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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv

Spanish Spanish sounds very nice to me (I won't say beautiful). I love hearing it compared to new world Spanish. On this side of the world, they drop the "vosotros" part of verb conjugation. One time in Spain when I was there traveling with a couple of Mexican ladies, a Spaniard pulled me aside and asked, " Why do they drop that part of the language?" The only thing I could think to say was that was the way the spoke it there. I had actually never thought of it before. My former wife spoke English, Spanish, & French fluently and could get along in German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian.

Very impressive. I wish my parents had forced me to take a language when I was younger. They really should have since we lived in Japan twice for about 2.5 years both times when I was 8-10 and again 13-15. I'd have probably been pretty fluent. Oh well.

When I was younger, I didn't want to learn any other languages, now I'd like to learn several.