I see from the LDS Temples site that one stake and eleven wards have been dissolved this month in Mexico! The only growth is in Africa! Another Stake was dissolved in Korea! The stone rolling backwards!

the hispanic ward in Salt Lake was disolved long ago along with the lamanite ward along with my ward.

I think my ward is also going that way as only 6% of the members are actually active (30 people out of 500, yeah according to the cult's records there are 500 mormons in my ward LOL).
I don't know how is it going now but last year we had an attendance of less than 30 people during more than half of the year.

Lucky Lucas, what country are you in? Sounds like most of Europe!

Argentina

So he talks 'funny'... ask any Mexican!

The funniest thing between Mexico and Argentina is that food names in one country (in Mexico:Cajeta and Concha - in Argentina: Pepa) are slang words for vagina in the other.

"Se me fue mi vagina,
se me fue otra vez
se me fue mi vagina
por falta de interes"

- -Mexican folk song popular in old folks homes

Mexican people are funny LOL.

elderolddog Wrote:
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> "Se me fue mi vagina,
> se me fue otra vez
> se me fue mi vagina
> por falta de interes"
>
> - -Mexican folk song popular in old folks homes


How sad, and yet this song was a number one hit in Mexico.

Yes, it's a sexist song but there are worse songs than this (specially reggaeton ones).

it was because the thing I knew as a "fresa" (strawberry), was called a "frutilla" in Argentina, with the pronunciation of "fru-TEE-zha."

Then I had to take a class in 20th Century Novels from an Argentinian novels (he was the sort that used his own works as textbooks, and his books were AWFUL) and it took a few weeks to understand his Spanish.

Most units outside of the U.S. have single digit activity rates.

Today six more Mexican wards dissolved and two in Australia!

Surprising that a Samoan ward was one of the wards discontinued in Australia. Here in the SF Bay Area, the ONLY growth that there has been during the last 20-30 years is the growth of the Samoan and Tongan units.

The stone will roll backwards until it it is merely a pebble.

So, while I have you Spanish speaking people here, let me ask something that I've been wondering about.
I took Spanish in High school, decades ago. Of course, we learned it really slow and could understand the teacher and each other.
The teacher told us how each Spanish speaking had their own dialect and he played samples from Mexico, South American countries, Puerto Rico, Spain, etc. I can't remember, but I think the Puerto Ricans spoke it the fastest, running their words together the most, where I couldn't tell where one word ended and started.
I remember when we had to take turns speaking, the teacher would tease me and tell me that I pronounced some words with a Spaniard"s accent.
So, if I'm wanting to take up Spanish for fun, which is the easiest dialect to learn from, being American? M I don't remember any Dpanish except for the basics
Which country speaks it the slowest, hopefully one word at a time and not a lot of contracting words?

I don't know which would be the easiest but I would advice you not to try chilean or caribbean.

I think I prefer the Spanish from Mexico City than to most other dialects because to me it was the clearest. Cuba and Puerto Rico have a very lazy way of stringing their words together and barely pronouncing some syllables. South American Spanish is cool because of the ll (zh) sound but not the easiest to decipher because they have a tendency to drop the "s" at the end of their words, at least those along the west coast.



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I learned hillbilly Spanish in Mexico City, mostly from Los Supermachos.

They don't teach "pos...", "pos este...", "pos este mira..." and "que te iba a decir..." in Spanish class, but they're the most used phrases in ordinary speech. It's what Mexicans use for "ummm" or "uh..." or "...so like..."

My all time favorite remains, "...me topé con un pader..."

The ll pronounced as sh is only for Uruguay and some parts of Argentina (me included).

From my experience it was the Cubans who speak/spoke the fastest.

At this point, I speak "puro pocho" which is American Spanish.

IMO, Chileans speak the fastest.

elderolddog Wrote:
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> From my experience it was the Cubans who
> speak/spoke the fastest.
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> At this point, I speak "puro pocho" which is
> American Spanish.


They do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't let anyone tell you differently.

You tell'em, baby!

But in all fairness, I've never, to my knowledge, spoken with a Chilean.

And besides, LuckyLucas es muy buena gente.

Thanks elderolddog and if you want to know how chilean people speak....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sta4HT2V4BM

Hey, it wasn't that they were speaking all that fast, it was how many, many vowels and consonants they were swallowing, that never saw the light of day! And yeah, it is in excess to what the Cubans do.

I can attest it's the Puerto Ricans. I've been there 20 times and even worked there....it's tough to understand them.

The Mexicans are great. "No mames, guey!" seems to be their favorite phrase these days ("No kidding with me, dude!)

Been to Cuba. They seemed OK, but most of the people I interacted with were university staff and faculty at several campuses.

Speaking of Cuban. In my second year Spanish class , we had a Cuban boy named Pablo, who was sitting in the class. The teacher was helping him with his English, which was slready good.
He was so cute. We could always tell if we mispronounced a word and actually said something completely different, like a swear word, because he would smile and try to keep from giggling . The teacher would just tell us that we said something else, but wouldn't tell us. This was back in the late 70s, so teachers were more careful back then

Were the stakes dissolved before or after the earthquake?

Is the church pulling back at times of natural disaster?

Closed before the earthquake! Not sure if even in the earthquake area! Maybe had a clean out of non attending members and found they didn't have any active like they did in Chile!

I'll probably just get stuck with whichever dryly my teacher teaches. It isn't until the Winter classes. It's just for fun, continuing Ed. I like taking classes that have no pressure. They have a lot of fun classes. When I was young, I took different languages, just for fun.
I'd like to visit Quebec one day, so then I'd probably find a teacher somewhere on line who's from Quebec, since I keep hearing they speak different than France French. I know they'll speak English to me , once I start trying to start French.
I just think it's rude to visit a country and don't learn how to at least say the basics and ask them in their language if they speak English, then speak it

And to think I took my ward here in podunk dissolving, personal!
How can they do this? Now I know.

It is the start of the morg implosion!
A black hole caving in on itself.