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[–]yousaythosethings 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I speak English, Spanish, French, and I am currently learning a more obscure language from an entirely different language family. Spanish seems like the most logical language I know and is the most practical. It is a simple language for mastering the basics, but there is a lot more to the grammar at the very advanced level, although I think a lot of it is only stuff you have to learn if you're an academic. French is the most romantic language I know. Women seem to love to hear me say words in French lol, although I am not very great at French. It is the opposite of Spanish in that its basics are harder to master but there are some parts of it that much simpler, especially when it comes to speaking rather than writing. But I feel like my mind is at odds with underlying "logic" framework of French. Don't get me started on counting in French. What a clusterfuck. I love French cinema, and honestly need to be watching more French movies while in quarantine.

I have traveled to and lived in countries where these languages are spoken and with the obscure language, I have traveled there and have a lot of connections to there. By the way, I'm pretty sure that my language teacher/partner is a lesbian and I think she's trying to figure out if I am too, so that's interesting. . . . But she's in a homophobic country so I'm not going to bring up the topic myself.

Let me know if any of you have recommendations for movies in Spanish and French.

[–]al-Amira 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

La belle saison, not the best movie ever made, but I enjoyed watching it, probably because I stumbled upon it. Haute tension is pretty good if you're into that kind of movies. Raw (don't remember the French title) was pretty good, if you're into those movies. Personally I enjoy most of Audrey Tautou's french movies. Les rivières pourpres is also a decent movie, not the best - not bad either.

In Spanish I'd recommend [Rec], Amores Perros was good too if I recall correctly. Sin Nombre not a Spanish movie but Spanish speaking. I found El Infierno incredibly funny (dark humour and a lot of satire), not Spanish but Spanish speaking (Mexican movie). Then there's El Orfanato which was good as well.

[–]yousaythosethings 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks! Great recommendations. Of those, I've only seen [Rec], and for anyone who's interested it's a low-budget found-footage style zombie movie that takes place in Spain. I recommend it for anyone who that genre appeals to.

[–]al-Amira 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh and one often overlooked method of learning or maintaining a language is reading at least one news article in said language per day. Granted, that was a lot easier to do before 90% of the news articles ended up behind payment walls. It might not be as fun as watching a movie, but it generally takes very little time and effort to read a shorter article.