[MaryMag]

How much do you know?

I went to a Latino cultural awards thing last night (my friend from Mexico City was winning an award) and 90% of it was in spanish. I caught some phrases here and there and my friend's family applauded me whenever I pulled out my meager spanish phrases, ("ahhh le extrano! le idolatro!")

So I know un poco poco poco. How about anybody else?

[LaurelDP]

I live in Southern California and know, like, none.

It's sad.

I just did a bilingual production of Romeo & Juliet and I learned a lot, though.

[MaryMag]

yeah we live in areas where there are VERY large hispanic populations. it woudl be extra helpful for us! i found i have so many hispanic friends that i'm gradually learning it, without consciously deciding to!

[LaurelDP]

[Matthew]

I take French. I know a little bit of Spanish and can figure a lot out.

[BwayJuvinile]

I have learned spanish from some of the people i have worked with...but they teach me dirty spanish...and not stuff you would say to people in regular chat. And it's funny because it's not the guys teaching me the dirty stuff, its the girls.

[ConverseSneaker]

I took two years of required spanish and then dropped it. I can say stuff like so and so is artistic/etc and the colors and numbers. My greatest( and most useful) achievement is "Lo siente, para Yo no habla espanol. Por favor, tu habla igles para yo?"

Translation of what I think I just said: I'm sorry, but I can't speak spanish. Please, could you speak english for me?

[Annie]

Veeeeeeery little. I took two years in high school, but as you can probably guess, living in Quebec doesn't really require Spanish proficiency!
It's funny and ironic, though - I'm moving to NYC in one week. I'm fluent in French, after having been forced to study it even more than English throughout elementary, high school and CEGEP, but it will soon be completely useless! (unless I join an NYU club with barets and cheese!)

I'd love to speak more Spanish, though. That'd be great. It's such a beautiful language. Maybe I'll take a course.....

[star2ballie]

I took 4 years in High School and learned from one of my good friends.

Still, un poco! Not as much as I should. Just conversational.

[blackbird_fly]

I take French in school and picked up some Italian on vacation. So I can pick out a bit.

[Bookworm]

I know some, but not much. I really don't know anyone who speaks spanish as a native language and I wish I did! I would love to learn it from a firsthand speaker.

[Micaela?]

I'm almost fluent in my speaking, but I can't write in Spanish too well, an my reading ability is somewhat proficient.

When I was growing up, I was taught Spanish at the same time as English, because my family speaks it.

[le_moofin]

I'm taking Spanish IV AP.... but I'm still not confident in my Spanish. I can translate literature pretty well, but in conversations I easily get lost, especially if the speaker talks very fast or with a hard-to-understand accent. I originally learned Spanish from a teacher who was a tour guide in Mexico, so her speech was very clear and not too quick. However, my current teacher has been to Spain several times and prefers to speak with the Barcelona lisp and slurring of words and phrases. I can switch between either fairly well, although I'm not very good at South American accents. For instance, I pronounce "me llamo" as "may yamo", not "may jamo".

Still, I adore the language and love learning new verb conjugations, vocabulary, etc.

[Bookworm]

I was taught some Spanish in preschool! However it went in one ear and out the other..

[Quique]

I'm fluent in it for the most part. But to a native Spanish speaker, it'd be very obvious that I was born and raised in the U.S. My parents sometimes correct and poke fun at the way I speak it, lol. I can read and write it OK, but not perfectly. My Spanish sucked so badly when I was a kid, but I got interested in Spanish music during my early twenties and learned a lot more of it that way.

[ConverseSneaker]

[disneybeauty]

I took six years of Spanish thru high school and college. I was fluent, especially when I worked at Disneyland (I used it every day, sometimes all day). Now, I understand what is said to me, but the verb and the conjugation escape me.