World Wanderer asked:


My girlfriend and me have been together for 3 years. I moved to spain from the uk a year ago to be with her but we do not live together. I am dependant on her for many things in spain due to not speaking spanish well. We spend a lot of time together and i have smothered her and grown dependant on her.

She asked for a break and said i should go to the uk to be with my friends and family for at least 3 weeks as i am depressed as i don’t have many friends in spain. But if i didn’t want to go she would not see me if i was to stay in spain. Later though when i had booked the flights to the uk she said things had been better in the last week and she wanted to come but couldn’t because of work. She said if she did come she would stay for a bit and then return to spain for me to be on my own for a while in the uk.

I am in the uk now and miss her desperately but i dont think she misses me anywhere near as much. She has not talked to me much, I have tried not to initiate any contact but am open to her contacting me. She has told me she loves me every time she contacts me.

I feel spain is making me depressed as i have no social life of my own there and it is destroying our relationship slowly over the last year due to this. I am starting spanish lessons and joining a sports team when i return, i hope this improves the situation. My girlfriend said if i was happy again and had a social life she would move in with me but not this now. She said if my depression continues in the future she would leave me.

Should I not initiate any contact, be distant and let her come to me if she is needing space and a break?

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Carol N asked:


I am writing a lesson plan for my methods class, I am trying to decide if I am talking to a group of high school students do I just used the tu command or should I use ustedes commands?

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onestar asked:


Why does the US not make it a requirement to learn another language besides English? EVERY other non-English-speaking country has this as a requirement. I’m a US student in Denmark and EVERY person in the class knows AT LEAST 2 languages. Some know 3, or 4. But because I was born in the US, I only know ONE language. I don’t think it’s fair, and it pisses me off to no end. I was not encouraged to fully learn another language as a child (the crummy 1-hour French and Spanish lessons they gave us in Elementary school do not count; nor do the ridiculous middle and high school language classes). I feel that I was deprived.

Now I want to actually LEARN a second language by taking a Danish so that I can participate in their culture and expand my horizons. But guess what? I’m told I don’t qualify for the class because I have not learned another language besides English. (The requirements are that you have to either have English as your second language OR have English as your native language PLUS be fluent in at least one other language). All of my fellow international classmates qualify…because they had the luxury of learning another language as a child.

It just pisses me off. I can’t afford the expensive Rosetta Stone program, and besides, I feel like it would be better and more effective to learn a language in a class, with active participants and the ability to interact with classmates and practice what you are learning. It’s no fun to pore through books and computer software all by your lonesome.

What’s up with the US? When are they going to make foreign language learning a requirement? Maybe I should write to Barack Obama and bring about this change.

I think US citizens are being shortchanged by not being required to learn another language. I will make SURE my kids are fluent in at least 1 other language besides English.
Not Andrea: I think that’s a GREAT idea.

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