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Well, Spanish is very popular in Catalonia.
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In Italy Spanish is popular too whereas Italian is not studied at all in Spain.
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That's because Spaniards are even more lazier than Americans when it comes to learning foreign languages. It's a always surprise when a native of Spain speaks three words of English to a tourist!
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That's the reason why people study Spanish honey. If the Spaniards spoke all them perfect English like the Dutch do, then nobody would study Spanish.
Spanish is the second most studied foreign language in Sweden. 20% of students choose Spanish there.
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Bullshit. French and German share #2 in Sweden. Spanish is a third/fourth language.
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<< Bullshit. French and German share #2 in Sweden. Spanish is a third/fourth language. >>
Agree!
12% of the Swedes speak French while just 6% for the Spanish.
Languages of the European Union (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eu_languages)
I'm so happy that the link is now updated and with more accurate data. Before it was English.
Russian is the most popular foreign language in Bulgaria. It is second in Poland after English unlike before it's German. It is also second in Slovakia. English and German are tied at number 1.
German is first in Czech Republic and Hungary and it tied with English as number 1 in Slovakia.
<< Spanish is the second most studied foreign language in Sweden. 20% of students choose Spanish there. >>
That's because Spanish is the easiest and easy to pass without strict rules as if when students learn how to pronounce the words and construct simple sentences in Spanish. When those students graduated, they drop Spanish like a hot potato, thrown into complete oblivion. Swedes take English, French, and German seriously that when they speak them its impeccable.
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I'm spaniard and i agree with this thread .Spanish is not a major language in europe. But yes in all Americas.
Do you know there are more spanish speakers in USA than in Spain?
Do you know brazilians are learning spanish in their schools? And beside they can understand it fair well without education, They are very close languages.
You can find spanish speakers from Alaska to Patagon (North pole to South pole).
I think the future of spanish is in america but not in europe.
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" Spanish is NOT important in Europe. German and French are much more important"
It is not because French and German are more natively spoken in Europe that these languages are more "important" than Spanish. Spanish still is seen as a very important language in Europe, and it is very learnt in many countries: in France it is second most teached language (just after English; while English is obligatory and not Spanish; which means that the people ho learn it shoosed to learn it.)
As well as Spanish, English is not the most natiely spoken languages, it doesn't help it to be generally considered to be the most important European language to know. The Same applies to Spanish; for the simple reason that Europe is not a "close" world, without interactions with its former colonies: the countries outside of Europe that speak European languages.
There are many imigrants from all latin America in many various European countries; many Europeans go in winter holidays in Mexico, COsta Rica, the Caribean or other Spanish speaking areas. Many scientific programs, such as the VLT (european telescope in CHile) links Europe and south America. Many south Americans continue to hold a European citizenship (it is true for many argentineans); and many Europeans have families that have emigrated to an hispanis country in the past centuries.. all this have created special relations with Spanish language in many European countries.
PS: by the way; being part of the Americas doesn't mean that all hispano_American countries are that close to the US; for exemple Buenos aires is not really closer to Europe than to the USA; it is even farther to Seattle than to Paris.
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In my view, Spanish will be out of fashion soon. It is not that useful and Spanish speaking countries are insignificant and not that important economically, culturally and politically. It's the perfect languages for lazy teens: easy, flolkloristic and fashionable..
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" That's because Spanish is the easiest and easy to pass without strict rules "
Spanish is far to be an easy language. Spanish Conjugaison is actually as complicated than french one (maybe even more with stronger use of subjonctive tenses). It is even harder to someone who is not trained of romance gramar and conjugaisons. For germanic speakers all the vocabulary has to be learned.
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<<It's the perfect languages for lazy teens: easy, flolkloristic and fashionable.. >>
So, it will be soon the second in European Union, like in USA...
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Hmmm...The strengh of English in European Union is good for Spanish. I explain it.
English is almost the semi-official language of the European Union, compulsory in all the schools.
After English, there are 4 secondary languages in Europe: German, French, Spanish and Italian. All of them less important, because you can use English from Ireland to Greece.
You can speak English in Germany, France, Italy and Spain. But, there are other Continents.
Which of the last languages is the most spoken out of the European Union, not considering English?
Spanish.
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"That's the reason why people study Spanish honey. If the Spaniards spoke all them perfect English like the Dutch do"
Do the Dutch speak perfect English? he he he he
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<<You can find spanish speakers from Alaska to Patagon (North pole to South pole).>>
Do you think that you can travel from Patagon to Argentine Antarctica only with Spanish?
In Alaska, Seattle and Portland Spanish is only spoken by Hispanic minorities. Here it is more difficult
From California to Argentina/ Argentine Antartica - yes.
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