• Licherally@lemmy.ml
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      In the US we take like four to six years of Spanish and walk away with “donde estas la biblioteca” and “donde esta el baño.”

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        That’s because you don’t want to learn Spanish. I know English because I wanted to learn it. I practiced it daily and got pretty decent at it.

        I also took 4 years of German. I hardly remember any of it. Because I wasn’t interested in learning any. It was just something I had to do.

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        i just remember “dios mio no es beno” from that 70’s show. i probably spelled that incorrectly.

        although i cheated… i took 2 years of spanish in jr. high, and didn’t learn shit. so i took my native language in hs and college. got an a- in college.

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      Jay parlay France-says trey bee-in! Jaytude quart annes in laycool.

      That’s all I need to know as an American. Any French speakers will immediately switch into English and forbid me from speaking in French, lol.

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        Here is an attempt to fix that for you: J’ai parlé français, c’est très bien. J’ai étudié quatre années à l’école.

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      Hey speak for yourself, I was forced into French immersion school by my parents with promises of good government jobs. Now I can understand French but Quebecois is a whole different beast 😂

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      The foundations of my French were built on puzzling out the backs of shampooing bottles while sitting on the crapper, pre-internet.