Can you speak Spanish?

United States
October 22, 2007 4:14pm CST
If so how or where did you learn? Is it your native language or is something else? I do know how to speak Spanish. I learned some in high school. But mostly for hearing it being spoken. I have been dating Spanish men as long as I can remember. And I picked up a lot of it from them. And now I'm married to a Puerto Rican so I learned a lot from him also. English is my native language but I love knowing how to speak Spanish.
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@ebtenorio (765)
• Philippines
15 Nov 07
I could speak Spanish. Though unlike some, I have studied it way back high school.. We had foreign language in high school and Spanish was one of the languages to be studied there, aside from French, Japanese and German.
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• United States
15 Nov 07
So you speak many languages?
• United States
15 Nov 07
OH cool
• Philippines
15 Nov 07
I do... with common words, that is. :D I am into Asian languages now... :D
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@roniroxas (10559)
• Philippines
22 Oct 07
spanish is one of the subject i have during college, although i can no longer remember a lot from it because i dont have anyone to speak it with. it is easy to learn a language if you have someone to talk to.
@roniroxas (10559)
• Philippines
31 Oct 07
thanks for the BR
• United States
22 Oct 07
Very true we speak Spanish together all the time.
@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
23 Oct 07
Around Texas you almost have to speak Spanish. Many jobs require bilingual applicants. I learned French when I was in high school. We were not offered a choice. We had to take two years of Latin before we could take French. Since I took those I can almost read a little Spanish since it is based on Latin as are all the Romance languages, Spanish, French, Italian. I can speak a few words in Spanish but not enough to carry a conversation.
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• United States
24 Oct 07
You sound very bilingual.
• Malaysia
23 Oct 07
I do want to speak spanish but I can't. But it was a great language to learn.
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• United States
24 Oct 07
It is very easy.
@chym1101 (169)
• China
23 Oct 07
hello, lifez2short! I cann't speak Spanish but I want to learn it very much! It is said that Spanish sounds best amony all the languages in the world. I have heard some from the TV and the movie, and it is really fair-sounding. It is best to immerse into the culture for learing a language, so how i want to stay in Spain for some time!! My mother tongue is Chinese. I read some words from a magagine saying that the dominant language is Latin in the first thousand years, English in the second thousand years and Chinese in the third thousand years! hehe~~ how i hope it is real!
• United States
23 Oct 07
Very interesting.
@cmtvinil (83)
• Brazil
23 Oct 07
Lifez2short!I do speak spanish too,not as my primary language,cause I`m from Brazil, where Portuguese is spoken! I speak spanish because is very comerecial and technical language world wide. But if you´re marriew to a Porto Rican why a better teacher than him? In South America,only Brazil dont speak spanish. I´fromm the South Brazil,and their limits or fronties are Agentina,Uruguay and Paraguay,so it´s very easy to us,gauchos,speak spanish as secondary language.We call them, Los Hermanos.the Brothers or Los Gringos,the gringos,just like the Mexicans call all americans,correct?But practise your spanish,daily, La Lengua de Miguel de Cervantes,the Author of Dom Quixote!Un gran saludo del amigo Walter Lock, de Brazil
• United States
25 Oct 07
LOL yep im a gringo.
@venshida (4836)
• United States
22 Oct 07
Good for you, I took Spanish in college, but I still only know a few words.
• United States
22 Oct 07
A few words is better then nothing.
@gwendovere (1279)
• United States
23 Oct 07
I speak some Spanish, but I can't carry on an in-depth conversation in it. I learned it in school but once I got to Spanish IV, I seemed to have some kind of learning block. It's hard for me to learn verb conjugations for some reason, so I have never been able to master the language. I have tried to teach my son a few Spanish words here & there, as I think it's very important to at least be bilingual, if not know more than 2 languages well.
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• United States
23 Oct 07
I love when people don't know I speak Spanish and they start to talk and i know exactly what they are saying.
@Feona1962 (7526)
• United States
22 Oct 07
I know how to count to twenty..A few words here or there but no way could carry on a conversation...I learned a little in high school..My grandsons have picked up words from Dora the Explorer and Diego....
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• United States
22 Oct 07
oh well thats better then nothing. and yeah my kids are picking words up from those cartoons also.
@zidlore (251)
• Philippines
25 Oct 07
I know alot of Spanish words, because the Spaniards stayed here in our country for around 300 years, that's why most of our native words are derived from Spanish. I can count from 1-20, our greetings are almost the same, the names of things are the same or quite the same.
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@claire03 (1443)
• United States
23 Oct 07
i know some few words in spanish but i can't speak the spanish language. i know how to count in spanish though. i like the Spanish language and i want to learn how to speak spanish but it maybe hard since i don't know when i can use it. English is the language we use. Spanish is a very good language. i like to learn how to speak french also :) God bless.
@viroop (155)
• China
23 Oct 07
iam an indian and i know a little spanish but i cant speak spanish just i can understand few words talking in spanish just it and i cannt speak spanish
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• United States
23 Oct 07
I can understand most spanish if it is spoken slowly.
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@latinvari (192)
• Turkey
23 Oct 07
hola como estas. just this is. i can t speak spanish but i want to learn spanish because hispanic girls r so pretty :) if you have alot langueges you can meet with a lot girls
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@carolbee (16230)
• United States
23 Oct 07
I can speak only a few words. A foreign language was a required subject when in high school. Spanish sounded easier than some of the other languages so that's the direction I went. I can understand a little bit when it's spoken slow but could never survive in Spain or anywhere it's the primary language of that particular country.
@k1tten (2318)
• United States
23 Oct 07
I suck at spanish. I can barely keep english straight so I don't think I'd be able to get spanish at all.
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
23 Oct 07
No but I hoe to learn one day. I;m sure my son will learn the language before I do though.
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
3 Jan 08
I can speak a little, read a little - not very proficient at it though, too many years out of practice. I began learning as a child when I lived in Panama Canal Zone... then in highschool I took 4 years and a trip to Spain. I think I would have been better off taking latin, though.
@azimsay (543)
• India
23 Oct 07
I can not speak in spanish how it is possible Iam INDIAN,but I like to lurn spanish,it wil take time but no problem.
@cherryee (53)
• China
23 Oct 07
I want to learn Spanish too. But I was told that the grammar of Spanish was more than a little complex. So I have not decided whether to go to night class to learn it.