<div dir="ltr"><div>I remember being at the Missionary Training Center for the LDS Church in Provo, Utah, and discussing with the other trainees, about what languages they were learning, and which were the most challenging. Korean seemed to top the list, due to pronunciation and tonal inflections. I have a pilot friend who spent two years as a church volunteer in Korea, and he told me that new missionaries could quite easily accidentally say something very embarrassing, to the delight of the Korean church members. Spike, if you want your son to *really* be proficient in a language, have him convert! LOL<br>
<br><br>Spike wrote:<br>If that isn't what he said, it sure sounded like that. Spanish is really<br>
good for sounding sexy. My fear is that if my son learns Spanish and goes<br>
around the high school making comments like that one, he will spend his high<br>
school years copulating rather than studying.<br>>><br><br><br></div>A goodhearted nerd having a Don Juan for a son! The horrors!!! I can just imagine you tearing through his room, with your wife chasing after you, demanding to know if you are looking for drugs or porn, "No, Shelly!" "I am looking for RosettaStone Spanish language learning dvd's or software!" ; ) And when I hear your son is headed to community college on a full scholarship, I will think, "poor Spike, he failed, and so because of his boy's relatively low 3.5 gpa, due to never studying, and also from getting several girl's pregnant (the babies adopted by MIT alumni, who could not have children of their own), the kid has ruined his future!" He will go on to only become a Silicon Valley billionaire in the single digits, but oh, so much lost potential, due to chasing skirts! lol <br>
<div><br><br></div><div>You will go to your grave/dewar thinking about what could have been, if only you could have kept him away from the carnal temptations, which come from learning the accursed language of seducers, Spanish!<br>
</div><div><br><br></div><div>It just occurred to me, I should start studying Spanish...<br></div><div><br><br></div><div>John ; )<br><br><br></div><div>P.S. In Mormon singles circles, guys who speak Spanish are a dime a dozen, due to the missionary program, but if a man can speak French, the women just melt... All my pals who served French missions did very well when it came to finding a very "easy on the eyes" wife. Spike, add French to your list of contraband languages, which your son must not learn! lol<br>
<br><br></div><div>But I will say this, if an alpha male gringo in a Mormon singles group (and these are big groups) speaks Spanish, and there is a very beautiful/wonderful Mexican/Latin-American gal there, they do tend to gravitate to each other. And this sort of thing does create some controversy among parents (and even peers), when they want their children to marry within their culture/race. But even church leaders have to concede that they cannot stop young people from dating and marrying whom they choose, well, unless they are romantically pursuing non-members, which then results in a top notch guilt trip! lol<br>
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