No wonder people look at me like I've just escaped from the group home when I speak Spanish <bg>
(and the position of adjectives I do remember, so if I were to say "Janet was wearing a blouse blue" at least a spanish speaker would have some idea I what I was talking about)

Still a whoooole lot closer than the word order in Turkish. ( really gets ugly when you get into relative clauses )

But your point is taken (especially since I know your Spanish is way more fluent than mine <g> )


Should have said "At least with Thai you can spit out words in pretty much the same order as English"

Funny, everyone thinks of Asian languages as difficult, but from a grammatical point of view they are easy - just the pronunciation and orthography that are killers.

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>>At least with Spanish you can spit out words in pretty much the same order as English
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>Not true!!!! (Although I wish it was) :o)
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>which is why Spanish was a pain for me. Russian, however, was much easier to learn because I didn't have to change English rules in my head (it's easier to just assume it's like a new programming syntax with everything not the same as English starting with the 33 letters :o). For me, Spanish was always just close enough but different enough to be difficult speaking.... (reading is pretty easy)
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>Examples:
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>A blouse blue Janet was wearing. --Spanish order
>Janet was wearing a blue blouse. --English order
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>I called her in the morning. Said that was not feeling well.. --Spanish (repeating the subject not necessary)
>I called her in the morning. She said that she was not feeling well.. --English (our verbs are not specific enough - we need the 2nd subject)
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>Drove me crazy !!! :o)
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>Common differences:
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>Spanish questions -- the subject almost always comes after the verb (and in most cases of regular sentences it can be omitted)
>Spanish statements -- sometimes the object can come before the subject and verb and the verb before the subject