Hi everyone I come from Spain. I live in Madrid. I'm telecomminications engineer. I hope I stay here long time and I meet a lot of people. Regards PD: I know, I have to improve my english
If you stick around and work at it, it'll certainly improve. This post was fine, though . Welcome, by the way .
English here (Spain) is obligatory in the schools. I think is the main difference. Is easy to take classes of spanish in your countries? If you want to learn (a little) spanish or practice, I don't have problems with it. It would be a pleasure.
Well, in britain some schools offer spanish as a GCSE - that is the qualification you take at age 16. However, you are only learning the language for 3-4yrs in most cases, and its not very in depth. for example, i can say i want a white shirt ("quiero una camisa blanco") but I can't say anything useful, like where is the nearest pub ( my guess would be "donde esta el casa publico mas cerca" but thats probably bollocks.) So basically, someone can study spanish, but it isnt very advanced
I ended up choosing a different language every year at school. So one french, one spanish, russian, chinese and german then I elected French after that. This means I have almost no recollection of any of those extra languages that I went through to get back to French - because I grew up speaking it. Absolutely pointless system where you can't choose to stick with just one language and actually get somewhere with it. So Iherre in England lots of people learn Spanish, just only a tiny bit, kinda useless in my experience.
Here is obligatory in the school, high school, university, etc because english is the choosed language for business, etc. For example Spanish now is growing quickly in EEUU. Other point is that english is easier than spanish to be learned. To the_steadster: "Quiero una camisa blanca" "dónde está la casa publica más cercana" This is the right expressions
hm.. all I can say is: donde esta maria? and mi gato esta loco probably didn't even spell it right ;D
