fluent spanish

Question

if you lived in spain do you think it would matter if you spoke fluent spanish or would you get by with just saying beginner stuff like: ¡hola! gracias por favor comme est tas ¡mui bien! adios

Answer 1

It depends entirely on whether you ever want to have interesting conversations, or not. If not 'hola' and ' gracias', ' dos con leche' go along way. But life may become rather dull.

Answer 2

As someone who's still only wishing to go to Spain one day, I'm only taking a guess here - but this is my opinion, if it helps:

I think it would depend of what part of Spain you lived in. If it was a big city or a place where you find a lot of ex-pats or tourists, basic phrases might just get you by since it's more likely that someone will speak English. If it's someone a bit more out of the way or in the countryside, fluent Spanish is probably your best bet.

Answer 3

Please remember to use proper capitalization and punctuation in your posts--we have learners of English here and wouldn't want to confuse them.

If you lived in Spain, do you think it would matter if you spoke fluent Spanish or would you get by with just saying beginner stuff, like: ¡Hola! Gracias. Por favor. ¿Cómo estás? ¡Muy bien! Adios?