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    Default Re: English words that conflict with your language.

    I tell them they have to add an accent to everything if there is a silent letter. Teach them selves to say their there and they're slightly different so they know which one to write.
    According to my Spanish teacher, everyone in her neighbourhood speaks a kind of Spanglish (ie. advertisements for frozen goods say "freezado" instead of "congelado").

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    Default Re: English words that conflict with your language.

    Quote Originally Posted by Azathoth View Post
    According to my Spanish teacher, everyone in her neighbourhood speaks a kind of Spanglish (ie. advertisements for frozen goods say "freezado" instead of "congelado").
    Thats very true, here in Argentina we speak Spanglish every day, mostly because of foreign terms that don't have a proper translation into Spanish; freezado, chateando are examples of every day words we use.

    There isn't any single written word in English that conflicts with my language... and there isn't any single spoken word that doesn't
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