shadow to me. Who said this? It doesn't matter. But this shadow would love to remember what it once knew.

 

The music I've been listening to as I finish up my revisions on the Giant Paper of Doom is officially the weirdest collection ever...Rent and Wicked soundtracks, bad early 90s hip-hop, modern alt/indie rock, and of course my usual 90s rock. Youtube has to be going "wtf is up with this dude?"

 

It's hard not to default to the standard Latin American dialect when in the U.S. Especially, California. The accent always seems to be the first to go. At the moment, I can get by as long as I am consciously mindful of my tongue and mouth movements. It is probably just my tongue being lazy. I've been going through my old Spanish playlist all day and my tongue got tired of my singing before my throat did, so I'm sure I'll just need some time to get back into shape. :lol:

 

Orange and white color blindness is not a real thing.

 

I need to stop falling asleep in my computer chair.

 

Yes, most US Spanish speakers will have a Latin American dialect. I speak Latin American/ neutral (my Mexican-born Spanish teacher said I could have been a newscaster), but do sometimes pronounce words with a more "Euro-Spanish"/Peninsular accent. The biggest culprits are the "LL," [e.g. I'll sometimes pronounce words like "llover" as (jo- instead of yo-)] and some words will sometimes come out with the -th sound. Can't really explain why.

 

£109 to get decent seats at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! I don't think so.

 

Did you write something there????

Edit: It is sooo late.... 5:20 a.m. :3

 

Won't be here for the next few days.

Will I miss EC? I guess I'll find out.

 

Argh, I've got that stupid song in my head thanks to that commercial:

Millions of peaches, peaches for me,

Millions of peaches, peaches for free

:dry:

My gut tells me yes, very much. (*hug*)

 

I'm gonna see how this day goes with no sleep!

 

Something tells me that that's not a good idea.

 

What makes you say that?
Yeahhh probably not. :3

 

I'm just wondering why everyone in the US has to study Spanish. I mean sure, it's the language of one of the two bordering countries, but from what I've heard it's fairly difficult, and having to study a difficult seocnd language as a kid can easily kill the willingness to learn more.

I'm happy that English was my second language. I could easily discover that languages are my thing. And now German is my third, and if I get some more free time in the future to work on it more, Russian will be my fourth. I don't think I ever want to stop with it.

 

Because a third (I think) of the US speaks it as a first language.

 

Spanish is not only an external language to the US. It's one of its internal languages and integral to its society, whether US anglophones like it or not. If anything, I think it's time to recognise Spanish as a joint official language of the US.

Spanish is a very easy and pleasant language, probably the best language for a native English speaker to pick up as their second, and has more practical applications for the average US anglophone than any other language. Its difficulty is nothing compared to French, German, Hindi, or Mandarin.

English is my first, and I found Spanish wonderful as a stepping-stone to learning French (my third language), and then that onto German (my fourth language). I think learning Spanish first was a wonderful decision (though it wasn't really chosen by me, given I was eleven when I was enrolled and 12 when I began).