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--- Quote ---the sentence order are quite the opposite
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Not really, other than adjectives coming after nouns you can pretty much translate a sentence directly between Spanish and English. In fact there are even a few cases in English where the adjective comes after the noun. See below for an example.
Have you ever heard the term "Spanglish"? It's pretty much switching back and forth between Spanish and English while speaking (or in a rap song). I don't think that two languages can be that interchangeable if they were different enough to call "opposite".
From BBC World Service: (Hench the meter/kilometer nonsense.)
--- Quote --- * The fence around the estate was three metres high, thirty-five kilometres long and one hundred and twenty years old.
* This place doesnâ??t look very promising, but letâ??s try and find somewhere nice for dinner.
* I couldnâ??t find anything interesting on the television so I had an early night.
* Thereâ??s somebody outside who wants to speak to you. Shall I let him in?
* Nobody present at the meeting was able to offer me any useful advice.
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Now I would say that English, which is basically a combination Germanic, Latin and Old French, is very closely related to Spanish as compared to say, a language that uses logograms and a tonal language such as Chinese.
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Soul Sojourner:
Actually, in most schools around here, Spanish classes are the most popular language class, one reason is said to be that students have an easier time understanding the language in comparison to other language programs.
Tyrael:
--- Quote ---Not really, other than adjectives coming after nouns you can pretty much translate a sentence directly between Spanish and English. In fact there are even a few cases in English where the adjective comes after the noun. See below for an example.
Have you ever heard the term "Spanglish"? It's pretty much switching back and forth between Spanish and English while speaking (or in a rap song). I don't think that two languages can be that interchangeable if they were different enough to call "opposite".
From BBC World Service: (Hench the meter/kilometer nonsense.)
Now I would say that English, which is basically a combination Germanic, Latin and Old French, is very closely related to Spanish as compared to say, a language that uses logograms and a tonal language such as Chinese.
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Just because theres a few sentences that are not the opposite doesnt mean there arent, the pronunciation its still completely different ( i still cant understand it properly if its talked fast), after having learned it i would say that english is not any close to spanish, it may have a very few words derived from spanish, but about 80%(or even more) of the words arent any close to their spanish translation nor pronunciation.
--- Quote ---Actually, in most schools around here, Spanish classes are the most popular language class, one reason is said to be that students have an easier time understanding the language in comparison to other language programs.
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Actually i cant be arsed for most of the things you say because about 90% of the times you just reply cos your bored and most of the times you dont really know shit, :P.
Actually german should be way easier to learn than spanish, aswell as english is easier for germans.
I dont know any single german that doesnt know english and i live on a tourist island its like full of germans almost the whole year, and a few more that came to live here.
I worked as a tourist guide last summer and i work on a travel agency now, so ive met a lot of them and since i dont know german i always ask if they know english... none of them has ever said no.
But if you ask a spanish guy if they know english or german like 80% of the answers would be no...
Soul Sojourner:
They teach English in alot of German schools too, probably most or all of them (that would be my guess), because it's such a popular language that is used internationally.
--- Quote ---Actually i cant be arsed for most of the things you say because about 90% of the times you just reply cos your bored and most of the times you dont really know shit
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Or it's because you can't understand half of what I say, and don't really know shit yourself. Ahah! :P
Alot of people around here speak both Spanish and English, and tons of people I know personally at least know a portion of the Spanish language... because it's taught alot up here, and we get alot of Mexicans coming up here.
I think I'm seeing a pattern... alot of English speaking people learning spanish because the schools teach it and it's around alot (and only as an elective believe it or not!), and alot of German speaking people learning English because the schools teach it and it's around alot... wait a minute...
Do you even understand that? No? Ah, I expected as much... your Spanish... English is too hard for you... at least, that's how you say it is. So I can understand why you don't get it... I guess. :lol:
--- Quote ---But if you ask a spanish guy if they know english or german like 80% of the answers would be no...
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How about asking a Mexican guy? Oh, and can you site the source of those statistics... or is it just confined to the Spanish people you know and/or have asked and base the statistic off of personal experience?
Tyrael:
I said spanish not mexican, mexicans talk is like a mess up of spanish :P, and most surely know english.
And i said it for personal experience, in all the years of school, from the start through the end of it, no1 liked english because it was too hard for them, i though it was only where i live but while studying abroad i found out that was exactly the same, only about 3 people out of 35 would pass english, and then while playing online games only 2 out of 10 could speak english (if they actually try to play on an english server).
And come on, the language teaching in schools suck, everyone can learn that cos its only about 1/4 of the real matter, i know that myself because the english classes were almost the same every year even in the year b4 university, i think most ppl couldnt pass english just because they hated it... just like i hated maths :P.
And i do understand all the crap you say, but its just that your reading comprehension its even worse than my english :P.
Because i didnt say english was hard for me, but for most people is.
This was all your fault because your reading comprehension sucks and you typed my name wrong!!, look what you have done!! :P
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