Comments on: Confidence in Understanding Spanish Vs. Who’s Speaking it

By: Dude, I So Hate my pants

Dude, I So Hate my pants — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:27:00 +0000

Try taking your pants off with a boner.

By: Nik

Nik — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:46:53 +0000

…acabo de *cagar…

By: ca42

ca42 — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:00:12 +0000

Uh, Spanish teacher here… studied 4 years in high school, majored in it in college. Worked with immigrant workers in a government office for awhile, back to teaching high school Spanish. STILL CAN’T understand alot of Spanish tv. Movies are easier, but not all. I was good with Pan’s Labyrinth. I’ve talked to natives from many Hispanic countries. Some are easier than others when they get talking fast. I still find myself saying ‘¡más despacio, por favor!’

By: meh!

meh! — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:25:02 +0000

lol so true…so true =3

By: Phat

Phat — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:57:27 +0000

One of the first tv shows I saw in Spain was called Pasapalabra. Nothing before or since has done more to shatter my confidence that I will ever be a competent Spanish speaker. I legitimately did not know people could physically phonate that phast.

By: John Curd

John Curd — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:00:04 +0000

just because you’re not the first…

By: metaltothedeath

metaltothedeath — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:05:41 +0000

Machine code

By: right

right — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:31:04 +0000

Spanish isn’t so difficult. Try that with Japanese.

By: Dark-yang

Dark-yang — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:38:48 +0000

A veces me veo leyendo la pasta de Colgate del lado portuges jaja
Pero al escucharlos ya no se les entiende mucho D:

By: Dark-yang

Dark-yang — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:36:36 +0000

Haha si, su acento es… Wo? xD

By: Saintwolf

Saintwolf — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:47:20 +0000

I think your Swedish friend was right. The English you learn in Europe, at least in Spain, as a second language it’s british.

By: nerdly_dood

nerdly_dood — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:02:57 +0000

I took five years of spanish through middle and high school, and THIS is EXACTLY why i gave up for my senior year and went for Latin.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:49:12 +0000

Donde esta la biblioteca, Pedro?

By: the cat

the cat — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:03:07 +0000

True of Japanese as well! :p

By: thestashattacked

thestashattacked — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:30:15 +0000

Oh. Didn’t know that. I had a Swedish friend who said that all Europeans learned British English, but I guess that’s not always true.

Well, thanks for informing me!

By: meep

meep — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:03:12 +0000

actually that’s wrong, most europeans learn american english as tv show’s, films and most books are printed in american english for the european market. Quite often i get annoyed when french people insist i’m spelling words wrong because i put a U in colour and spell centre with the r before e.

People often learn what they need to and not what’s appropriate in order to fit in. I’d rather people from europe learn british english but when dealing with us they make theirselves understood to us but understand the american things they experience more often.

By: Juanpa

Juanpa — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:20:54 +0000

leer en portugues se entiende, pero cuando se les olle hablar ya no, por lo menos a los brasileños no les entiendo

By: thestashattacked

thestashattacked — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:46:04 +0000

Wow, prejudice much? Considering the fact that more people speak Spanish in that part of the world, ever consider that maybe they have the majority and we should learn their dialect?

Besides, you learn a language based on the closest country that speaks that language. I would assume, since you say you’re from Spain, that you learned the British version of English. I would be extremely stupid to say that you didn’t learn “real” English.

Grow up and get a life.

By: Jaugoikola

Jaugoikola — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:10:29 +0000

Try taking Basque

By: jaun

jaun — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:00:28 +0000

jajajaa muy cierto, de hecho en ocaciones cuando busco algo en internet, y lo encuentro, empiezo a leer, y despues me doy cuenta que esta en portugues… jaja
son muy parecidos

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:47:40 +0000

LOOOL I’m Spanish and sometimes it’s really hard for us to understand something coz most of time they’re shouting XD

By: Pants_Mcgee

Pants_Mcgee — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:24:40 +0000

Lol, Spanish.

Try taking Mandarin.

By: silva

silva — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:17:24 +0000

well i’m brazilian and have no trouble with spanish in any level

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_intelligibility

portuguese, spanish and galician share a strong mutual inteligibility

if you really learn any of these languages you’ll be able to communicate with many people that can’t even read english

By: Spanish Guy

Spanish Guy — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:42:13 +0000

Well… exactly the same happens to me with english.

By: Dorian

Dorian — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:18:26 +0000

Es algo difícil, a mi me paso lo mismo cuando aprendí inglés. Intenten ver la tele Mexicana, ni siquiera yo puedo entender algo.

By: Baro

Baro — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:16:53 +0000

problem is, you won’t

By: rafa

rafa — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:13:39 +0000

Well, I think the best way to learn a foreign language is on TV, if you can understand that, then you can understand enything .

By: Tourist on this planet

Tourist on this planet — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:57:51 +0000

This is true in every language I’ve tried to learn. Generally, TV is the worst way to learn anything, except maybe numbers, or things on “Sesame Street”.

By: Tauron32

Tauron32 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:36:34 +0000

I’m Spanish, from Spain. And I can change in the picture every “Spanish” into “English” and still being the same graph.

BTW, Spanish TV is incomprehensible even to us.

By: author

author — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:30:28 +0000

This applies to every foreign language.

By: ConnectToReality

ConnectToReality — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:42:53 +0000

Me acabo de enmierdar mis pantalones porque la puerta del baño tenie llave.

By: RP

RP — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:11:26 +0000

AMAZING! Lets all throw a parade your sake of mindless superiority.

By: Agnus

Agnus — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:10:06 +0000

Por lo menos no es chino

By: Juanpa

Juanpa — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:48:26 +0000

this happens to me, but with english
and i don’t understand people from Spain, just from latinoamerica

By: morri

morri — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:58:34 +0000

I’m spanish and I understand you. The spanish tv it’s impossible to understand even if you are spanish. Usually they are shouting all the time.

By: meetooo

meetooo — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:55:11 +0000

Mi Tio esata enfermo, pero el camino esta verde.

By: Mr. E

Mr. E — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:21:09 +0000

JAJA!
FRIÉGUENSE!
>:3

By: roflcopter

roflcopter — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:18:04 +0000

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLL!!!

By: kyle

kyle — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:46:12 +0000

and nobody cares

By: lol

lol — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:26:13 +0000

FIRST!!!!!