Sencillo, maten a todos los francesitos y listo.
Why study a romance language?
That's quite extreme. Oh heck. Just learn French and Spanish. How hard can it be? I learned 'em and I'm no genius.
<<Beauty? What is that? Does it produce money? >>
Yeah, try handing "beauty" to your land lord/lady next month for rent.
That's how business is conducted in Latin countries (or rather, how it's *not* conducted). That's why they get nowhere in life.
Yeah, try handing "beauty" to your land lord/lady next month for rent.
That's how business is conducted in Latin countries (or rather, how it's *not* conducted). That's why they get nowhere in life.
<<That's quite extreme. Oh heck. Just learn French and Spanish. How hard can it be? I learned 'em and I'm no genius >>
Which one resulted to be most difficult?
Which one resulted to be most difficult?
I'm a native speaker of English. I found them to be about the same in difficulty.
K.T.'s a liar. He claims to speak about every language on earth but I've never seen anything but English in his posts. Don't give me the excuse that no one understands those language, that's a cop out.
No suelo hablar español porque la lengua franca de este foro es el inglés pero puedo decirle que hablo español perfecto. Lo aprendí por motivos laborales, ya que en tiempos de la guerra fría hube de desplazarme a España en una operación ultrasecreta de la CIA contra los rusos. Mi objetivo era recabar información sobre planes del gobierno soviético para sabotear las bases militares americanas en España. También sé ruso y otras lenguas pero prefiero el español.
Jaja me haces reír K.T. ¿Cuántas profesiones has mantenido? Médico, traductor, agente de la CIA, ingeniero, consejero, trabajo social... Debes de ser Dios personificado!
LOL! No, I'm not a liar. I CANNOT speak almost every language on earth. I'm interested in languages in general and many languages in a specific way.
If you check the archives you will see that I write, translate or give explanations in a few languages here from time to time.
Like many people here (I guess) I can manage in a few languages, understand a few more and study others. I don't have a degree in linguistics, but I used to live in Europe and in Asia, so I have some experience in that way. I also spend time with some immigrants, so I have picked up some words or started studying their languages as well.
If you check the archives you will see that I write, translate or give explanations in a few languages here from time to time.
Like many people here (I guess) I can manage in a few languages, understand a few more and study others. I don't have a degree in linguistics, but I used to live in Europe and in Asia, so I have some experience in that way. I also spend time with some immigrants, so I have picked up some words or started studying their languages as well.
I actually didn't write the note in Spanish above my post, although I can read it.
I have never worked for the CIA. I have mentioned FSI here, perhaps that's where the confusion came in. My profession is in a medical-related field and I have interpreted on occasion because there wasn't anyone else to do this. In the hospital or in the field I have only interpreted for Spanish and French, though. I also have done some limited translating and interpreting for immigrants and in a couple of school settings/classes for mixed languages (semi-lingual speakers).
This is because people ask me to help them and I don't charge them most of the time. I have been paid, but usually a situation will come up, so I do it. That's all.
I like many languages. Please write in your native languages.
I have never worked for the CIA. I have mentioned FSI here, perhaps that's where the confusion came in. My profession is in a medical-related field and I have interpreted on occasion because there wasn't anyone else to do this. In the hospital or in the field I have only interpreted for Spanish and French, though. I also have done some limited translating and interpreting for immigrants and in a couple of school settings/classes for mixed languages (semi-lingual speakers).
This is because people ask me to help them and I don't charge them most of the time. I have been paid, but usually a situation will come up, so I do it. That's all.
I like many languages. Please write in your native languages.
The "fake" K. T. wrote a funny post about how I speak perfect Spanish, but use English because that's the language used in the forum. Of course, I have never had any of those funny experiences, but I can understand how they have been misinterpreted. I do know some Russian, though, a LITTLE.