PenquistaDeCorazon wrote:bdahunter wrote:It also begs the question 'Why is that everybody in Chile listens to golden olde songs in English but can't seem to speak a lick of the language they are listening to on the radio?" I noticed this as well from the Evangelical Church Chior next door to the hotel we are staying at, they sing all their hymns in English - what's with that??(I should also note that they are terribly off key as well as mangling the lyrics)
Tis passing strange,
BDA
Hey BDA as a fellow Canuck I like ya
But I gotta say.... My we do need to get over ourselves....lol
It is a Spanish speaking country. Colonialized by the Spanish and not the English.
Why would Chileans know how to speak English in large percentages? The propensity for singing along in really broken English is just a cheesy aspect of Chilean mentality.
But the commentary above just in jest. Though the sentiment expresses my frustration with a Chilean mentality that says that if it is in English it must be good. That is what allows bands like Air Supply to play Vi~na 20 years after they stopped being popular in North America.
A bit of advice, don't ever learn Spanish cause if you do not only will you have to endure the awful karaoke singing. They will ask you to translate every cheesy love song that comes on the radio.
Cheers mate.
Well I'm off to Ecuador to polish up my spanish language skills, didn't want to do this in Chile because of all the dropped consonants and terrible grammar. I have to think that if I listened to Mariachi songs all day everyday that I would pic up a few spanish words and phrases eventually, admittedly they would be sad words and phrases full of lost love and tragic outcomes but still I think I would manage to garner a few bits of spanish by osmosis. This is what comes of using one's head for more than a hatrack.
Not all blasts from the past are fun. 
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