just wondering :3

4/2/2013 1:53:37 AM

you could post on a whole new world of message boards.

4/2/2013 1:55:21 AM

^holy shit

this had never occurred to me :3

4/2/2013 1:56:44 AM

bien, no todas las personas pensaran tu eres estupido

4/2/2013 1:57:49 AM

I don't know what you're saying, but I'm pretty sure whatever it is, it's ruining the thread :3

4/2/2013 2:08:00 AM

Meet a variety of new women you otherwise couldn't talk to.

4/2/2013 3:01:03 AM

If you ever found yourself in Miami, Florida or any other Spanish speaking country you could converse with the locals.

4/2/2013 3:04:39 AM

you could possibly join in any number of pick up soccer games on Sundays

4/2/2013 3:19:01 AM

http://livemocha.com/pages/languages/spanish/

4/2/2013 6:56:59 AM

Learning a new language helps you express yourself in your native tongue better, and (in my case) it helps you organize your thoughts.

4/2/2013 7:06:45 AM

you can stand before Congress and pretend you dont know how to speak english

4/2/2013 8:09:17 AM

I wish I had take. Spanish in high school and college instead of French. I would be much more functional today in navigating the mean streets of 'Murica

[Edited on April 2, 2013 at 8:29 AM. Reason : uuu]

4/2/2013 8:29:09 AM

You can make sure the landscapers know how you want the yard taken care of.

4/2/2013 8:30:09 AM

you can understand posts like this better (paging Fermat): http://www.argentinawarez.com/emuladores-y-roms-gratis/1507521-gba-rom-collection-extras.html

4/2/2013 8:42:10 AM

You could make fun of gringos with the rest of the kitchen staff

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

4/2/2013 9:08:44 AM

espanol no es bueno senorita. muy tambien une tandos, si?

4/2/2013 9:29:13 AM

You'll know when they're talking shit and making fun of you.

4/2/2013 9:50:45 AM

You could put more than 1 line on your resume.

4/2/2013 9:58:32 AM

You would increase your chances of getting jobs that say, "biligual a plus" in the ad.

4/3/2013 8:54:38 PM

Fluency or proficiency in another language is a huge plus in any job. I'm about to start Rosetta Stone spanish and possibly do french later. Spanish proficiency would also be extremely helpful if you plan to move anywhere like Texas, California, Florida, etc.

4/3/2013 8:57:09 PM

I thought Spanish was REALLY easy. I took it each year from grades 6-12, plus two more courses at NCSU.. I haven't taken a spanish class or picked up a book since Fall 1997 and I'm still a good conversational speaker (I can read it tons easier than I understand it spoken, I don't use it a lot these days).

Fast forward to this year. In my free time, I've been studying the beginning levels of French and Russian (I wanted one of them to have a different character set). I'm having a hard time with both. They're not impossible, it's just really slow going... not like Spanish was.

The thing is, Spanish can't be that much easier. I know lots of people who took French in HS and picked it right up. That's why I'm thinking that it's just much easier to learn new languages as a kid.... and really hard when you're turning into a geezer

Anyways, as for the benefits:

- The Hispanic population is growing like crazy, and it's a lot easier to do business with or go on a date with with someone you can communicate with. From 2000 to 2011, the number of native Hispanics increased by 57.2%, and foreign born Hispanics went up by 32.9%. That equals out to 51,927,158 people that you could talk to!!1

- Lots of times, I'm able to figure out what some other foreign words mean because they sound a lot like their spanish counterpart.

- If you actually learn it well enough, it makes you more valuable to lots of employers.

- It doesn't happen as much as I hoped, but sometimes you can hear people spanish speaking about you or others in the room/area... and it REALLY fucks with them if you butt into the conversation to stick up for yourself, or talk about whoever they are talking about

if I think of more, I will post them. Back to my Russian alphabet lesson. I chose russian for my other character set language cause it looks so mean. Well, Arabic actually looks the toughest, but sword language fucks with my head



[Edited on April 3, 2013 at 10:46 PM. Reason : allah akbar]

4/3/2013 10:37:54 PM

I am too lazy to learn Spanish

4/3/2013 10:40:07 PM

UNO would make since

4/3/2013 10:40:40 PM

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"would make since"

[Edited on April 3, 2013 at 10:41 PM. Reason : .]

4/3/2013 10:41:38 PM

you could get a better job

4/3/2013 10:42:22 PM

you could say some pretty cool things while you are having sex...wait, no you couldnt

4/3/2013 10:43:41 PM

Quote :

"Learning a new language helps you express yourself in your native tongue better"

Actually, people that know more than one language have a much higher incidence of "words on the tip of the tongue" and getting tongue-tied.



Personally, I think that one of the greatest benefits of being able to communicate in another language is the personal growth you experience from a) gaining humility by struggling to communicate and realizing how hard many immigrants have worked to come start a new life in amurrica and b) gaining empathy by realizing that people are mostly the same everywhere, despite outward appearances. there's not that many words that exist in spanish and not in english and vice versa, which tells you that people of different cultures and regions still fundamentally have the same thoughts.

[Edited on April 3, 2013 at 10:46 PM. Reason : ]

4/3/2013 10:45:38 PM

Sense

4/3/2013 10:46:22 PM

gotta learn that sword language so ppl will ph33r u

4/3/2013 10:47:03 PM

Quote :

"you could get a better job"

shots fired

4/3/2013 10:48:39 PM