Spanish lessons on a gambling forum?

Quote: pacomartin

Now there are over a million Spanish speaking citizens of New Jersey. What happened to make you bitter?

That's kinda my point.

The class was arbitrarily divided. Half got Spanish, half got French. I was in the French group and tried everything to get switched. When the hell will I find French useful? If I visit Quebec?

Quote: DJTeddyBear

When the hell will I find French useful? If I visit Quebec?

I can remember maybe half a dozen words from when I "studied" French. On my only trip ever to Quebec, most of the people I encountered were quite fluent in English and didn't seem particularly annoyed about an American being monolingual. There was some communication problem with a waiter in Quebec City, and an amusing incident at a McDonald's along the highway: the teenage girl at the register seemed to have very limited English. I tried to make it simple, selected one of their combo meals from the menu, and ordered number "huit". She was still trying to figure out my English and apparently thought I ordered something on "wheat", but we finally got it straight. :-)

Quote: roll8imUP

What is happening when there are thousands more hits on a thread about a Spanish word of the day on a forum about gaming?
Should I go to a Spanish forum to view gambling topics????

It is a Las Vegas forum. If you want to spend a lot of time in Las Vegas, you can deepen your experience by speaking Spanish. Made perfect sense to me. Awful lot of Spanish-speakers in Las Vegas, you know. :)

Quote: heather

It is a Las Vegas forum. If you want to spend a lot of time in Las Vegas, you can deepen your experience by speaking Spanish. Made perfect sense to me. Awful lot of Spanish-speakers in Las Vegas, you know. :)

I hear a lot among the crews refilling the buffets. I've also noticed Spanish signage here and there, most notably on buses (usually well done, too). And the last shuttel driver tried to engage me about a Chile-Mexico soccer match. I considered saying in English I didn't understand him, but I wound up saying "Ni sabía que jugaban hoy." Really, just because you're taking Mexicana you're Mexican? Anyway, he was so eager I wished I could say something more; but in truth I didn't know such a match was on.

Quote: heather

It is a Las Vegas forum. If you want to spend a lot of time in Las Vegas, you can deepen your experience by speaking Spanish. Made perfect sense to me. Awful lot of Spanish-speakers in Las Vegas, you know. :)

Clark County is 29.1% latino as of the 2010 census.

A border crossing card (BCC) is issued by the US State Department to only Mexican citizens who have a demonstrated a compelling reason to return to their homeland. At this point, I believe almost 10 million have been issued. Geographically they must remain within 25 miles of the border (75 miles within Arizona to permit travel to Tucson). Prior to August 13, 2004 the visitation had to be 72 hours or less, but President Bush extended the time limit to 30 days.


When the time limit was extended the Department of Homeland and Security estimated that between 200,000 and 400,000 BCC holders will utilize the expanded time period to remain in the United States for longer than the current 72 hours limit. Additionally, this rule would likely motivate more
Mexican nationals without BCC’s to obtain BCCs in order to take advantage of the extended time-limit. These factors will facilitate commerce along the U.S. border and increase the demand by BCC holders for goods and services provided by border communities in the United States. As more Mexican nationals take
advantage of the extended time-limit and remain in the United States for a longer period of time, the border communities in the United States will
also benefit from a greater demand for goods and services provided by those communities.

President Bush extended the time limits as a reward for Mexican citizens who traveled to the US for legitimate commerce and recreation, and as political balance against the renewed restrictions on illegal immigration.

Although the BCC restricts travel to the "border region", I believe that holders of these cards are much more likely to receive visas to travel further inland.

The US government should consider these 10 million BCC holders as potential visitors to Las Vegas. It would help if the authorization extended to 7 day visits to inland locations.

Quote: pacomartin

Clark County is 29.1% latino as of the 2010 census.

Hell, even the name of the city's in Spanish. Some very very good Mexican restaurants, too, as well as Mexican-Chinese.