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Everyone thinking Canadians are bilingual but it's just we were forced to take french in school and can now say "ou est le supermarche?" and that's it.
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."
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.
Hey it's important that we know we're the el baño is. Very important. Yes.
Just about as important as "un cervesa, por favor"
Lávate los manos!
American Dad refference ❤️
I took half that many years of Spanish, and that’s about all I remember too. Also, “tocar los pompes”. I feel like we do it all wrong here though. Language classes aren’t typically until high school, and by then your ability to learn languages is far less than when you are younger. It can still be done, but you have to want to, and teenagers have too much going on to care about speaking a language they haven’t used this far in their life.
Tocar los pompes? What are pompes? Is it slang for something? Spanish is my first language and I've never heard that word
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.