I grew up speaking mexican spanish in my home. Spanish was mandatory starting in middle school. I thought "oh this will be easy" but when I got to class I was really confused. Senora Anderson used words such as"vosotros, coche(and other vocab.) etc" that I've never heard of. When my papi corrected my homework I half of it wrong.

I understand that she uses some words from spain and others from latin America. She also tells me that I'm being rude and disrespectful because I'm not using formal spanish when talking to an adult. But this was my godparent and we are close thus not using formal language. I get confused especially when she randomly decides to use spanish over mexican vocabulary.

Do other Mexicans who take spanish have this issue or is it just me? I'm really upset with my grade and how the teacher is always telling me I'm wrong when I'm trying my best.
I found out before the first week ended it wouldn't be easy. I started trying as hard as I did in other classes. We don't just speak slang and use poor grammar at home. There is times where I need to speak proper spanish. That is a common misconception. Not all mexicans are lazy and in ELL.

I'm not trying to complain. I'm asking for advice at getting a better grade in this class. After one failed assignment I learned not to ask my dad for help.

recommendation for Ivy League universities. Of course I have the extracurricular activities, and academics to back me up, but out of the people mentioned, which looks best ?

In Spanish class we have to write a 5 paragraph essay on the food and eating customs of a spanish speaking country. I chose Mexico but you dont have to do that. It needs to have an introduction and conclusion, and 3 body paragraphs that include special foods, eating customs, and when breakfast, lunch and dinner are served, and whats eaten for each. I'm in the 8th grade so it doesnt need to be too like smart sounding, but it should be good. THANKS!

Sorry if I phrased that a little strangely. I want to learn how to speak Spanish but the only places I can find that teach Spanish only teach the type that they speak in Spain but it would be more convenient for me to speak the Spanish that Mexicans speak because a lot of immigrants from there have recently moved to my neighborhood. If I learn European Spanish will I be able to talk to the Mexicans in Spanish and understand each other?

my friend asked me and i said mexican. they all laughed and wouldnt tell me the REAL answer (if any). so do they speak mexican? or is it some other language?

if im writing an essay on mexican stereotypes how would i write my first paragraph with a thesis statement? it needs to be at least five sentences long.

they teach french, spanish, german, etc. but they dont teach us to speak mexican , canadian, or the bahama language or australian?

Not asking hot so speak Spanish fluently.
I'm asking how to speak Spanish like a Mexican person would.
For example you're crazy. "Tu esta loca" or "esta loca"
But a true Mexican would say "Ta loca"

I hope you understand what I'm trying to get at, apologies for offending anybody.

What other general Spanish phrases are there and how would a true Mexican say it?

I dont get it!
People always say that Spaniards are White, yet, they speak the Mexican Language!
Why is that?

Hi

I am looking for new words in english 'cause I am Mexican And I have been studying and sometimes I feel sad because my English vocabulary isn`t Big. Can you help me please and
I `ll give you 10 points.

This words:

Thank you for help and I inmediately give you the 10 points.

What does it mean in Spanish?

I need help in my TX History homework..
My homework is based on TX History vocabulary..
& directions are like this..
*Read the 4 words and decide how the words are all connected; then write an explanation of the connection...

#1: the four words are: Rebel, Insurgent, Secede, & Civil war
#2: the four words are: Manifest destiny, Annex, Mexican Cession, & Frontier.
#3: the four words are: Envoy, Treaty, Provoke, & Strained.
#4: the four words are: Slaves, Plantation, Manufacture, & Cotton.

*THANKS!
You need to use the 4 words & see how they connect and write it in complete sentences(:

why can't i and other Americans speak out aginst the rising problem of illegals invading this country, If we do were branded racist.. Well i have a few friends who are mexican who came here Legally and they speak out even louder then i do about illegals! why arnt they branded racist?

its for my spanish class and i really need help on this. please and thanks you(:

I am a Mexican, trying to learn Japanese. I have been studying for the past 5 or 6 months now. I know and understand a lot. I understand the basic gist of the video, but I still have trouble forming my sentences. I find the Japanese pronounciation very easy, but I am wondering if spanish speaking people have a noticeable accent when speaking Japanese. (Japanese people have a bit of an accent when speaking spanish btw, especially that they mix the l's and r's and stress some words incorrectly.)

I cant help but stress my words incorrectly sometimes like when i speak spanish. i also roll my r's to much. i didnt know quite how to phrase this question, but just what would i sound like with a light spanish accent? is it exotic, or difficult to understand? what connotations come with it, if that makes sense. what would you think if you heard me speak japanese?

This is a Mexican speaking Japanese, doing a speech presentation in a class in Japan. (He is a bit more fluent than me though)

If a Japanese language speaker were to hear him, what part would they think he is from? Osaka, Tokyo, Okinawa, Kyoto?

Today, a large pickup truck pulls up in my backyard and five Mexicans jump out of the truck with machetes and tank sprayers. I go outside and ask, “What’s up”. They just look at me, and one of them says something in Spanish.

Well there’s a Wisteria vine on my power pole, which I had planted a few years ago and an Elm tree nearby. This guy starts to whack on the vine with a machete, and another heads for my Elm tree and I yell at them. Then a sixth guy comes out of the drivers seat, says something and the whacking stops.

The driver walks over to me and he could barely speak any English. But he said he was working for the power company and he’s supposed to cut everything you know?

I said “ No, I don’t know, where’s your papers?” He says he doesn’t know. So’ I told him to get the hell off my property.

Later on, different truck pulls up and at least this Mexican can speak some decent English. He say’s, their supposed to trim the trees and brush along the power line. There are no markings on any of these vehicles and he doesn’t have any work orders either.

So, I tell him to shove off, he says I got to let him do it. I tell him call the cops, as he doesn’t have any work orders. Well, he left and it’s been 4 hours, no cops and no paper work.

Would you have done the same thing?
To those emailing me that I’m a racist. My current wife is part Algonquin Indian, the first wife was one quarter black (she died), and my son in law is Mexican. I have a foster brother that came from South Korea and my various in-laws are Mexican, African, and Iranian. So, you don’t know me, please, don’t make jackass assumptions, that I’m racist.

These guys had no ID’s and they were hacking plants that didn’t require trimming.

Is a letter V in Spanish always pronounced as a "bee" sound, or is it pronounced as a "vee" in certain cases? I am trying to improve my Spanish talking with a friend at work in Spanish (he is also good at speakin English and I help him get better with English like he helps me with Spanish) and he cannot tell the difference between a b and a v sound. He is aware that they are 2 different letters but he calls them both "b". He is Mexican and he says there is never a vee sound in Spanish but I have heard otherwise from people that have learned "Spain Spanish"

I'm writing a script and i need the most boring and bland mexican surnames.
thanks.

I had noticed Mexicans in Texas are shy to speak Spanish and Mexicans in California are proud to speak Spanish.

I heard schools in Texas forbid students to speak Spanish!
Why!!????

Please help my mom needs a job

I am asking because I am writing a short story and in one part of it, this Mexican mother is soothing her child and is being sweet to him and speaking to him in Spanish.

Please, MATURE answers preferred that happen to deal with the question! Thank you!

They really don't, and it doesn't help that America has mcdonlad billboards in Spanish now.

•Lawn Mowing
•Leaf Blowing
•Weed Eating
•Tree Trimming

•Grama que Corta
•Hoja que Sopla
•Hierba que Come
•Arbol que Recorta

Thank you in advance

I am Half mexican, half white. I dont speak spanish, I am white, but I have hispanic eyes(deep brown and long, thick eyelashes). I have always been really attracted mexican guys., are mexican guys interested in woman like me?
I'm not like white-trash white...I love the mexican culture and I do know some spanish. I just don't speak spanish fluently, but that probably doesn't make a difference.
Thanks ; P

"Atole recipe, common beverage native to Mexican regions that is served hot or at room temperature."

Atole is something my mom always makes, its like a pourage or something. anyway. She wanted to teach me how to do it and i said, okay So we started doing it and when it was all ready we began to boil the milk...And i mixed and mixed for like 45 minutes. atole only takes 10 minutes to mix.... and as you know Atole is saposed to turn thick while you mix it in the boiling pot. but the one i was making was thinner than water. so my mom got P.O'd and said "oh my gawsh! get away! go over to the living room!" and i said
"why? what did i do?!?!"
she said:
"your staring at it! if you stare at it while you mix it in too hard it will not get thick"
and so now im here puzzled. i have no idea what my mom was talking about but im pretty sure it was some kind of superstition.

I heard Obama is a Muslim and that means he is not from America? If he is a Muslim what country is he from and can he still be the president of america. I heard in church that he might be a terrorist from Iraq where we are having a war for christ our sawvior and redeemer. Is Obama like pontios pilot? Can Christians get reparations because of all the wellfare checks we are giving to muslims and they come from mexico and have babies and make regular people speak mexican american?

Guess what, we are here for opportunity. My people will learn eventually. My parents learned in time when they came to the U.S and they are now succesfull.

There are other spanish speaking Latinos to worry about. Also, check out the Spaniards. They're white and they speak Spanish. In fact, because of their conquests years ago in Latin America, Mexicans speak spanish because their ancestors were forced to learn by the Spaniards. The Spaniards were the first Spanish speakers just like the British were the first English speakers.

By the way, I'm not racist. In fact, I hope to visit Spain someday as well as Japan.

Also, not all Mexicans are brown. I'm white skinned. A lot of people have thought that I'm not Mexican until I start talking like one.

By the way, I learned in James Clavell's Shogun that language is the key to survival in any country.

VIVA LA RAZA!
By the way, I was born an American citizen thus making me Mexican-American. I'm not an immigrant. My parents have been American citizens for 4 or 5 years now. I helped them study for their exams.

Guess what, we are here for opportunity. My people will learn eventually. My parents learned in time when they came to the U.S and they are now succesfull.

There are other spanish speaking Latinos to worry about. Also, check out the Spaniards. They're white and they speak Spanish. In fact, because of their conquests years ago in Latin America, Mexicans speak spanish because their ancestors were forced to learn by the Spaniards. The Spaniards were the first Spanish speakers just like the British are the first English speakers.

By the way, I'm not racist. In fact, I hope to visit Spain someday as well as Japan.

Also, not all Mexicans are brown. I'm white skinned. A lot of people have thought that I'm not Mexican until I start talking like one.

By the way, I learned in James Clavell's Shogun that language is the key to survival in any country.

VIVA LA RAZA!

its the program where mexican farm workers were cheated out of money long ago.

Like can you tell me what each paragraph should say? it has to be 3 pages long and 4-7 paragraphs! thanks

My friend was born in Germany but moved to Mexico when she was young, and speaks both German, Mexican, and English. Her family moved to Canada when she was finished school. I was talking to her recently and she did not know who Hitler was, and had never heard of the Holocaust. I am wondering if this is because she went to school in Mexico, and the school systems are poor and she only finished up to Junior High, or if this has something to do with the fact that she is strictly Christian/Mennonite.

Teddy Roosevelt defeated the evil empire of Nicuragua and some mexicans. he also killed a mexican with his bare hands. was he not a better president than Reagan? Reagan never killed a mexican with his bare hands. Reagan cheated When he tried to stop the awesome power of the Nicuraguan empire that, in addition to being 'ten days marching distance from Texas', was also evil. Compared to T. Roosevelt Reagan was a complete douchebag.

Mexicans and other latinos who speak Spanish never say "Americans speak American"
they say Americans speak English

however, I've heard a lot of Americans saying "He/she speaks Mexican"

should I blame McDonald's or Coca-Cola??

I don't want to come across rascist or mean, I am just really curious about this and can't ask the person directly because I don't want to offend her. I live in L.A. and work with with this 25 year old Mexican female who has lived in the U.S. since she was 2. Her vocabulary and English is very poor considering she lived here since the age most people start to speak. For instance, she may refer to fish (plural) as "fishes" - stuff like that. I realize that her parents must not have spoken English, which slowed the process, but she has lived here 23 out of the 25 years of her life. Any ideas?

I wanted to know the address to write S.P.M (south park mexican) (Carlos Coy) owner of Dope House records in jail?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100520/pl_afp/mexicousdiplomacyimmigration

Why did Obama Invite this guy to come and speak out against the wishes of the American people?

is it because he cant find anyone who wants to fall on this sword?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/127598/Americans-Favor-Oppose-Arizona-Immigration-Law.aspx

@Jared
if you put a little effort you could try backing up your claims