Reacties op: Argentinan Stories

Door: Judy

Judy — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:26:38 +0000

I am alledgedley a descendent of the Spanish Inquisitadores,they ‘entered’ my belgian (flemish roots) long time ago (so our collective memory is rather failing).I’d rather prefer to allocate my dark complexion and hair to Don Quixote.But it’s true : the world is a global market- and meetingplace, f.e.this blogentry.
Hasta la vista.

Door: Dominiek

Dominiek — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:47:57 +0000

“surrounded by Spanish speaking countries” –> except for Brazil, where people only seem to speak Portugese !

Door: Gaby

Gaby — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:26:22 +0000

Sure, that is something we don’t have in Argentina. We are a big country, surrounded by Spanish speaking countries, never conquered by other than Spanish.
AND, we are pretty far away from the rest of the world; so we don’t have the “need” to be communicating with other people in different languages. Until now, because the world is getting smaller as we speak.
We do have English as second language in school, but the education level for that is pretty low. Plus, there’s a prejudice against people who speak other languages -being English or French or German, don’t ask me why, like you are trying “to look” like a foreigner. Very stupid indeed, and you end up with almost no practice, and feeling like “your English” won’t ever be good enough… But again, it’s a matter of practice, you know, trial and error, somebody will be kind enough to let you know when you are making a mistake.
Oh, and about the Spanish: you’ve been conquered by spaniards too in Flanders! so i guess there must be some collective memory of that, which makes it not so difficult to learn Spanish…

Door: elsbabbel

elsbabbel — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:21:26 +0000

@Gaby
Well Gaby, I’ve been told that it’s easier for us to learn Spanish, than it is for Spanishspeeking people to learn Dutch !
You know why we easily pick up foreign languages here in Belgium ?
That’s because we are such a small country that most of the people never heard of it ! So we have to shout loud to be heard… We’ve been conquered since ages by foreign people, coming all over the ocean or over the land, leaving their seeds behind… That’s why Belgians are ‘famous’ being negotiators too.

Door: elsbabbel

elsbabbel — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:07:14 +0000

Yo comprendo y hablo la lengua espagnola perro me falto el ejercicio !

Door: Gaby

Gaby — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:36:42 +0000

I have the same with Flemish, Dominiek!
Never mind, if you read and practice maybe one day you’ll be fluent for writing. It’s good enough that you UNDERSTAND it! You guys here in Belgium have the wonderful capability of switching from one language to another very quickly…

Door: Dominiek

Dominiek — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:22:01 +0000

I love to read spanish, I understand the most, but I’m so desperate I can’t write it at all !

Door: Gaby

Gaby — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:08:46 +0000

Marina,
no le tengas miedo a escribir en inglés, al principio a mi también me daba cagazo pero después vi que habia gente a la que le gustaba de lo que yo hablaba y no les importaba que tuviera errores (al contrario, hasta se divertian con ellos!)
Yo vivo aqui en Flanders y tengo un weblog en español -es el link de arriba, pero solia escribir aqui: http://www.killuglyradio.com con el nickname Dr Sharleena; jamas nadie me hostigo o algo asi con respecto a mi inglés, al contrario.
Un consejo: para mejorarlo (tu inglés) consegui libros y leé mucho. No escribas muy largo, anda al punto que querés contar asi no te complicas. Y si no sabés como decir o traducir algo escribime! a lo mejor te puedo ayudar… Suerte y animate!

Door: LOT

LOT — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:26:57 +0000

Oh, and Marina : don’t mind the stupid humour of people like Dirty Jos and Karl above !!!

Door: LOT

LOT — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:26:07 +0000

This sounds so cute!
I’m really looking forward towards marina’s stories and adventures!