Learning spanish

poison girl

poison girl

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This thread is for people who want to learn spanish. If you want to learn something from this interesting and complicated lenguaje post here your doubt. I'm sure there will be more people that will be glad to lend you a hand.
 
I'm gonna have a Spanish course in September and will last 10 weeks. School organizes it. I'm studying computing at a bachelors level so it is just for fun! So this thread might come in handy! I've already had spanish at my high school but I confused it with my French so I'm bad at both languages at the moment. But Spanish sounds so cool!
 
I had at the same time english, french, latin and ancient greek for two years in high school. You should see the mess I made in one exam...

If you're going to learn spanish and have any doubt about it, feel free to ask me!
 
at my school you only need 2 years of spanish and i finished those. :p i know some spanish. not fluent, even though it would be a good idea if i was since i live in Texas and Mexico is right next door :D
 
French, German, Spanish and English were the ones I had! With my own language ofcourse... Dutch..

So overwhelming.. German & English were cool. I could seperate them perfectly becuase I used both in my personal life... But then French and Spanish were to much. I love both languages but Spanish more so that's why I am gonna take a course in it...

the "to be" verb is hard... At least that is what I remember :lol: So that one would already be nice and counting from 1 to 21...
 
I'm a native spanish speaker. Both my parents talk spanish as their main language so I guess I'm fluent but not with the writing. You can ask me too don't hesitate! :)
 
The verb to be is two different verbs in spanish. Ser and estar (I admit this is difficult to explain cause I've always done without think about it). I admit I looked for the diferences in the net and translate what it said :rolleyes:

SER

1.- To define and identify: SER + noun
Aquel señor es el jefe. Este edificio es una biblioteca.

2.- To say atributes (fisical and character): SER + calificative adjetive
Félix es alto. Isabel es muy simpática.

* There are adjetives that change their meaning with SER / ESTAR
Juan es rico. (has money) / La paella está muy rica. (good taste)

3.- Temporal expressions: SER + time adverb
Es pronto. Es tarde. Es de día. Es de noche.

4.- To ask and say time:
¿Qué hora es? / Es la una.

5.- To place something in time and espace:
¿Cuándo es la boda? / ¿Dónde es la reunión?

6.- To evalue a process: SER + Calificative adjetive
Es bueno descansar el fin de semana.

ESTAR

1.- To express a temporal situation: ESTAR + Preposition + noun
Felipe está de portero. El español está de moda.

2.- To say how is someone or situations: ESTAR + Calificative adjetive
La habitación está sucia. Carmen está preocupada.

3.- Ask and say the date:
¿A qué estamos hoy? / Hoy estamos a diez de octubre.

4.- To place persons, objects and animals in space:
Miguel está en la fábrica. La leche está en la nevera.

5.- To evalue a process: ESTAR + Modal adverb
Está bien descansar el fin de semana.

6.- To express a continuity: ESTAR + Gerund
Mis amigos y yo estamos viajando por España.

7.- To express a situation's result: ESTAR + Participle
La comida ya está preparada.
 
Wow, sounds interesting :) I don't know spanish, never learnt it, but I am interested in new languages so I would like to know a bit. Anyway, I can understand stuff given that I am portuguese and that we have similarities. But I am aware that my spanish accent would suck completely :p

I find it so cute using !? in the beggining and end of the sentences, but especially because the first one is upside down (I don't know how to do it with my keyboard :confused:)

The verbs ser and estar are also used in portuguese, so I get it.

Funny that you use 'rica' when you are refering to the taste of food!

I'll be checking this thread for more stuff :) Thanks poison_girl!
 
You're wellcome CSI_Dani!! Glad to see this may be useful.

Bluecurl asked before for the numbers rom 1 to 21, so there it goes:
1 uno
2 dos
3 tres
4 cuatro
5 cinco
6 seis
7 siete
8 ocho
9 nueve
10 diez
11 once
12 doce
13 trece
14 catorce
15 quince
16 dieciseis
17 diecisiete
18 dieciocho
19 diecinueve
20 veinte
21 veintiuno
 
I've studied Spanish when I was a child and even attended the Instituto Cervantes in my teen years but my Spanish still sucks! My mom, who is a Spanish language Professor, wants me to continue with my learning Spanish. I sometimes watch telenovelas on TVE to brush up on my Spanish. :) Since we are of Spanish descent, our English is sometimes infused with Spanish terms and we use Spanish swear words. :lol:
 
i start spanish 101 in a few weeks and i'm sooo glad this thread is here b/c theres a good chance i'll need help. i took two years of french in high school and when i got to college i would have had to take upper level french classes and i've forgotten most of it so that would have been difficult. i've wanted to learn spanish anyway. between class 2 days a week, my little brothers best friend who is mexican that i plan to annoy the hell out of and you guys i might just pass. yay!
 
that_girl1 said:
Mandy I swear a lot too and I speak Spanglish most of the time:lol: Sometimes I even make up my own words.
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Heehee! :lol: For example, when I see a cute guy, I say, "He is so guapo!"...Or when a guy is being an a**h*le, I go, "He is such a cabr*n!" :lol:
 
Yea me and my friends do that a lot its so funny. And sometimes I talk so fast my friends don't even know what I'm saying and also people who don't know Spanish they try to talk it but they just can't!
 
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