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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:51 pm Post subject: Spanish culture? |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19756 Location: En España
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I am wondering if there are any spanish members (or anyone who speaks spanish) that could give me a quick generalisation on the following questions? - What is the tendency with 'foreign' language cinema, is it dubbed or subbed for cinema runs?
- What are some great spanish horror films? I loved Mucha Sangre, Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage... can you name some more for me?
- How prominant is English as a second language, particularly in the Malaga area?
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Slayer
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7872
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I speak a little Spanish, but I'm not.
I can only answer question 2: The Devil's Backbone and Cannibal Man come to mind.
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19756 Location: En España
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How / Where did you learn your spanish? If self-taught, any advice?
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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The Devil, Probably Joined: Fri Jan 06, 2006 1:58 pm Posts: 1940 Location: Just Follow The Stench
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Slayer
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Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:13 pm Posts: 7872
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spudthedestroyer wrote: | How / Where did you learn your spanish? If self-taught, any advice? |
I needed Spanish for my studies of ancient American archaeology: everybody in South America speaks Spanish, except for a few who speak Portuguese So with English I wouldn't have come very far. I first attended a Spanish course at the univeristy, but it was so boring, that we all quit as a group. Next we got offered a class for learning to read Spanish, and only speak a little. I was the only one from my class that passed the exam, and I did so with a very meager score. After a few months I went off to Peru, and I was pretty insecure about my Spanish, but after a few weeks it ran like a well oiled machine. Going to a country where everyone speaks only one language is the best way to learn it. My luck is that I have a sense for linguistics, I don't know how to explain properly, but it means it is easy for me to learn a new language. I already had learned English, French, German, Latin and Greek in secondary school and with those languages as a base it is pretty easy to learn Spanish. I'm not 100% grammatically correct, but a panish guy can have conversation with me with very little problem. In a few weeks I'm off for Barcelona and we'll see how much of the Spanish is still in my head (last visit to a panish speaking country was in 2000, but until 2006 I spoke Spanish regularly with Spanish clanmembers). For recommendations I'd like to know what your background is. If English is your only language and you have never leanred to speak/read a different language, I'd start off easily, with a kids' book. In every language, words are the most important (this sounds silly, but it is not), so work on learning as many Spanish words as you can, grammar will come later. For verbs, learn ser and estar (the two versions of "to be" in Spanish) and haber ("to have") and you're off. If you have experience learning different languages it will be easy, because Spanish is a pretty easy language. If you haven't it will be very hard, I guess, although many words are like in English, with a Spanish sound to it. Beware of the classic: "I'm embarassed" is NOT: "Soy embarazado", because that means "I'm pregnant".
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optalidon
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:34 am Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Mummified In Barbed Wire Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:37 am Posts: 101 Location: Galiza (Spain)
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Hi All movies are dubbed Our english sucks, altough we study it during 8 years , average I guess in Malaga are prepared for tourism, so you will be able to find english speakers easily. I've never been in south spain and i'm not interested of doing it ( except Granada) .. I live in the north west that is quite different of the typical Spain you are thinking in. About horror movies.. one day i joined T3 chatroom and all the people there knew more spanish horror movies than me I really liked Alex de la iglesia's baby's room http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0430164/ and as you know all the 70's horror movies were made for the european market and i can see you share them all in this board and have more knowdlegde about then than we do
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Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:54 am Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sat Sep 20, 2003 9:40 pm Posts: 2523 Location: In a dark room...
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Also in the series of Spanish TV movies with 'The Baby's Room' is 'To Let', directed by Jaume Balagueró.
You could also try '¿Quién puede matar a un niño?', 'Tesis', 'Fausto 5.0' or 'La Residencia'.
There's also the as yet unreleased 'Senki' and my personal favourite, Bigas Luna's 'Angustia'.
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elanze
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Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:28 am Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Dead But Dreaming Joined: Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:51 am Posts: 261
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spudthedestroyer wrote: | I am wondering if there are any spanish members (or anyone who speaks spanish) that could give me a quick generalisation on the following questions? - What is the tendency with 'foreign' language cinema, is it dubbed or subbed for cinema runs?
- What are some great spanish horror films? I loved Mucha Sangre, Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage... can you name some more for me?
- How prominant is English as a second language, particularly in the Malaga area?
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Im spanish so i will answer you. 1.In cinemas movies are dubbed but in cities like Madrid or Barcelona there are many cinemas that only display with subtitles. Also every city has a Filmoteca where run non-dubbed films and Festivals. Malaga has fantastic cinema week. 2.I liked that recent movie http://www.3diaslapelicula.com/ or http://movies.filmax.com/rec/3.Everyone who has some level of studies know English, its second language. I think that there are also a big community of English natives in Malaga
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19756 Location: En España
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Thank you, I'm flying over tomorrow actually, but need to get a feel of the place
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Truba
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Lunatic Of Gods Creation Joined: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:40 pm Posts: 1001 Location: Bosnia
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spudthedestroyer wrote: | [*] What are some great spanish horror films? I loved Mucha Sangre, Pan's Labyrinth and The Orphanage... can you name some more for me? [/list] |
Thesis Blind dead Cabina People who own the dark Fragiles Residencia Cannibal man Nameless malenka Fausto5.0 Babys room there are a lot of co productions with italy and so on Bava & some zombie movies...
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elchupacabra
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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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The Ancient One Joined: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:31 am Posts: 3606
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I thought Fragiles was a French movie.
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 1:18 am Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19756 Location: En España
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Anyone got some recommendations on learning spanish?
Applications, auto-tapes, books, etc. Anything that is remote, which I know is a problem... I need to at least know the written word in spanish.
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johnathome
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Demon Of The Abyss Joined: Sun Oct 26, 2003 6:10 pm Posts: 1286 Location: Living in Gordon Brown's HELL
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I downed rosetta stone spanish off the NG. Have you looked at this as well? http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/Theres also this Code: | ******************************************************************************* Audio Books - Learn Spanish swear words & insults *******************************************************************************
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type.................: Music Platform.............: Windows 9x/ME/2000 Serial #.............: not required Part Size............: 1,500,000 bytes Number of Parts......: 5
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn Spanish swear words & insults
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Install Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unrar will give one MP3 file
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated with Cool NFO Creator - http://fly.to/coolbeans -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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spudthedestroyer
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Site Admin Joined: Sat Nov 02, 2002 1:35 am Posts: 19756 Location: En España
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Quote: | I downed rosetta stone spanish off the NG. |
ditto but i thought there might be other software and tips
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Xoal
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Will Tear Your Soul Apart Joined: Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:37 pm Posts: 541 Location: California
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All i know is [rec] is a great movie, and giving someone the thumbs up means "up yours"
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optalidon
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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Mummified In Barbed Wire Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:37 am Posts: 101 Location: Galiza (Spain)
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Thumbs up = "ok, well done" .. we use the middle finger for the up yours issues
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karstmobile
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:37 am Post subject: Re: Spanish culture? |
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The Devil, Probably Joined: Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:45 pm Posts: 2321 Location: The Land Of The Virgin Queen
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spudthedestroyer wrote: | Quote: | I downed rosetta stone spanish off the NG. |
ditto but i thought there might be other software and tips |
I've heard good things about Fluenz: http://www.fluenz.com/I would like to have spanish 1+2, but haven't been able to find yet.
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