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[your_own_path]

I had been wanting to take Spanish lessons for some time - partially for work but mostly for myself (I love traveling and I've been wanting to travel more in South America). So, I'm enrolled in this class that takes place twice a week. It means even less IM time and frankly computer time but I'm loving it so far. The class is really small which

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[kinseymill]

Oh spanish language is cool. :) Then you will be able to understand a bit of italian too. Viggo says that spanish is similar to the italian. *g*

[your_own_path]

I hope so on the Italian front. I work with people in Italy so it would be nice to think it might transfer (even a tiny bit). Definitely the words are pronounced differently but spelled almost the same.

I really like how Spanish flows. It's rather amazing to only have taken a few classes and already being able to pick up on commonly used verbs, etc. Plus, we have bi-lingual signs almost everywhere here in NYC.

My nephew is doing a student exchange in Spain the next two months so I am very jealous.

[tiinuli101]

Have you lived anywhere outside the USA as a child? I'm from Finland and have lived in England the States and South Africa. I find accents really difficult to immitate and am really not sure what accent or pronunciation style I have. People here in Finland say I sound American, but do I sound Chicagoan (where we lived) I know not. I still think I pronounce Finnish words like a foreigner, but have been told by people that they don't hear it.

My worst mispronunciation memory is from high school:D Not worst, because it was embarrassing, just because everyone else thought it was. I hate reading outloud in a class and I had to read a text in French and had no idea really what I was reading. The word souffle came up. It means breath or breathe in or some such nonsense, but I pronounced it as soufflé (the food thingy). For some reason everyone thought it was hilarious and I had to listen to jokes about it the whole school year. To this day I have no idea why it was so funny. [/random story of the day]

[your_own_path]

That's a great example! And yes, I actually lived in Germany as a kid and took German in high school (which is yet another conflict as I keep hearing the German version in my head).

Most people assume I'm from mid-central US - only in phone calls does my 'twang' come out. And of course I still use "ya'll" a lot.

And I absolutely am the worst at attempting French words. I really have no idea how the vowels sound at all.