Does knowing english and spanish good?
It is an advantage to speak two languages regardless of what languages they are but with English and Spanish you would know the two most important languages of the world. French and Chinese are wonderful but English and Spanish are the two that are used the most in the Western Hemisphere and worldwide in the case of English.
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.
I don't Know English. Can I learn Spanish?
Of course you can however it would be much easier had you known English since knowing the tenses in English helps a lot to relate the tense system in Spanish although the number of tenses used in Spanish are more than those of used in English.But still you can learn and you can start from the scratch and follow the route that one takes to learn a new language. Knowing English is not a necessity to learn Spanish or any other language. As long as you're able to understand the rules of the language, learn the vocabulary and put your thoughts together using the words and grammar rules you learnt it's perfectly fine to learn Spanish and attain a certain level.All the best!
In spanish sounds like MAY hore what does it mean in english?
Mejor - better Claro que si ! --> Of course!, definitely! , absolutely! sure! -
Since when does "Bilingual" mean English/Spanish?
It bothers me to no end when I see job postings that state must be bilingual. As far as I know, bilingual encompasses any two languages. If you require Spanish, then say so. Don't beat around the bush. Sometimes, when I see a job posting, such s "Bilingual sales clerk need" I'll go in and apply. They look at my pale complexion and ask how good my Spanish is. I'll then play dumb and say I thought you were looking for bilingual. I speak two languages, English and Dutch. Or I'll go into a temp agency that has a sign posted outside stating "Bilingual secretary needed". I'll go in, talk to the person there, and state that I'm actually tri lingual, English, Dutch and Afrikaans. They get all bent out of shape and say they meant Spanish needed. I then calmly, but firmly, that that is NOT the definition of "bilingual". Then they get all flustered at being caught in their PC flimflamery.
I already know English and Spanish, so, Which language should I learn? Italian, French or German?
I think it depends on what your purpose is in learning another language. Full disclosure: I taught French for nearly 45 years before retiring, so naturally I'm a little biased towards French. Any of the three, however, is worth learning; it just depends on what you want to do with the language. They are all good for travel in the countries in which they are spoken natively, but French is the most widely spoken outside the country it's named after: it's useful in Belgium and Switzerland, where there are many native speakers of French, but also in other European countries, where it is widely taught in schools. It is also widely used in Africa and the Middle East. French competes with Spanish, which you already know, for being the second-most widely spoken language after English in the world.
Why don’t Spanish people like to speak English?
Because people don't like to be put in uncomfortable positions.The Spaniards have a low English proficiency level when comparing to most European countries (the same goes for Italy and France).One common thing in those three countries is that the TV is dubbed which means that they are less exposed to the English language, while in the Netherlands and Scandinavia everything is subtitled.One could argue that English is hard to learn for Romance language speakers or that just because a lot of people speak their native language they don't need to learn English but that doesn't make much sense because Portugal is rated with “high proficiency” and Portuguese is a Romance language with 200+ million speakers, but the TV is subtitled and so people are exposed to English.So in the end I think that a lot of people in Spain don't feel comfortable speaking English and so they will insist in speaking their own language, especially if they are in their own country.
What do these Spanish sentences mean in English?
Más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer. It means that is better keep something (or someone) that you know well but is bad, rather than try something (or someone) that maybe is better but you don't know for sure. Es mejor vestir santos que desvestir borrachos. When a woman is single and it doesn't seam that she is not going to get married ever they say "se va a quedar para vestir santos". (she is going to stay to dress saints), so your sentence means that it is better to be single that to be married to a bad husband.