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Spanish speakers This posts answers the question how many Spanish speakers there are in the United States.  I was curious myself about this question. All I hear on the news is about the growing Hispanic population and how I should study this language.  Actually learning it, to some level, is on my list of things [...]

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Why earn more degrees, just learn a language for more earnings power and a richer life In the States its very trendy to accumulate more degrees and initials behind your name. It is education inflation.  Our fathers need a colleage degree now we need a masters and really some extra designations beyond that. Although it [...]

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Havana Blues for learning Spanish Last night I went to ‘Havana Blues’ at the movies. I watched it in Spanish with Polish subtitles. The film was about two musicians in Havana.  A large part of the movie was music and singing in Spanish.  By the end of the movie I was able to learn a [...]

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Spanish in American films Spanish characters I was watching the film ‘Disturbia’ the other day, a pretty good film, low budget thriller.  Not only did the film start with a Spanish class scene but, they had noticeably Spanish actors as secondary characters.  I am not living in the states right now but the media, films [...]

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Love phrases One of the reasons I like to learn Love phrases in other languages is, you will use it. Guaranteed if you learn an another language you will use love phrases or at least the words associated with love phrases. Love phrases in several languages Most of the most famous love phrases can be [...]

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The easiest language to learn Easiest language English- no cases, no gender, no word agreement, arguably no grammar. The language is everywhere and can be heard, absorbed and used anywhere.  Short words, verbs change only in the third person. Native speakers are very forgiving of mistakes as so many people speak it as a second [...]

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Spanish music lyrics Find Spanish music lyrics, if you want to learn Spanish. Learn Spanish music lyrics The reason music is so effective as a way to learn is simple, it is the rhythm.  When listening to music the rhythm somehow imprints the tones and words in your memory.  You can not listen to any [...]

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Film titles in foreign language movies Living in another country has made me aware a small annoyance.   I noticed when I go to rent a DVD at the local video store, I often give people the English Title translated into Polish for example (I live in Krakow).   The movie in English will be something like [...]

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Mayan language The Mayans were the only perhaps the only indigenous peoples of the Americas that had a written language. And what it revealed was a powerful civilization marked my rituals and blood. The Language Mayan languages were written in the Maya hieroglyphic script. Some of the script were sounds and others words. The surviving [...]

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English has invaded other national languages. Trends in business and demographics is like global warming, often there is little that can be done to reverse these trends. So is the case with the English language. “English has already invaded the languages of Moliere, Cervantes and Goethe, dominating the fields of technology and business and even [...]

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