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Old 02-15-2007, 02:28 PM
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on the access all areas video he is in rome and cant even swear let alone talk italian.
In the same video, he's with some relatives(I guess) and he tries to speak some Italian, he basically repeates what they say. It's a pretty dirty conversation
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Not true. I've heard him lament that he is not fluent in other languages.
Really?? I just thought of it because that unfortunately is a common american thinking, and just thought that if he really wanted to he would have learned by now.
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Really?? I just thought of it because that unfortunately is a common american thinking, and just thought that if he really wanted to he would have learned by now.
It's a common American condition, not necessarily thinking...though of course we do have our idiots with that attitude. Other language classes aren't taught in our schools until High School in most districts and even then those classes are usually little more than introductory. To learn another language in school, it needs to start in elementary school and be taught over the years, advancing. Learning and maintaining a language requires daily use and we really don't get that opportunity usually. We can take German in High School, but with no real way to use it in daily life it's pretty futile. I knew Sign Language to a fair degree, but since I don't actually use it to communicate myself, I'm very rusty with it. When I did learn it I was immersed in it for a year or two at a time (differing times in my life.)

I'd love to be fluent in Spanish and I do listen to Spanish Rock sometimes.
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In the same video, he's with some relatives(I guess) and he tries to speak some Italian, he basically repeates what they say. It's a pretty dirty conversation

Not relatives--just a cab driver that Jon met and he invited Jon & company to his house.
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It's a common American condition, not necessarily thinking...though of course we do have our idiots with that attitude. Other language classes aren't taught in our schools until High School in most districts and even then those classes are usually little more than introductory. To learn another language in school, it needs to start in elementary school and be taught over the years, advancing. Learning and maintaining a language requires daily use and we really don't get that opportunity usually. We can take German in High School, but with no real way to use it in daily life it's pretty futile. I knew Sign Language to a fair degree, but since I don't actually use it to communicate myself, I'm very rusty with it. When I did learn it I was immersed in it for a year or two at a time (differing times in my life.)

I'd love to be fluent in Spanish and I do listen to Spanish Rock sometimes.

Yeah I guess I didn't think of that, here it is a nessecity to know both spanish and english if ya wanna be somebody or at the very least graduate high school. And I've been taught english ever since kindergarden so yeah, it was an unfair thought on my part sorry.

You listen to spanish rock?? You have the last record by Mana??
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