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[drainbamage]

Me neither. I've taken more spanish classes than I care to admit to, and still sound like a retard when trying to speak it.

I've enough of a hard time with my native tongue as it is.

Same here. 4 years of HS Spanish and I feel like I can read it passably, but put me with a native speaker, and they may as well be speaking Mandarin. Too fast for me to keep up.

 

[blizzard]

LOL @blizzard

We (I) named our younger daughter Caoimhe

(Quee-vah/veh)

Caoi=Quee

mh=v

See, I looked it up and still didn't get it right (quee vs kee).

 

[Gavin C]

See, I looked it up and still didn't get it right (quee vs kee).

No worries blizz. Close enough. Poor thing. I've given her a lifetime of hassles (or till she changes it herself).

It's a relatively common name back home.

 

[ChefRex]

Hi.

 

[blizzard]

No worries blizz. Close enough. Poor thing. I've given her a lifetime of hassles (or till she changes it herself).



It's a relatively common name back home.

I'm assuming this is an elaborate plan to move back to Ireland and retire right about the time your kids are dying for someone to spell their names right.

 

[hunter_le five]

Same here. 4 years of HS Spanish and I feel like I can read it passably, but put me with a native speaker, and they may as well be speaking Mandarin. Too fast for me to keep up.

Jr High: Spanish I
9th Grade: Spanish I again
10th Grade: Spanish II
11th Grade: Spanish III
Sophomore year in college: Spanish I again

I am so good at Spanish I. Go ahead, ask me how to order a .

 

[Gavin C]

I'm assuming this is an elaborate plan to move back to Ireland and retire right about the time your kids are dying for someone to spell their names right.

Maybe I'm just cruel.

 

[Qhrumphf]

I'm assuming this is an elaborate plan to move back to Ireland and retire right about the time your kids are dying for someone to spell their names right.

Sheer brilliance.

Or child abuse.

I'm not sure which.

 

[mhurst111]

I don't even try names after learning how Featheringstonehaugh is pronounced. I just stick with a 'Hey you' until someone tells me how to pronounce their name and even then they will likely still get a 'hey you'.

 

[hunter_le five]

I am so good at Spanish I. Go ahead, ask me how to order a .

"I would like eight tacos please."

"¿Que?"

"I said I - WOULD - LIKE - EIGHT - TACOS - PLEASE."

"¿Que?"

"Ugh, Jesus, hold on...." *opens up Google Translate* "NECESSITO - LOS - TACOS - PARA - VIVIR - SEÑOR."


If I ever have kids, they are starting foreign language lessons early.

 

[m00ps]

FWIW, I wouldnt wish my name on any kid. Not too complicated but its just a damn phonetic nightmare to spell, especially over the phone, with the "see" "enn" "vee" etc sounds. Plus with my first name having the weird Y spelling. At work, when I get routed to the IT helpdesk in India, I usually just block out half my day.

All the time, my life just a constant stream of:
Canoban
Canovan
Conovan
Caravan
Caneban
Camiban
Banavan
Banovan
Camavan
Camavam
Canapan

but most commonly:
Cavanaugh, these people are the bane of my existence. I will punch anyone that introduces themselves as such right in their commonplace-last-name face. I've had teachers as a kid that still called me cavanaugh after an entire school year of grading my papers.

 

[m00ps]

"I would like eight tacos please."

"¿Que?"

"I said I - WOULD - LIKE - EIGHT - TACOS - PLEASE."

"¿Que?"

"Ugh, Jesus, hold on...." *opens up Google Translate* "NECESSITO - LOS - TACOS - PARA - VIVIR - SEÑOR."


If I ever have kids, they are starting foreign language lessons early.

Im surprised you dont just have little taco cards in your wallet. Hold up however many cards as you want tacos along with some money. Easy peasy

 

[blizzard]

"I would like eight tacos please."

"¿Que?"

"I said I - WOULD - LIKE - EIGHT - TACOS - PLEASE."

"¿Que?"

"Ugh, Jesus, hold on...." *opens up Google Translate* "NECESSITO - LOS - TACOS - PARA - VIVIR - SEÑOR."


If I ever have kids, they are starting foreign language lessons early.

I would at least expect you to know all the taco flavors at this point.

 

[drainbamage]

"I would like eight tacos please."

"¿Que?"

"I said I - WOULD - LIKE - EIGHT - TACOS - PLEASE."

"¿Que?"

"Ugh, Jesus, hold on...." *opens up Google Translate* "NECESSITO - LOS - TACOS - PARA - VIVIR - SEÑOR."


If I ever have kids, they are starting foreign language lessons early.

Oops, missed my cue.

My one cousin's kids started learning Spanish in kindergarten. Ok, it's just counting and colors and stuff, but really it makes sense to start them then when their brains are still little sponges for language skills.

My biggest problem is that the aren't that many Hispanics in my area, so I had no reason to keep practicing it except if I was at a restaurant, or the couple times I visited somewhere like Cozumel on vacation.

 

[hunter_le five]

Lafleur
Lefleur
Laflour
Leflour
Laflower
Leflower
Laforge
Laforche

I am more likely to be called one of these names by a stranger than my actual name. It's uncanny. Doesn't matter if they're reading it out loud, or typing it. A vendor whom I've worked with regularly for five years (and even had beers with a few times) recently emailed me as Mr. LeFlour

It's worse for my brother Ross. He routinely gets addressed as Rose LaFlower, and assumed to be female.

 

[m00ps]

hunter LOFLer

 

[Zekk]

My name is nice and easy. Every once in a while they change the E to a U in my last name. Usually when a Hispanic person is spelling it. If they were born and raised in Mexico they usually just call me Andres which is OK by me.

 

[Gavin C]

Lafleur
Lefleur
Laflour
Leflour
Laflower
Leflower
Laforge
Laforche

I am more likely to be called one of these names by a stranger than my actual name. It's uncanny. Doesn't matter if they're reading it out loud, or typing it. A vendor whom I've worked with regularly for five years (and even had beers with a few times) recently emailed me as Mr. LeFlour

It's worse for my brother Ross. He routinely gets addressed as Rose LaFlower, and assumed to be female.

Mr. Underscore

What's so challenging there? Arrogantsce!

 

[Qhrumphf]

I'm lucky that my name is easy to figure out. Well except for my first name that I never use outside of work and then everyone spells it wrong.

 

[ThirstyPawsHB]

FWIW, I wouldnt wish my name on any kid. Not too complicated but its just a damn phonetic nightmare to spell, especially over the phone, with the "see" "enn" "vee" etc sounds. Plus with my first name having the weird Y spelling. At work, when I get routed to the IT helpdesk in India, I usually just block out half my day.

All the time, my life just a constant stream of:
Canoban
Canovan
Conovan
Caravan
Caneban
Camiban
Banavan
Banovan
Camavan
Camavam
Canapan

but most commonly:
Cavanaugh, these people are the bane of my existence. I will punch anyone that introduces themselves as such right in their commonplace-last-name face. I've had teachers as a kid that still called me cavanaugh after an entire school year of grading my papers.

Cannabis??

 

[drainbamage]

It's worse for my brother Ross. He routinely gets addressed as Rose LaFlower, and assumed to be female.

Ha, I had an experience like that a while back. I was communicating via email with a person at our headquarters named Jadie. I had been working under the assumption that it was a woman (I used to work with a woman named Jade, so it seemed like not much of a stretch), until I got into a meeting and mentioned something about "Jadie said she couldn't make it" and one of "her" coworkers gave me a look and said "Jadie is *a man*." Heh, whoops.

 

[TobyG]

My understanding was that the Celts and the Gauls were different. Rome conquered the Gauls. They never truly conquered the Celts. However, the Saxons descended from the Gauls DID conquer the Celts.

http://www.britannica.com/place/Gaul-ancient-region-Europe

 

[Qhrumphf]

http://www.britannica.com/place/Gaul-ancient-region-Europe

Huh. I stand corrected. I thought the Gauls were of Germanic origin.

Cheers!

 

[m00ps]

Huh. I stand corrected. I thought the Gauls were of Germanic origin.

Cheers!

I believe those were the moors actually

 

[hunter_le five]

*m00rs

 

[m00ps]

*m00rs

I actually had to resist the urge to type that. Maybe I should just go to bed

 

[Qhrumphf]

http://www.britannica.com/place/Gaul-ancient-region-Europe

D'oh.

Gaul.

Gaelic.

Stupid me. You know, I probably did know that originally. But what are you gonna do.

Would you believe it wasn't until my mid 20's that I realized a certain pejorative term for Native Americans was just a variation of "Indian"? I knew both terms, but never made the connection.

 

[Qhrumphf]

I believe those were the moors actually

 

[BrewinBromanite]

Jr High: Spanish I

9th Grade: Spanish I again

10th Grade: Spanish II

11th Grade: Spanish III

Sophomore year in college: Spanish I again



I am so good at Spanish I. Go ahead, ask me how to order a .

I literally had this same conversation with a Polish colleague in town this evening (as he was explaining how he's fluent in 3 languages). First time he's been in the states, and speaks better English than a lot of people I know... It's embarrassing how much Spanish I've had (almost identical as you described), and am only good at ordering at Taco Bueno. Well, not really embarrassing when I speak perfect party taco and burrito! [emoji16]

 

[BrewinBromanite]

This, and all the foreign language stuff, makes me sleepy. G'night. View attachment ImageUploadedByHome Brew1462247592.096364.jpg