There is a skit where Matt Foley (Chris Farley) the motivational speaker goes to Mexico and talks to a Mexican family, speaks Spanish, and as always is hilarious. The thing is that I can't find it on You Tube or Hulu (free stuff on Hulu). Does anyone know where I can find this? I actually want to show it in my Spanish class. B-)

I personally believe English should be the Universal Language for the United States...however, there's alot of accomodating for spanish-speakers!!~! I can NOT go to Mexico and demand they speak English ---what's up with this???

Spanish is Ine Language.
But it sounds different and some gramar change according to the region.
In Argentina people Speak Old fashion Spanish
In Cuba the Influende of African dialects is strog
In Mexico many worsds came from Nahuatl or Arab
In Spain, the accent and some grammar change, as well.
So.... I Think the Best Spanish is in México, Costa Rica, Colombia.

and the Worst Spainsh is in Texas ( Spanglish )

What about English?
See ya

I need to figure out how to write with a mexican accent. Im doing a paper on local color in mexico, and I need to write a folk story using the mexican accent in english. Can someone direct me to a website that teaches me how to do this or a helpful youtube video? Thanks!

I know it's very difficult for an immigrant to live in Mexico - they cannot get any welfare even after become a citizen, they must speak Spanish fluently, there is no bi-lingual education provided and only professionals (no labor workers) can apply for citizenship and they can't buy properties in good areas such as near the ocean. So if someone were found to live in Mexico without having qualified for all of the above and gotten a citizenship, what would the Mexican gov do to them?

This is Calvin. I know that the Mexican culture and Chilean culture are pretty similar. But my question is about what is the similarities between the people in Mexico and in Chile? People in both of these countries speak Spanist as primary language.

And what's the difference between these two countries? How are the cultures/traditional similar and differ from each other?

I would like either, but both is best, a written out list of steps each partner takes or an illustrated set of steps for dances like the Raspa and the Mexican hat dance but focusing on the less known dances of Mexico, like El Venado, La Zandunga, Los Matlachines, Jesusita en Chihuahua and La Bamba. Thanks.

what is the national language of mexico? is it spanish of diffrent from spanish. coz google lanaguage tool doesnt show mexican or any language word which related to mexico. ??

I went to a Mexican restaurant
It is owned by Mexicans, they serve Mexican food and the waiters even speak Spanish.
The restaurant atmosphere is also very similar to Mexico
However when I pay the Bill they refuse to accept Mexican currency.
Why did they do this?
Can they be sued? If so, under what law?

How ignorant can Americans get?

Spanish people are from Spain.

Ever heard of Spain? No, it is not next to Mexico

Spanish persons:

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Or do you think that Europe is a country?

America is a very ignorant place.
Not been to America?

Ha!

I was born here, you pricks. I have experienced American ignorance firsthand, but unlike most of you, I am multi-cultural.
White people make non-ignorant white people feel ashamed of being white because of how cultureless white Americans are and how weak you are and still manage to be ignorant about other places and have little education.

Look at britney spears..LOL..America is an ignorant place

i have to write a short paper about it, all i need to know is who did polk want to buy california from, mexico?

You get Mexicans who've been in the US for several generations, do they still speak Spanish? Many are in Mexico. People like Robert Rodriguez and Eva Longoria have roots in the US for ages, do they still speak Spanish??

Why do Mexicans not lose their language, while all the Germans, Irish, Italians etc cannot speak those languages in the US?

I want to know who you think provoked the mexican war america or mexico... and if you can give a reason why...I have to write an essay and i'm not even sure who I think provoked it...
and I'm not aloud to use my text book...

I'm in mexico and I know a little spanish... enough to talk to people... and when I talk to people my response is always to fast for me to understand.

i already know beginner mexican spanish, but i have been told that south american spanish is way harder to learn and understand. is this true? will i have a hard time if i go to argentina? if i learn spanish in argentina, will it be a piece of cake for me to talk in mexico?

I saw on tv they having a conversation, for sure they were speaking mexican because they have that peculiar accent so i thought they were two mexicans until i knew the other guy was argentinian.

But i can be mistaken because argentina is far away from mexico.

my english is not very good.. well i am mexican.. I am young.. I am a student for being an english teacher, many people here that my english is not very good.. I live in mexico, in a small town.. I need websites for free or advice for improving my engish.Thank you for you help

Essentially _ ia m a Photographer?artist who has travelled extensively througout various parts of mexico and realize that i want to do a photo project/ book where i travel across a picked selection of its cities and put together beautiful images and photography and interviews for a book on the people and country of mexico--i am wanting to know how i could possibly contact the embassy to get funding for sucha project and what is the best way to go about it. I feel in the end that my project could be used to help the mexican tourist industry as well as relations between america and mexico in gerneral- I am an american artist photographer/writer who speaks and writes in the spanish language . My travels there have taught me that it is one of the places in my life where beauty makes sense to me.

Hi.. I am mexican and some people told me that I have bad pronunciation.. I live in mexico.. I really want to improve my english.. besides of the english class..because it's hard to find good things..like good dictionaries or programs on shops for learning languages.. I want to learn more and to know tips special for those who learned english as second language.. or native speakers.. everybody is welcomed bye

Illegal activists from Mexico claim Americans are zenophobic. Would predominantly Mexican neighborhoods become anoyed if Iraqi immigrants migrated to their neighborhoods and wanted special cultural treatment.

I am Chicana, both my parents were born in Mexico and I was born in the United States. Do I mark "some other race" and write Mexican?
Do I just mark white?

pronunciation of those words because thats how iranians and iraqis pronounce them, why dont we give the same courtesy to mexicans and asians? do u think the japanese pronounce japan like we do? do u think mexicans pronounce mexico like we do?
why be so passionate and politically correct about the pronunciation of a couple countries if u arent gonna give the same courtesy to people of other countries?
hahahaha nuts, you really are nuts..your wishful insult made absolutely no sense...I see why you have a 3% best answer rate..at level 6...and no Qs...lots and lots of senseless answers..but never any curiousity...YOU are the idiot, darling

It doesn't matter where they are from, they (not including hispanic americans) always ask them if they are mexican or what part of Mexico they're from. Now, if they tell them first " I'm from-------" some of them will actually say: So, what part of Mexico is that at? Or Do you speak puerto rican, mexican, etc.?
Now remember, this also includes Americans stationed or living abroad in Europe. Some visit Spain are kinda shocked that spanish is spoken their. And still they ask hispanics there if they are Mexican.

in English? I've noticed that this group of foreigners are very actively disturbed when you speak Spanish to them? I speak Spanish better than most AMericans and have lived long periods of time in Latin countries. Why is this? I have seen them get down right angry about it?
Anti sucks: Yeah, I kinda got that impression myself. They think they have something over on us. Ha! Littld do they know. Just another point. I complained in a social group when a couple of our well bi lingual hispanics started chatting it up in front of the rest of us in Spanish. I tolde them in Spanish, we live in the USA, please speak English for the rest of the goup. They laughed and agreed. But someone else who was a Latin LaRaza type hit the ceiling because I had asked for this consideration from my friends. Turned into quite a hoopla. Thankfully the crazy Latin isn't around anymore. Maybe she went back to Mexico ..I can hope.
Tita: Latin friends are not the problem. It's those who one doesn't know. While I agree with you generally, I have found Latins (mostly Mexican) who do not know me, to be very hostile when I attempt Spanish with them, as if it is an insult. They have no problem speaking it to each other however. Seems kinda like they have this special ability they share and when a Gringo comes along and has it too, they don't like it. Almost feels like racism to me perhaps?

Okay, please do not be offended, (no racism intended) but I've noticed that Mexican Spanish speakers tend to talk really fast and I have a hard time understanding them, but I can understand other dialects just fine, (Cubans, Argentineans, Chileans, Spanish, etc.)

So my final two questions are why can't I understand Mexican Spanish as well as other dialects and are Spanish speakers from Mexico known to have the fastest Spanish speaking dialect?

I have been studying Spanish for a really long time in school and on my own, and I am basically "fluent" in that respect. The only thing that I still have some trouble with is slang. I used to live in Spain and I got all of that down, but now I pretty much live in Mexico and I don't know where or how to learn the new slang. Perhaps some advice, a list of slang, etc? Thanks.

i heard that americans will see a mexican doctor and pay them 20$ to have them write them a prescription for heavy drugs like oxycontin.

i also heard that in mexico it is legal to "self prescribe".

is all this true?

Mexican United States is the official name of Mexico
Spanish is the official language in Mexican United States.
Is Mexico the largest Spanish speaking & Catholic country in the world?

I always use the term mexican-american for myself because I can't just say mexican because I'm not from Mexico. I can't say just American because in everyones eyes that means Anglo. I am a 5th gen. American on my mothers side and on my fathers side we can trace back 8 gen. here in Cali, back to the Mexican-American war days. Everyday I get people talking to me in spanish and when I say I don't speak spanish they are all surprised and ask a bunch of questions like "why don't you speak spanish"? and other stupid questions. They act like they are so amazed! Some think I don't speak it because I don't like it. It's annoying sometimes-they are so ignorant. If I knew it I would speak it but I don't and if I wanted to right now I'm sure I could take classes and learn but it's not a main focus in my life right now. Some will say - You turned your back on your culture and crap but I'm proud to be chicano and know my history. Why is it only hispanics who make a big deal of his. Other races don't

I would like to watch some English-language films about Mexican culture that is recent is the last 4 years. Not documentaries or travel guides but actual movies about Mexico, Mexicans or Mexican-Americans. Thanks!

I was just thinking how wrong sometimes we americans are about ourselves, I just went down to Mexico on a business trip and i stayed with a Mexican family in a upper-class neighbourhood, and it was new to me to see that there are actually many white mexicans some of them even blonde but they are 100%mexican citizens some of them do not even speak english, on the other hand it is not rare to see in the US speacially in the southern states "mexican-looking people" and some of them are 5th generation mexicans and lost completely the language and they speak English and some of them know nothing of Spanish...I know that race and nationality have nothing to do with each other (specially in America) but still it made me think of stereotypes and how wrong we can be....any similar stories???

this is NOT how it's spelled but it sounds like this......wa matair way?? what does that mean??
Hey Lucy, Mexico is a country...Spain is a country... they have different dialects!!! Americans don't call a toilet a "loo" but people from england do... so shut the fuck up!

President Felipe Calderon, today blasted our deportations and said "Mexico does not end at its borders." And speaking to Mexicans in the US many of them here illegally he told them "Where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico."

That sounds pretty imperialistic to me. What would happen if we sent millions of Americans to another country and said that the US extends into your country?

I was born in Mexico but was raised in the USA. When I saw them acting this way it made me feel sad. If you have the apportunity to learn and it's going to benefit you in a positive way, would you not want to learn? I know that English is first and that's why I've studied hard to learn it. My theory: If they are heard speaking spanish, people will automatically think they are foreing, not American born. I'm proud to be Trilingual. I also took french in HS.

Latin America, Spain, and Mexico all have different spin offs of the Spanish language correct? So how would you say 'I miss you' in a Mexican dialect? Or is that phrase the same in all areas? If so please still write out the translation. Thanks!