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Yeah.
Por favor, Gracias, and ¿ usted hablan inglés?
is all the spanish you need.

What about "people who nothing about" English?

DukeofNuke wrote:

Yeah.
Por favor, Gracias, and ¿ usted hablan inglés?
is all the spanish you need.

And ¿Dónde está mi cerveza?

Congress should pass a law forcing everyone in America to learn spanish.

benightedbastard wrote:

DukeofNuke wrote:

Yeah.
Por favor, Gracias, and ¿ usted hablan inglés?
is all the spanish you need.

And ¿Dónde está mi cerveza?

That's been replaced by;
"Tequlia, por favor!"

bratboy wrote:

Aqua OS X wrote:

What about "people who nothing about" English?

Damn it I knew I'd be too late to make that joke.

I think there's an ICANN regulation that states "all BB posts pertaining to improper grammar or language must be ironic."

bloomsday wrote:

Congress should pass a law forcing everyone in America to learn spanish.

It's already difficult to get some jobs in california if you don't speak some spanish (mostly manual labor, like construction).

Don't forget the essential:

"¡Tengas mi tortuga en tus pantalones!"

oatmeal wrote:

shapoopy wrote:

Don't forget the essential:

"¡Tengas mi tortuga en tus pantalones!"

You have my turtle in your pants?

it's very often that i have a real thank you

resedit wrote:

should not try to use it.

After visiting the vet, I ran into Jack in the Box for their tasty 99 cent tacos.
In front of me was a mexican man in his late 30s, speaking broken english but understandable.

The lady at the register, after he paid, said - "Thank you my amiga"

He gave her a really funny look, took his food, and kept looking back over shoulder as if he was contemplating bitch slapping her.

Anyway - I thought the whole thing was rather funny. He apparently didn't.

What is the difference in meaning? I took French, not Spanish, so I don't know

akb825 wrote:

An appended a means feminine. An appended o would mean masculine. Essentially, she was calling him a female friend. Regardless of how wrong it is, he should have understood that she doesn't know Spanish.

He may have understood that - but still been offended that she was trying to patronize him.

C. Ives wrote:

resedit wrote:

akb825 wrote:

An appended a means feminine. An appended o would mean masculine. Essentially, she was calling him a female friend. Regardless of how wrong it is, he should have understood that she doesn't know Spanish.

He may have understood that - but still been offended that she was trying to patronize him.

Then he was an smurf. I spent a few weeks in Europe this summer, and in France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Italy I was extremely happy when the locals made an attempt to speak English to me, no matter how botched it was.  They may have screwed it up, but they made an effort, which they certainly didn't have to do.

My calculus teacher likes to go to France.
She told us that language was a problem - the places where she went, communication was difficult.
So she took two years of French - and went back.

She said at many places, when English wasn't working, she would try to use French - but her french was so bad that the people couldn't stand it, and suddenly, their English got better.