why are all these left-wing kiddie shows trying to teach my one-year old songs in Espanol?

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Sesame Street, Dora the Explorer, Raffi!!!
What is this crap?!?
If you want to teach kids a useful second language, how bout frickin Chinese man!!!

― yoko0no, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

coma mi asno, usted burbuja muda de la esperma

― and what, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

you should check out <i>sagwa</i>

― pretzel walrus, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

whoops i'm ghost rider today

― pretzel walrus, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZcRDSruNI

― deej, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

"frickin"

― Mr. Que, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

His Spanish hurts my ears and I don't even know Spanish.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 6 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

all you need to know: la esperma

― lfam, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb7eLgaddI4

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 6 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

mmm, because he'll need to know it?

― circa1916, Friday, 6 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

Pero.... ?Por que no?

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 6 April 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

The answer is that Ted Turner and Hugo Chavez are dating now.

They are translating ever more classic films into Spanish.

Soon many Bolivians will have seen your favorite movies, making you inherently less cool.

Eventually you will physically die of embarrassment, which is totally possible (per Dr. Angela Chase, M.S/C.L).

Then other Americans will laugh and drive off toward the comfort of their Venezuelan-oil-heated homes, wishing one another "howdy dias."

― nabisco, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know how one could be "less cool" when one is already "a complete fucking douchebag".

― dan m, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

I don't disagree that your son will eventually need to know Chinese. Once they stop loaning us money and letting us pay in the dollar, we'll all basically need to know Chinese. Before that, he'll need to know Spanish.

― filthy dylan, Friday, 6 April 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

I WILL NOT LEARN CHINESE.

i want to learn spanish. i can read/speak french almost fluently, and understand TV-show spanish... but i wouldn't make it on a street.

― the table is the table, Friday, 6 April 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

i'm glad someone else posted the maraka video on this thread so now i don't have to

― impudent harlot, Saturday, 7 April 2007 01:02 (eighteen years ago)

Is Chinese really all that useful? There are lots of speakers, sure, but unlike Spanish they're mostly in one part of the world and Chinese culture isn't nearly as common in the western world as Hispanic. Unless you plan on going to China a lot it doesn't seem as useful. And Chinese isn't a single language, even Mandarin and Cantonese aren't single languages. If you just learnt one Mandarin/Cantonese language, even one of the most common ones, most of the billion+ Chinese speakers still wouldn't understand you. You'd have to learn several Chinese languages to be understood by as many people as you would be if you just learnt Spanish.

― V, Saturday, 7 April 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

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