What do you think is the simplest, yet most effective way to learn Spanish?

You really made me laugh, it is a while since I have heard anyone use the term 'jugs' for what you had in mind. The incident that I mentioned was back in the 70's when I worked in central London, I would probably still be in the restaurant today trying to explain why we used to call breasts jugs in the UK. It was at the time that restaurants started putting numbers against all the dishes on the menu to make the waitresses jobs simpler. If their was more than 2 people eating, they were still clueless when they arrived with the food.

The district and circle lines will be the first to trial the new working. The train operator, a new job title, will be able to operate the train in an emergency, but with the level of automation already in use on the new trains, they can rarely rectify a fault. Needless to say, they will be paid far less than the existing drivers £80,000 average salary, but all existing drivers will be offered a position and retain their current pay.
Everything fails to safety and uses sequential operation, so everyone will be safe from accidents, but being stuck in the tunnel for hours is another matter.
Have you seen the new platform doors that have been installed on the Jubilee line.? Another pile of pointless equipment to go wrong. Stations with a curved platform cannot use them, so people wanting to commit suicide will need to go for a ride first. The nanny state in the UK is getting crazy, they will be filling the river in next.

 

Fascinating stuff my friend! I haven't ridden any kind of subway in excess of four decades, and only a couple times total, and never been to London, so I'm totally clueless. I know they're needed though. My son lived in London for a year and would ride that thing between a flat and imperial. I don't recall any wild stories, or any details for matter, as it's been a while. That's a shocking salary for an operator, but then again it costs a fortune to live there even in cramped quarters. Def not my gig. But it's gotta happen for some.

I'm with Zen. I'll steer clear. I'd chance a ferry to Mazatlán though.

The nanny state... It knows no end. They need dependent subjects to keep them in power so they proceed accordingly. Survival of the weakest and most pathetic.

 

Date someone that speaks Spanish

 

tengo ganas de bailar

Don't mind me... I say everything wrong!

 

I have been thinking about riding down Baja (TIJ to CSL) but up would work, too.

 

Proteja tu culito...

 

That is OK until you meet a group of her friends and they can spend the evening talking abought you while you are sitting with them.

 

This used to happen to me with my ex wife. She was basically the only person that I could understand so I would sit in the conversation but by listening to her I could sort of keep up with what was going on. Not completely of course.

 

At least you understood enough to know that you were not the subject of the conversations.

 

Except that if I simply say "Proteja su culito" you can easily infer that I'm suggesting you protect the other person's. To remedy that, I'd have to insert "propio" and then it starts to sound non-conversational. By combining the formal command with the unambiguous informal second person pronoun I show that I intend respect while keeping it short.

Also, "culito" is not formally a word. But we use it often.

Just like in English, the way we talk isn't always according to the formal structure.

 

Well, remember, I was addressing this:

So, with dos personas in the mix, you and one other, if I use "su" without a qualifier, there's no way you or anyone can tell if I mean yours or his/hers. Cuide su espalda - am I saying to watch your back or am I saying to be careful not to hurt the other person's back? Could be either. There's not enough context to know. One could guess either way. But it would have to be a guess. Two of Los Cuatro Acuerdos come to mind: SÉ IMPECABLE CON TUS PALABRAS" y “NO ADIVINES NI SUPONGAS”. Don Miguel Ruiz

 

Spanglish es muy común here in Texas and California. People start saying algo en el español and then switch to English.

 

Camarones

He got it.

 

total emersion, if you can afford to go and live someplace for a while, or even perminently if that's what you want, where its what everyone else is speaking.
same for any language. that way you could learn from context what things mean, the same way as an infant you learned to speak whatever language(s) you do.