A question for all of our members outside the U.S.

Nice topic Branjita  Well in my case, as some of you may know I'm from Guatemala. I've been studying English since I was a kid, I went to an academy since I was 8 yrs or so. I've been practicing it since and currently I'm an English Instructor , I basically work on my own and teach at a corporate group/company, and I think this will be my 5th year of teaching. Regarding DBZ, yes here in Guate is very common to find DBZ fans. Dragon Ball, DBZ and GT were all aired on T.V many years ago and currently DBZ Kai is being aired on Cartoon Network. Mexico was in charge of the dubbing, so I grew up watching DBZ in spanish; the voice dubbing in spanish was/is magnific guys (the original, not Kai), many of the users here that saw it in spanish (perhaps Gohan and marquillo) will understand it . The voice actors are still very famous, and they also attend to different conventions in Mexico and even here in Guatemala. There's actually a convention soon here in my country and Goku and Vegeta's voice actors are coming; that's just exciting. 

When I was in elementary, DBZ was very popular, and it was probably the most commented cartoon. I even remember being bullied A LOT no... actually A LOOOOOT for liking Yamcha  I even remember I almost got into a fight a couple times with one of my friends, because he used to tease me saying Yamcha sucked, so we almost threw a couple punches haha, (so yeah I've been a hardcore Yamcha fan since I was a kid). Regarding the fact that there aren't any other Guatemala users here, I'm not sure why, I mean the language barrier could be one reason, and the other could be that there aren't many dedicated DBZ collectors. I'm a member at a general figure collecting group from Guate on FB and most of the figures they collect are Transformers, Marvel and DC; not DBZ. Now that you mention I guess I'm the only member from Central America haha. I guess there are fans, but they have grown up and have dedicated to other things haha, to give you an idea, from my high school group of friends, I'm the only one that still watches DBZ and the only one that has bought figures.  

We also have some anime stores, where you can find DBZ figures like gashapons, S.H. Figuarts and such. This is the most famous/known anime store we have: www.facebook.com/maggaare as you can see they have Goku as their profile picture haha. The store rocks and they import a lot of the good stuff. As a conclusion, DBZ was and still is very popular here in my country, and if you are studying or wanting to study spanish, I definitely recommend watching DBZ to practice it  . 

I should've asked you for help when I had French saiyen haha. Je parle francie?

juanjorman Yeah I watched it first in Spanish, gotta love mario castañeda! My parents came over to the states and stayed in Texas, so most of the public(?) channels were in Spanish. They would ALWAYS pass db/z on tv somewhere, and in the weekends they would have an all day marathon(not sure how long it really was but it took a while!). I'm guessing that's the reason why there's a lot of DB fans in mexico. Which makes me wonder why there isn't more members around.

What I never understood is why saiyen listed as a girl

Well, In my case I´ve studied english since I was 7 years old, the problem in my country (Argentina) is that many people cannot speak in english :S I have a friend that has a huge collection, but isnot able to post anything here, its like chinese for him.
Well, talking about DB here in my country, nowadays there are lots of fans, but in the nineties it was totally viral, without being offensive with the other members, I think that in america it used to be the country with more fans, and really sick ones.
In my primary school everyone (even some girls) watched the TV show (dubbed by the mexican´s Intertrack) and also collected Sticker/cards albums, it was somehow mandatory back in those times.
Ultra Figus, the same line that released the mini figures, also made albums of all the series from Db to DbGT (the are 8 in total, fortunately I own them all )
As you may know, the country is poor so it was hard to have a toy line as jakks/irwin, but as you may know Jocsa re-made some battle collection figures.
I remember that back in 1996-97 it was really hard to get figures, so with my brother, we started buying in chinese stores the SBC bootlegs, u$s2 each hehe (without counting Gt, I think in those times we bought every SBC figure at least from Z)
Jakks and Irwin were never officialy released here, but AB from france was introduced by a franchise, that brought 4-5 basic models, the firm was called New Toys.
As juanjorman said, the mexican dub was nice, and the guys that make it are real idols here. Mario Castañeda - Goku is a genius, he is also the official "dubber" of Bruce Willis, so Goku and John McClane have the same particular voice (it makes me remeber that nice illustration that Tori made of John)

Another thing that was funny in those golden days, is that the movies, and DBGT were sold in shops in VHS format brought from spain so the Dub and pronunciation was totally different, and also Weird. Because, as funimation did, the spanish guys also changed some names, i think the mexicans were really respectful with the original japanese ones, except from chichi-milk (because it means nipple).
I wont make this post longer and boring, but just as e.g. some spanish funny name pronunciations were: "Songoanda" (all togheter) for gohan; Mutenroi for Kame Sennin, or the Kame Hame Ha was Called "Onda vital" (vital wave)

lol every character is from Space Australia.

In my case, I have learned English at school like most people, it's an obligatory subject since a young age, I would say nowadays it's even earlier than years before when I studied.
It's curious though, that how I improved it most was when I was 13 yo (more or less) because I played the game "Call of Duty 2" on the PC platform and most of the people with who I played was international, so I wanted to communicate "properly" with them (via chat or voice). Before that, I hate the English subject, but after it, it became one of my favorite subjects at school and where I got my best results

I would say that in Spain there are very few people who hasn't seen/hear about Dragon Ball. It's VERY popular over here and it was a BOOM in the 1990 when it came over here dubbed (at least in Catalonia in Català). Everyone wanted to have ANYTHING about it - photocopies, cards, stickers, plastic figures... - 

There are many Spanish forums/webs about this show, one I currently follow is at mundodvd, which has a big community. People share all things relationed with DB (merch, news and so on) similar to over here. I guess that there is no more Spanish people on here because of the language mainly. Most may know a bit of it, but not good enough to write/read/communicate easily with the rest or they just don't want to. It could also be that they just don't know this awesome forum. 

Yup, as you say their collections are one of the most impressive out there for sure, tons of amazing stuff. They are also a great source of information.

You know it's never late to get to learn something again if you need to. You can ask me if you need something important to translate to English.
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