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.
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?
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"
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.
Here in California I have noticed that most Mexican Americans refer to other Mexicans as "Spanish". Why? Just speaking Spanish doesn't make one Spanish. Being from Spain makes one Spanish. I speak English, but I'm not from England so I'm not English. I almost get the feeling that Mexicans here in California regard the word Mexican as an insult. Why? Being from Mexico makes one Mexican just as surely as being from Italy makes one Italian.
what are the basics of analyzing facts to prove a thesis?
if i'm writing a research paper about mexico, and my thesis is that contact with spain yielded a negative out come. My reasons to prove this are that
1. spain enslaved millions of mexicans
2. spain entered war with mexico
3. spain broke up the peace between the tribes
4. spain brought disease to mexico, and the natives had no resistance to it
5. after counquering mexico, mexico was only allowed to rade with spain
6. mexicans were originally discriminated against, and could not improve their lives easily
(i just made these facts up, but they're true)
how could i analyze these facts? what are some things that i could try when i'm analyzing?
how would you analyze these facts?
how else could you connect them to the thesis?
are the basics just stating why, and how? how can you further analyze these things, giving deeper reasons then just why, and how.
So I've done a little research and am so confused why they don't still speak spanish. They were a colony of Spain for about as long as Mexico was (300 years) but mexicans still speak spanish. And why in the heck is english an official language?
Also do they plan on making spanish their official language again (like it was once). Are they doing anything about it?
I know that they are differnt dialects and I noticed some of the mexicans at my old job had some difficulty conversing with the south american spanish speaking people. I speak Moderate Mexican-Spanish not fluent and was wondering if that would get me by in spain, Travelling mind you not trying to work or anything
Example: Someone is born in the United States of Mexican parents and speaks both English and Spanish fluently since birth. They then go abroad to France to study French. Will they speak French with an English accent or a Spanish accent, or will they speak it with an accent in between English and Spanish? (By English and Spanish, I mean the English and Spanish languages, not the accents of England and Spain. Obviously in this case this individual would have an American English and a Mexican Spanish accent in their two languages).
There is a Mexican girl in my class and we got into an argument about variants of the Spanish language. She says that Mexican Spanish isn't Spanish and that if a Mexican goes to Spain that the Spaniard and the Mexican won't understand each other. I understand that pronunciation is a little bit different, and I also know that Mexican Spanish has indigenous pre-Spanish Mexican words added to it, but I know it's not a completely different language.
I am learning a Mexican version of Spanish, but I prefer to stay with Spain's vocabulary and slight pronunciations (a loyalist if you will). Is one of the two answers Spain's version of "car"?
I have a big mexican community where I work. I want to learn a bit about the language. I want to know what language to learn. I know there are the mexicans and then there is spain. I want to learn the language the mexicans speak.
When I go to Mcdonald's they can't understand me. And no spanish is not the same
language as mexican. I've asked people from Spain it's not even close.
No, I'm not one of those "ignorant Americans" who thinks that Spanish and Italian are the same language. In fact, I'm half-Swiss and German is my native language along with English. I learned Spanish for some time and then I took up Italian because I was inspired by a trip to Italy. I have noticed countless similarities between the two languages- similar vocabulary and similar grammar/structure. I like Italian better than Spanish but can't learn them both because I'll just confuse the two (which I've already done!). Besides, if I learn Spanish, that's an invitation that all those illegal Mexican immigrants in the US are better than me (analogy: if a guy kills himself over a girl, then that's an invitation that the girl is better than him). I'm actually hoping to move back to Switzerland, so Italian would be better. So, can the Hispanics/Spaniards understand at least the "gist" of an Italian conversation? I'd like input from native Spanish speakers, preferably.
OK, I'm sorry if I offended anyone with the comment about illegal Mexican immigrants. It's just that I feel the US is being invaded by them and we're learning Spanish to communicate with them since they don't know much English. So, if I learn Spanish, those illegal immigrants will be happy and I'll be forced into doing something I don't really want to do. However, I should consider the legal immigrants as well, and I have used a little Spanish with them. On a slightly different note, Italy is a country I'd want to visit over and over, but a vacation to Latin America or Spain is the last thing on my mind in terms of vacation ideas.
Some did, but not all, just like some Mexicans do learn English.
Europeans came to what is now knowed as American, and they preferred to speak English, so it's only fair for Mexican to only speak Spanish.
I meant to say "now known."
Oh, and "America"
lion_sim_bob, so you say times have changed? Well then, I guess times have changed for a second time, and now you have to learn Spanish too.
mnwoman, you will learn Spanish when you go to Spain? Ok, then Mexicans will learn English when they go to ENGLAND, NOT TO THE US!!!!!!!
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'm totally white but I can speak spanish better than anyone (except the mexicans) in my high school spanish class, but my teacher teaches mexican spanish, so my accent is horribly mexican sounding (and american too of course). I want to sound like I'm from Spain or Argentina.
funny, isn't it?? Mexicans never had their own language, they speak Spanish, but sometimes my friends see some Latinos talking to each other in Spanish and then they whisper "listen, isn't it Mexican? It sounds like they speak Mexican. They look like they are Mexican." And I was like "Is Mexican a language???"
my other question is why do some people think all Spaniards speak Spanish?
I have no idea. Once me and a friend were talking with a tourist and at the end we asked him "were are you from?" he said he was from Spain, and my friend automatically said "oh, we study Spanish at school" yes we do but not all Spaniards speak Spanish,...my friend tried to say some words but the man didn't understand anyways because he speaks Gallego "I speak Gallego, not Spanish".
Hahah it was funny because my friend didn't understand a f***
in Spain people speak Castilian (what we call Spanish), or Catalan, Gallego, Euskera, etc.
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.
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!
I know pollo means chicken is spanish(im not stupid).How do you say it in mexican,ive always wanted to speak mexican,than brazilian,than asian
My friend from mexico is coming and i want her to see i can speak a little mexican ^_^
UMMM NO Graham, your wrong. Chicken means Pollo in spanish, which only spanish people(who are from SPAIN) speak spanish, therefore you are wrong and i am right and you are a loser and i am cool. Got IT!!?
I have personally seen this many times. People really get upset if they are from say, Brazil, and are mistaken for a mexican. Is there some sort of elitism amongst south american countries that they feel they are better than mexicans. I have also heard plenty of people from Spain that think this way too. One person claimed that the "butchered" version of Spanish that Mexicans speak is basically slang. Anyway I think that explains what I'm trying to find out.
I wouldn't bother or offend me at all to be mistaken for a canadian.
Since I am going to be in Portugal for a week with family, we have decided that we will be taking a trip to Madrid for a week or so. I'm American, so when my best friend taught me Spanish back in middle school, she taught me to pronounce things with a Mexican accent. So, I was wondering if in Spain, if they heard that I spoke my Spanish with a Mexican accent, would I be looked down upon or treated differently? Thank you so much, I'm looking forward to my trip! =)
Hello!
Well, I am mexican and I always have wondered that. You may know that spanish has different pronunciations, in Spain the 's', 'z' and 'c' aren't pronounced in the same way, in Mexico they do.
So, do you learn spanish with mexican pronunciation?
