some interesting tid-bits about the whole different language/culture experience:
-most movies here are dubbed in spanish, not subtitled. This is a remnent from the Franco regime when the government wanted the highest level of control over what the movies were saying.
-I now am realizing the extent of my Inner Monologue because I randomly mutter things in English, even when I'm thinking in Spanish. Or trying to at least.
-Because I don't always understand all the words in the notes or the poems, I'll be looking up the word in my dictionary and the profesora will ask me a question and I'll be momentarily stunned and not know exactly what the question is, or what my answer to it would be. Fallout of this: the profesora thinks that I don't understand the simplistically stated question because my spanish is that bad. Which it isn't.
-It keeps surprising me how language has developed. And I want to know more about it. Where did the original ideas come from? Because now there are the same ideas in multiple languages. And they didn't originate in one language, like Spanish. They came from other, older source. This isn't very well stated. I will think about the more eloquent way to say this later. Also, eloquent is quite an eloquent word. And after typing it three times, it doesn't really make sense anymore.
j
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I ran into the same movie problem when I was in Mexico, although it was more in the range of half of the movies as opposed to almost all. Although, watching "Los Quatro Fantasticos" en espanol and realizing halfway through that you were almost positive the voice of "the Thing" was the same guy who did Muzzy was hilarious.
As for the language thing, I remember learning that almost all modern day languages derive from latin or sanskrit - or a combination thereof - due to the fact that Greco/Roman and Hindu/Arabian culture spread across the entire world (read: Europe, Asia, and bits of Africa) over the course of a couple hundred years through various means like trade dominance and outright conquest.
-- David
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