MCPS Spanish - Vosotros

[Anonymous]

Is my kid yanking my chain here? She’s taking Spanish and they are conjugating verbs. She told me that they are not required to learn Vosotros.

What’s the story here? I know we were required to learn it when I took a language in school. Is this truly an MCPS thing or is our teacher just being lazy?

[Anonymous]

I don't know, but it's necessary to learn vosotros if she wants to actually use her Spanish, so... why don't you make her learn it.

[Anonymous]

They've never done vosotros, and don't need to. It's not widely used, even in Spain, and the only people I ever hear use it are white people who want to sound like worldly tourists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know, but it's necessary to learn vosotros if she wants to actually use her Spanish, so... why don't you make her learn it.

No it is not.

-Native Spanish speaker

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know, but it's necessary to learn vosotros if she wants to actually use her Spanish, so... why don't you make her learn it.

Not really. It's necessary to learn vosotros if you want to actually use your Spanish in Spain - but it's not hard to learn if that happens

Nonetheless, I agree: OP, if you feel strongly that your child should learn vosotros, then make her learn it.

[Anonymous]

Ridiculous to skip it though. Not that hard to simply add it to curriculum. It’s not like they’re making them say BarTHElona. By the way the TH sound in Spain is awesome!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know, but it's necessary to learn vosotros if she wants to actually use her Spanish, so... why don't you make her learn it.

Not really. It's necessary to learn vosotros if you want to actually use your Spanish in Spain - but it's not hard to learn if that happens

Nonetheless, I agree: OP, if you feel strongly that your child should learn vosotros, then make her learn it.

No, in Spain, they mostly say ustedes. Using vosotros will make you stand out as a non-native speaker. An intelligent, well-studied non-native speaker, but it's not necessary to learn in order to speak and understand fluent Spanish when in Spain

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know, but it's necessary to learn vosotros if she wants to actually use her Spanish, so... why don't you make her learn it.

Not really. It's necessary to learn vosotros if you want to actually use your Spanish in Spain - but it's not hard to learn if that happens

Nonetheless, I agree: OP, if you feel strongly that your child should learn vosotros, then make her learn it.

No, in Spain, they mostly say ustedes. Using vosotros will make you stand out as a non-native speaker. An intelligent, well-studied non-native speaker, but it's not necessary to learn in order to speak and understand fluent Spanish when in Spain

OK, then it isn't even necessary to learn vosotros if you want to actually use your Spanish in Spain. So basically, it isn't necessary to learn it at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They've never done vosotros, and don't need to. It's not widely used, even in Spain, and the only people I ever hear use it are white people who want to sound like worldly tourists.

In Spain it is standard and widely used.

~Spaniard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know, but it's necessary to learn vosotros if she wants to actually use her Spanish, so... why don't you make her learn it.

Not really. It's necessary to learn vosotros if you want to actually use your Spanish in Spain - but it's not hard to learn if that happens

Nonetheless, I agree: OP, if you feel strongly that your child should learn vosotros, then make her learn it.

No, in Spain, they mostly say ustedes. Using vosotros will make you stand out as a non-native speaker. An intelligent, well-studied non-native speaker, but it's not necessary to learn in order to speak and understand fluent Spanish when in Spain

What? No. Certainly not among friends and family, unless you are in the Canary Islands.

~Spaniard

[Anonymous]

I was a Spanish major in college (graduated in the mid-90s) and never learned vosotros well. In my ten years of Spanish instruction, only one teacher ever used it, and she was from a country where they used it.

[Anonymous]

I took it 5 years in the 80's and we skipped vosotros. Was totally surprised for my daughter to start learning it with Spanish 1 in fcps this year. I also took it in college after that and didn't learn vosotros.

[Anonymous]

I did a study abroad program in Spain when I was in college. I quickly picked it up. Wasn’t an issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't know, but it's necessary to learn vosotros if she wants to actually use her Spanish, so... why don't you make her learn it.

No it is not.

-Native Spanish speaker

Lordy, another vulgarian.

[Anonymous]

When I was learning Spanish in school decades ago, our teachers skipped having us conjugate vosotros and said people don’t really need it.

Why would your child make this up?