Immerse yourself in Spanish

September 18, 2008 By Noah Matthews

I've just returned from my 90-minute commute on the parking lot known as the 405 Freeway. If traffic wasn't exactly flying, time was and instead of hearing about how bad traffic was on my car radio, I was learning a language we're all going to have to learn if demographic experts are right. Even now, pretty much everything (excluding this column) is in both English and Spanish. So, as I do every year about this time, I'm brushing up on my Spanish.



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  • Glis - Sep 18, 2008
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    I've just been infomercialed...

    but wait... there's more! a-holes...
  • jplur - Sep 18, 2008
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    This is the worst article I have ever seen on this site.
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  • Roj - Sep 18, 2008
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    You people suffer from the same critical oversight.

    Men learn Spanish best by asking young Latin woman to teach them; not by watching lips move, while they stroke themselves, on a computer screen.
  • KB6 - Sep 18, 2008
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    Thanks for the article, Billy Mays.
  • barkster - Sep 18, 2008
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    What the H&##!

    He needed a CD to learn Spanish while stuck on the 405?!

    ALL HE NEEDED TO DO WAS ROLL DOWN HIS FREAKIN' WINDOW!
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    this is a scientific news portal, not a platform for publishing advertising
  • Bob_Kob - Sep 19, 2008
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    Bullshit im going to learn Spanish. English is the language of kings. English of GTFO.

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