Americans:Do you know Spanish?

[jingorex]

[Kriptc06]

What about a portuguese, who does not know how to speak Spanish, awkward ?

hola! buenos días, hablo portugués, si, como estás?
gracias

[Rethel]

Good point. We really don't have a need for it anyways. Any country whose residents don't know English as at least a second language are probably going to be bombed sometime.

Negros in Africa were sitting under a palm, and did not have a need
of hunting or cloving for winter... look what happend with them...

[Rethel]

I am still shocked about it

You shouldn't, because their phonetics is a piece
of cake for us. Especially if you pronounce he

[UkrainianGirl]

You shouldn't, because their phonetics is a piece
of cake for us. Especially if you pronounce he

Well I did think learning Spanish in high school was easier than choosing to learn French. So makes sense i guess lol.

[Potentia]

Lol, shit..

I don't really know much Spanish.

[Isleño]

Mejicans are a huge discouraging factor in learning the language I would imagine. If Spaniards were to live next door however,... it might be the same. Cristiano Viejo coming to live next door to Etain. Imagine.

Anyway, I'm no American, but I voted for 'A little'. My Spanish is very rudimentary. I got curious during one point in my life what the language is about, then moved on. I can read quite a bit of their news articles. It was a useful endeavour.

I think she was talking to non-Hispanic Americans. I'm an American, but I'm of Hispanic origin, so I'm not giving an answer here. But yeah, I'm assuming the thread is directed toward Americans, since it's entitled "Americans: Do you know Spanish?"

[Isleño]

Well I did think learning Spanish in high school was easier than choosing to learn French. So makes sense i guess lol.

I find French fairly simple to pick up since both French and Spanish are Latin derived and I learned Spanish at home. I do remember the first time I really had a conversation in Spanish with someone from outside of my community as a child and there was often I would use a word they were not familiar with and it made me realize just how much slang I use in my Spanish dialect.

[Isleño]

Lol, shit..

I don't really know much Spanish.

C'mon bro, you got to learn the basics at least lol

[Al-Meksiki]

I don't speak Spanish as a native language, but I was surrounded by it by way of family who did and surroundings as a child (spending time in Guatemala and Mexico in my childhood). I do speak it fluently though, at least enough to where I'm comfortable using it with other people and getting myself understood.

It's a very easy language. Extremely simple phonology and grammar, a phonetic spelling, and clear, pure sounds. This is really the langauge that should be a global lingua franca, as opposed to a beast like English.