I really need to buckle down and do that.

In all the successful couples I know in which the two people speak different languages making an effort to learn the other’s language is crucial.

Which is crazy, because Spanish is a beautiful language that I wish I could speak. One of my best friends is from Uruguay, and I love listening to her speak Spanish. All I remember from middle and high school is how to say, “Where is the library?”

The fortunate thing about being 8 was that I wasn’t too concerned with perfection, as long as my message got communicated. As a result, I got in a lot of practice. It was similar to how little kids use telegraphic speech such as ‘more splash’ or ‘daddy sing.’ I’ve often speculated that the best way to get adults to…

German is an insane language, but everyone sounds so sweet saying “Tschüss!” at the end of the call.

That sucks butts about Pinkham writing an entire stupid article about hating the sound of Spanish. I speak Spanish at work, half the time it’s for work stuff. But sometimes I’m just chatting with my coworkers. …

My Grandmother was blown away that Liberace was gay. She couldn’t believe it.

Whaaaat?! Who even thinks Spanish is ugly sounding? That’s crazy! It’s not German, for chrissakes! (It’s another one I don’t understand tho because my Oma speaks German and she sounds cute as heck when she does it!)

If they’re still alive, the 7 people that were surprised when Ricky Martin came out are SHOCKED by this. Shocked.

Yeah you said it well when you mentioned “the unique burdens gay people continue to face” because the older us gays are, the further back our sense of “it’s not safe to come out” is, the harder to come out it is. I didn’t come out until I was 35. There’s a lot of burden of mental health on older gays. Even when you’re…

I mean, if you’re an adult and you don’t have the structure for it (say you’re an English speaker and it’s Mandarin or Arabic or another language that’s similarly structurally different) then it could be quite hard even with immersion. You might learn some household vocabulary, but unless you actually sat down and…

To British ears Spanish sounds wonderful, all romance and vivid colour but then “classless” wouldn’t be an insult in the UK, more a compliment suggesting the person could move easily between all social classes.

THIS. I am deaf, I cannot hear anything at all, and I have picked up Spanish from reading many posts and memes written in Spanish and conversing in basic Spanish with people online. I cannot hear Spanish and cannot learn Spanish from listening to people because I have no hearing! If I am profoundly deaf and I can…

Es verdaderamente molesto cuando una persona habla en otro idioma.

Same. At least my dog won’t talk shit about me and call me classless because of that one time I talked to her in Spanish while doing my Spanish homework.

Some background on Nick Loeb from IMDB:

I know a couple who met in America. She’s Colombian, he’s German. They both speak English fluently. They recently moved back to Germany and she’s in the process of learning German as well. What I’m trying to say is Nick Loeb is a lazy turd and asshole of a partner. I hope Sofia is having all the amazing sex with Joe.

Monolinguists so fragile

My wife called me an asslesscay untcay for speaking in pig latin.

What a psycho.