--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > TurquoiseB wrote: > > I am taking a Spanish class. A beginner's Spanish > > class. Even though I lived close to the Mexican border > > for many years, my interest in and mastery of the > > Spanish language was pretty much limited to asking for > > a cervesa or for the servicios. Fortunately those two > > terms kinda go together, so I got by all these years > > without having to know more. > So what languages do you know already? Just English? Did you learn French? > > I've been struggling with learning Spanish trying to find a lazy way to > do so. I'm not much good with languages including English. :) I had > almost four years of French, two in high school and two in college. Not > my best subject. I worked with Vyas Houston's Sanskrit course and got a > ways along in it and that helped me with Hindi which I got to a point > where I needed to more Hindi reading to increase my vocabulary but > didn't. I have several Spanish self teaching courses and am trying to > get to the point where I've got enough so I can kinda understand what's > on Telemundo and Univision. Knowing another "romance" language helps > though. BTW, they say that the news on those stations is more straight > forward so Mexicans must have a better idea of what is going on in the > world than gringos. :) > > Around here you sometimes want to drop into Spanish just to get your > order right. ;-) >
I've been trying to learn some Spanish by watching Mi Gorda Bella and attempting to connect the subtitles to the spoken text. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZt_fg6GlLs Haven't been very successful at that... :D
