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Old 04-18-2014, 10:57 AM
 
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The United States is the second-largest Spanish speaking country after Mexico with over 50 million people speaking it. Better get on board rather than fight it.
Did you ever learn to speak Chicano?

My Chicano friends, in the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant, took a trip to Mexico to meet their relatives, and couldn't understand a dang thing they were saying.

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Old 04-18-2014, 11:00 AM
 
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Did you ever learn to speak Chicano?
I think that is what my X-husband call a very low level of Spanish.
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Old 04-18-2014, 11:12 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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So you think Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, etc., are poised to join forces and take over the world?

OK then.

Oh, wait... I forgot the mighty juggernaut that is Belarus!
Harrier can't take a self described anti-Putinist seriously.

Harrier never said that the Eastern European countries are going to "take over the world" - he did indicate that the region will be of importance in the near future and Slavic languages are worthy of study.
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Old 04-18-2014, 11:20 AM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Harrier never said that the Eastern European countries are going to "take over the world" - he did indicate that the region will be of importance in the near future and Slavic languages are worthy of study.
That's what I thought too... in the 1980s, when I decided to major in Russian.

In retrospect, I wish I had studied Chinese instead. At least the food would have been better.
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Old 04-18-2014, 11:23 AM
 
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Harrier can't take a self described anti-Putinist seriously.

Harrier never said that the Eastern European countries are going to "take over the world" - he did indicate that the region will be of importance in the near future and Slavic languages are worthy of study.
All Slavs know English, German and Russian.
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Old 04-18-2014, 02:55 PM
 
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The United States is the second-largest Spanish speaking country after Mexico with over 50 million people speaking it. Better get on board rather than fight it.
See my post #138. It bears repeating.
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Old 04-18-2014, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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See my post #138. It bears repeating.
No, it doesn't.

Your post was complete nonsense.

Illegal immigrants are not the reason why Spanish is a valuable language.
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Old 04-18-2014, 03:29 PM
 
Location: San Francisco
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Spanish is definitely worth learning, if for no other reason than the US has a Spanish-speaking territory whose residents are full US citizens.
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Old 04-18-2014, 03:32 PM
 
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No, it doesn't.

Your post was complete nonsense.

Illegal immigrants are not the reason why Spanish is a valuable language.
Sure thing and the sky isn't blue.
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Old 04-18-2014, 03:36 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles County, CA
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Sure thing and the sky isn't blue.
The sky actually isn't blue, our eyes just perceive it that way.

What does the color of the sky have to do with the topic under discussion.
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