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@stux So sad. Alexa, play Despacito.
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Hay! I can read that (without translation)! 👏🏽
@stux Many US schools have Spanish as part of their curriculum, but it's not a required part - it's only an elective. Couple that with the... interesting... people that it's obvious are a major part of our country and it's no surprise that a lot of people don't know a word of Spanish.
Excuse me for my bad Spanish, we don't speak it here in the Netherlands
If we would, I would have learned it ofcourse!
I mean how can you not if half the country you live in speak a certain language 🤔
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@stux my primary school didn't offer languages, my parents dont speak another language, and I didn't know many people who spoke Spanish growing up. I had the same number of neighbors who spoke Spanish as I did who spoke Dutch (1). First time I was offered a Spanish class wash 9th grade, and the school's Spanish program was very bad.
I'm now working on self study, but still very hard when I don't have anyone to speak it with. I can read it decently though.
@stux no bad Spanish, pretty accurate! As a native speaker I would say
Cierra la puta boca, gringo de los cojones.
But I'm very passionate about badmouthing when it is about Americans being racists.
@stux was good enough to generate a meaningful English output through Firefox translate so no te preocupes amigo 😎
@stux Je zou toch denken met de tekst van het Wilhelmus "Een Prinse van Oranje ben ik, vrij, onverveerd, den Koning van Hispanje heb ik altijd geëerd." dat er meer zou worden ingezet om ook Spaans te leren op scholen ipv alleen Duits, Engels, en Frans...
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@RandamuMaki Indd!
Ik schaamde me dood laatst in Spanje.. Maar twee woordjes die ik ook geleerd heb
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@stux Ik heb vroeger eigenlijk alleen Spaans geleerd via Bassie & Adriaan op TV.
In Viva España snapte Bassie niet wat er nou gezegd werd, dus Adriaan probeert het hem even simpel uit te leggen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQqUAEhdjQc
En dan is er De Spaanse Les, onderdeel van een serie aan liedjes over andere talen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1OV9KojYDM
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@RandamuMaki Aaah helemaal vergeten ja! 😆 Dit keek ik vroeger ook en zeker dat ik me dit herriner
Echter op school is het helemaal afwezig
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@stux Vast ooit er een keertje uitbezuinigd... ;)
@stux It was actually part of the curriculum in my state that for an advanced high school diploma (intended for those going to college), you had to take 3 years of a foreign language or 2 years each of 2 languages
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I went to high school in California and they require one year of a "foreign language" or visual and performing arts to graduate from high school.
It's 2 years minimum and 3 years recommended of "Language Other Than English" (LOTE) if you want to go to university there.
This means a lot of people there already speak at least basic Spanish.
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@svavar @stux The foreign language requirements for a high school diploma vary per state if that's what you're asking.
My state just said "a foreign language", so in my county someone could take 3 years of French and still fulfill that requirement. Other counties could easily have other language classes but we just had Spanish and French