Originally Posted by
El_Jibaro
I lived in Pontevedra (where my dad is from) for two years growing up and usually visit every year or so (not last year for reasons obvious) About half the population in Galicia speaks Gallego, but sadly most of the speakers are older people. The younger people speak Gallego just in rural areas outside the major cities (almost impossible to see young people from the city speaking it, save for independentistas and others). I have been all over the province of Coruña and it has caught my attention that in Santiago people speak much more in Gallego than elsewhere. I know people from Costa da Morte and they also all speak Gallego and I speak it with them, in fact I like this and it seems ridiculous to me that in stores and such, they speak Castilian to you as if it had a higher "level". I do not like those who do not respect Gallego, nor do I like those who do not respect Castilian...there are many people, especially in "La Coru" who have it in their heads that speaking Gallego is from paletos. Of course lets not mention the fact that the "standardized" Gallego they teach in schools has nothing to do with the traditional one, basically the fucking nationalists have invented a new language in order to differentiate it from Castilian and make it seem more like the Portuguese. Anyway I speak the real Gallego of my ancestors since my father taught me it. I'm proud of my roots and many people have struggled before me to be able to speak this beautiful language without getting shot in the head for it
El problema del gallego, supongo q como el catalán o el euskera, es que si lo hablas eres un gañán y si no lo hablas eres un facha...Y esto despues se mezcla con la política parlamentaria y ya tenemos polóticas errantes cada 4 años. En fin...
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