I speak english My wife and step son english y spanish am i wrong to ask them to speak english when with me?
My wife and my step son wont speak english when im around even though they are bilingual.When they are alone they just speak spanish.When im with my wife she speaks english when im with my step son he speaks english.When they talk to each other they speak spanish even though im there.Am i wrong to say something? I feel so unimportant and I never know whats being said or whats going on Im always the last one to find out.Any advice would be appreciated.
I dont speak english you speak spanish ?"""?
then how did you write all of that stuff
Can you speak Spanish?
Creo que si! I believe so!I started learning Spanish after moving to Mexico in 2004. It was very slow at first since I live in a forest and didn’t have a lot of contact with Spanish speakers except those in stores.After I had closer friends visiting me at Bosque Village, my Spanish started to improve rapidly. Brian Fey's answer to Mexico: What is Bosque Village ?I still make a lot of grammar mistakes, don’t know many colloquial phrases, and when the conversation topic turns to things I have never spoken about before, I don’t know the words.I write a little on Spanish Quora, but I am slow and ashamed of making many mistakes. My profile on Quora Spanish: Brian FeyI think it would be great for the US and Mexico is people on both side of the border could speak both English and Spanish as it would help with long turn prosperity and peace for North America.
If you speak English and Spanish, do you think in Spanglish?
I think I understand your question. Let me rephrase it to see if I’m right.Do people who are bilingual have a special internal language that is a kind of mix between the two languages in question?If this is your question, I would say that no, there isn’t a ‘mixture’ language.Although it’s true that learners often use a mixture-language,(like Spanglish), I believe that true bilinguals, trilinguals and polyglots, (not learners), choose one of their languages to think in when doing certain tasks.This is definitely true for the task of mathematics. People do math in the language they first did math with in school. I specify ‘in school’, because many bilingual people use their ‘mother-tongue’, (that is the language they mostly speak at home), for everyday activities like eating, cooking, clothing, cleaning etc. ,whereas they use their second language when they go to school. You don’t typically do math at home at an early age.That being said, bilinguals who didn’t start speaking their second language until after the age of 10 or so, would do math in their mother tongue, because the ‘math’ vocabulary and functions have already been established.My daughter, who is trilingual, prefers different languages for different tasks. She speaks English with me and does ‘home’ things in English. She speaks French with her father and does movies, park and games in French. She speaks Spanish at school and does ‘play’ in Spanish. Even when she is at home and playing alone, she speaks Spanish to her dolls. I have never heard her use a ‘mix’.Let me clarify that last bit. Although she may substitute a Spanish word when she is speaking English, or French for Spanish etc., it is only to fill a vocabulary gap, (that is, she simply doesn’t know the word in English, French or Spanish). As she gets older these ‘substitutions’ get less and less frequent because she is constantly filling her vocabulary gaps, as all children do.So, is that Spanglish? I would say no. Spanglish, or any other mixture of languages is used by ‘learners’, not true bilinguals. So, a bilingual wouldn’t think in a mixture language.Just my opinion, feel free to oppose.
How well do Spanish people know english?
According to official numbers somewhere 20 to 30% percent of the population can speak English (Idioma inglés en España - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre)In addition to the other answer, let me point you some facts about this, as a Spanish citizen who has tried hard to learn English (not always successfully).Spanish grammar is different from English one.Pronunciation is very hard for Spanish speakersBut Greeks do have a similar phonetic system and different grammar, so why do they speak more English than Spaniards? Here are some interesting facts:The dictatorship never allowed media to be distributed in English in order to keep censorship.Even English names were read in Spanish to keep people away from that "bad influence"In Spain, it is "funny" saying that you don't speak English. There are a lot of jokes about that. If you can understand Spanish, here's a quite recent one:Socially, "everybody" has tried for ages to learn English without success (thankfully this is improving thanks to education and the Internet, but I have always been surprised on how this happens all the time). Check the above video again. When a Spaniard says s/he speaks "inglés nivel medio" they barely can say hello and goodbye.Generally speaking, the Spanish educational system is not too good either. I know it because I'm a teacher myself. Our PISA tests are below the average of the OECD countries. Some years ago it was because there was no money for education. Then we had money for education (just a bit more and never enough) and then parents got too busy and overworked to properly keep track of their children. Now we have a lot of education budget reductions and things are going worse... A sense of pride with Spanish. Of course the language and the Spanish culture is something to be proud of but a lot of people believe "Hey, if Spanish is one of the most-spoken languages in the world, why should I bother learning English?" You can see this in many Spanish media as well. El País has a lot of articles saying that "Spanish is very importan in the US" (oh, and I found this same attitude in France, btw). If you can read Spanish, you can read this thread in Meneame: El mito de la importancia del idioma español en Estados Unidos. Un idioma sin prestigioOf course I'm missing a few facts and probably this is not a complete answer but at least you can have some insight from the inside.
The new tickle me Elmo is spanish speaking and English speaking. How can you laugh in two different languages?
I'm writing this for a review for my high school paper, and I want as many details as I can get. I'm in the process of downloading a video if the elmo, but I don't understand the whole spanish speaking and english speaking, if all he does is laugh.
How do I say "I speak a little Spanish" in Spanish?
Teacher: ¿Hablas español? ¿Cuánto español hablas? > Do you speak Spanish? How well Spanish do you speak?English-speaker student: Hablo un poco./ Hablo un poco de español. > I speak a little./ I speak a little Spanish.T: ¿Hablas inglés? > Do you speak English?E: Hablo un poco más. > I speak a little more.T: Esperemos. > Let’s hope.E: ¿Cuántos idiomas habla usted, señor profesor? > Teacher, how many languages do you speak?T: Yo hablo dos idiomas: Español y por teléfono. > I speak two languages: Spanish and by phone.E: ¿Habla usted castellano o español? > Do you speak Castilian or Spanish?T: Nadie en el mundo habla ya castellano. El castellano no existe. Sólo existe el español. > No one in the world speaks Castilian anymore. Castilian does not exist. Only Spanish exists.
If you speak both English and Spanish completely fluently, how exactly do your thoughts sound?
I am a native Spanish speaker from Ecuador raised in the U.S. At work, I use English 99.9% of the time as most of the people I work with don't speak any Spanish at all and even with the one co-worker that does, I use English out of courtesy for the rest.At home I use Spanish and English but mostly English as my wife is more comfortable in the latter as she is a U.S.-born Latina. I speak predominantly in English to my 9 year old son and so does she, as that is the only language he can speak and fully understand at this time.I only use Spanish with my parents, sister, brother-in-law and my extended family as well as my wife's parents and extended family. I also predominantly use Spanish with my neighbors and around my community.Since English predominates on my day to day that is the language that I mostly think in. My Spanish switch only turns on in family gatherings or when I'm in a place with lots of Spanish speakers. It is then that I think mostly in Spanish.So if I had to estimate I would say I think in English 70% of the time and Spanish 30%.Although I consider myself fully fluent in both, I have found myself speaking the “wrong language” to people when I'm drunk or highly stressed. I have spoken English to my non-English speaking father while drunk a few times and say “pero” in the middle of an English conversation to my English-only co-workers at work while stressed out.A lot of times, my thoughts come much faster in English than in Spanish and I often find myself translating from English to Spanish in my head before saying something in Spanish to someone.In short, I do most of my thinking in English even though Spanish is my first language and I didn't speak a word of English until age 13.
I do not speak English very well... HELP!!?
Dear Saiirin, I totally understand your feeling because I've been there too. I moved to the United States from Taiwan in 7th grade speaking NO English, and I felt so ashamed and stupid EVERY SINGLE DAY. Can you believe it? My father even had to show the principal my IQ test result from 4th grade to prove that I was not retarded or anything. I was completely silent for two years and I didn't have any real friends. I hated English and I hated America.. so much. Some of my classmates made fun of me, immitated Chinese (like one of the answerers above did), etc., and they would not stop until I started crying. I think you are doing better than me, already speaking in front of the class and everything! The first time I spoke in front of the whole class (if ESL doesn't count) was in 10th grade, when I had to do a presentation for English. My voice was shaking, and I CRIED after the presentation. It was so bad. And then in 11th grade, I had to do a soliloquy, and even though I memorized the entire speech, I still forgot halfway through and stood there in silence for an entire minute. Everyone just stared at me. I have so many stories like this that I can tell you, but I just want to let you know you're not the only one going through things like this. Trust me, everything will be fine one day, and you will even be glad that you have been through experiences like this. Please don't be discouraged or ashamed of yourself. You are doing just fine!
If you speak only Spanish, do you think in Spanish?
On first thought it may seem your question is a little silly, BUT actually it is a very interesting and profound question that has vexed many language researchers for years.Some theorists maintain that language is a requisite for thought, that is to say that without language humans would have never evolved higher order thinking, their theory is called “lingualism.”However, Chomsky and other scientists posit that language is only one of several cognitive traits or cognitive systems and that thought indeed has no language per se, but rather is manifested through language only partially (as many others have pointed out, when you are fluent in several languages you learn that some thoughts, feelings and emotions are better expressed in one language or another, whereas there are certain ones that are very difficult to be expressed in any language).Being bilingual myself, when I read Chomsky a light-bulb lit in my head, and I knew I wasn´t crazy believing that “behind” the internal dialogue in which one one normally carries thinking activities, there is another stream of consciousness who thinks without words or perhaps there is another, lower-level language of the mind that is translated, parsed through higher-level languages as part of the process of human expression (lower and higher level in the sense of being closer to the innerkern of the brain or further away from it).I dream in Spanish or English, but I truly believe I think in neither.It´s late and I have to take an early flight tomorrow… but I suggest you lookup Noam Chomsky and his ideas, you may be surprised.