To think that Spanish is a ridiculous language?

[Ammadam]

Sorry to any spanish speakers. But I just wanted a mimor moan.

I've lived in France and Italy before. I thought the French and Italian languages were totally fine. They make sense. I became quite good at speaking Italian with the locals.

I'm in Spain on holiday. I've come to Spain many times on holiday, and so I'm always trying to learn Spanish a bit.

It's just such a crazy language.

Why is every word so long. Why are there so many changes for every word. Why does it sound like babble. Add to that, it's spoken extremely fast. Apparently it's the second fastest spoken language.

I was actually just talking about this to some Spanish people at a group here. They agreed that it's a very difficult language.

They said that everything is said in a much longer way than in English.

For example "Star wars" in Spanish, is "la guerra de galactica"

That's not what I said I didn't say....try to follow.

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Why are you on this thread if you hate it so much?

Good Lord. What a contentious thread.

Parade of the Furries.

Another alternative name for Star Wars, the Chewbacca edition.

Italian here. I also speak Spanish, which is very very similar in grammar, structure, words, verbs etc.
I agree the beauty of English is that some expressions are way more concise as Spanish/Italian have more subordinates and also use more commas than full stops.
Speed I wouldn't be able to comment. In my experience EVERY language is spoken very quickly by natives, depending on context. Normally the more proficient you are the better you understand.

As an Italian, I find Spanish super easy compared to German. French and English are somewhere in between.

How rude. It's not ridiculous, it's different.

I'm having lots of fun doing Spanish on Duo Lingo, I find it quite an enjoyable language to speak. Though I'm not entirely sure how knowing 'the boy is eating an apple' in Spanish will help me on holiday there!

I was wondering if that was the Spanish translation for something to do with Ewoks

We hated the bash Spanish thread. We're loving the alternative Star Wars thread.

Yes the simplicity of English is that it's much more concise.

Italian is a beautiful language btw

Yes. You'd be better off learning "the boy is flying a spaceship".

Are these levels a real thing or your personal assessment. (Just curious, not trying to pick a fight!)

I agree. I've tried to learn both. I found Spanish much easier than French.

I came on to chat about learning languages and stayed because a few things made me laugh. HTH.

Personally, I find Spanish fairly straightforward, with an easy pronunciation (unlike French, which I love, but find difficult).
A lovely language and not too difficult to learn.

or Russian!

I think you are getting me mixed up with someone else.

look back at my posts please.

The only thing I said about Star Wars was the below

“I like the way that Spanish phrases, names etc are longer. Guerra de la Galaxia ( or whatever it is) sounds more romantic/flowery than Star Wars”

Verbally? Or was it via text? Considering you're bickering about an 's' sound at the end of the words, and in Spain the 's' is a 'th' sound often barely audible to an English native when spoken at speed, you might have just misheard.

Btw @Ammadam i have reported your comment where you suggested someone needs psychiatric help because they disagreed with you. Not cool.

Oh yes, and on top of all Russian’s complexities you have to learn a whole new alphabet first. Keep well away from Russian OP!

I don’t speak Spanish myself, but when DP was at school, he was given the option of doing a Spanish ‘O’ level in sixth year. He was already doing French ‘A’ level at this point. He completed the Spanish ‘O’ level in one year and got a not too shoddy B. He said he found it a very easy language to learn compared to French. And definitely compared to Irish😆

And just in case anyone is wondering, the Russian for Star Wars is Звёздные войны
How ridiculous is that?

So many egos on this thread😄

I learned some Spanish when living in Gib, teaching in English but having pupils mix the two was fascinating. They used whichever they found easiest, a discussion in Spanish about a Maths topic usually had Spanish but 'el differential equation' thrown in! Someone my husband worked with arranged for her sister to do some cleaning for us, I rarely saw her as I was also working and any communication was through her sister and my husband. It was a year or so when I realised that 'Mihermana' wasn't her name but was 'my sister', husband would be told 'Mi hermana needs some more polish' or whatever.

For anyone here for the Star Wars chat, I found this interesting

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/english-language/may-the-forza-be-you-star-wars-other-languages