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Well most usa kids are learning spanish at school so you can try at least. From Klondike to Ushuaia
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Here in Sweden, most people study Spanish, they outnumber French and German by far, Italian isn't even possible to study in my school.
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Audience in Rotterdam seems to understand Spanish pretty well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQAzzbY5cE
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Honestly, Spanish is nothing in Europe.
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We all are nothing. God is everything.
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ĢI shit on God's head.ģ
That means you're a believer. A fanatic actually
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spanish is nothing in europe. the population of spain is rapidly, and i mean very rapidly, declining and viking is a lying prick.
<<Here in Sweden, most people study Spanish, they outnumber French and German by far, Italian isn't even possible to study in my school. >>
gtfo
i don't see any prestige in spanish culture and language as well. english, german, french, italian and even russian are considered more prestigious, cos they have contributed much to science, technology and mathematics.
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french and english are the only two global languages. they are the only two working languages of the UN and are more official in more organizations than spanish will ever be.
both are more prestigious than spanish, a language known around the world as the language of thugs, gangsters, illegal immigrants and drug dealers, which is often shown in movies and whatnot.
numbers don't mean much. those hispanics in latin america can keep reproducing like pests for all i care but that won't make spanish more prestigious. what has spanish contributed to maths, science and technology? even russian has done more than that.
as for tourism, france has beautiful islands in the caribbean, pacific and around madagascar, and france itself is a top tourist stop. the alps, the mediterannean, paris, etc, france has got it all. even in latin america i'd rather visit the US or brazil over any hispanic country.
spanish has those annoying inverted question and exclamation marks, and the tilda n (can't they just use "ni" for the sound?) that is considered part of the alphabet. plus the spanish spoken in spain (which has that gay lisp) is different to the spanish of latin america, with different pronunciation, vocabulary, sometimes grammar and accents. who knows? maybe spanish in the future will have significantly varied dialects that may be considered languages in their own right. and unlike latin which had prestige spanish would be forgotten.
as for illegal immigrants in US refusing to speak english, all schools there are taught in english, so their second or third generation descendants will speak fluent english. plus, the people who matter speak english there. the people who don't speak spanish.
sure french is hard to pronounce, but that's what makes it fun. it's a challenge. don't you people like at least a little challenge when learning other languages? or are you typical americans who are lazy and choose the easiest language? if you are, then spanish grammar is arguably harder than french? especially when you get past the basics and into the deep. The Spanish subject pronoun is usually dropped, thus it is essential to have all verb conjugations memorized in order to recognize (as the listener) and express (as the speaker) which subject is performing the action. The French subject pronoun is always stated, which means that verb conjugations - while still important, of course - are not as vital to comprehension: your own or your listener's. In addition, French has just two words for you (singular/familiar and plural/formal), while Spanish has four (singular familiar, plural familiar, singular formal, and plural formal), or even five - there's a different singular/familiar used in parts of Latin America with its own conjugations.
final note. french and english are like brothers. they both have 26 letters. in fact more than half of all english words are derived from french, so it would help both languages if you study french.
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<< Here in Sweden, most people study Spanish, they outnumber French and German by far, Italian isn't even possible to study in my school. >>
You're talking bullshit. Here in Sweden, the most studied foreign languages are English, German, and French in that order.
Viking, you can't make a fool out of me because you're an impostor pretending to be Swede but a Hispanic actually.
Here are the proofs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Sweden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eu_languages
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French language has a world population for this language of 425,622,855 while Spanish has 411,631,985 that is according to internet World Stats.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
This data is not an estimation but the exact figure based on the study. Clearly, this is more accurate than that of Ethnologue's.
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OFFICIAL DATA
FRENCH 200 MILLION FRANCOPHONIE
SPANISH 500 MILLION INSTITUTO CERVANTES
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dear Lak and Francesca,
I don't know where you had the information, but after Sapin, France's the biggest spanish speaker in Europe (more than Portugal). Spanish is a very successfull language in France. For many reasons, the biggest border in France with another country is Spain. Some people have a common history with Spain. It is easier to understand if you compare it with english. Catalans (and basques) are lands divided between France and Spain perfectly speak and understand spanish. If italian is a nice language, it is not so spoken outside of Italy except a part in Switzerland and a small part in the south of France.
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ACCURATE, UNBIASED, AND EXACT (NOT ESTIMATION) DATA WITH THOROUGH STUDY
FRENCH 425,622,855
SPANISH 411,631,985
BY INTERNET WORLD STATS
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