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Hi, everyone! I am a Spanish student and I look forward to improving my English level with native speakers. I love learning languages and different cultures. I am willing to help those who want to improve their skills in Spanish.
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    Would you please let me know what I should improve? Hi there everybody! I had to make this short video summarising a presentation I did in class this semester. As I just uploaded it to YouTube I think it would be useful to know what you, native speakers, think of it. Any comments will be welcome, especially aspects I should improve or anything you want to comment on use of language, pronunciation, content... Thank you beforehand! Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsriirLkByI&feature=youtu.be
    March 26, 2015
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    1. Quiero cualquier camisa. (you can omit the subject 'yo') 2. No estoy cansado. (we tend to use the negation before the verb:, e.g. 'no voy a ir', 'no me gusta el pescado', etc...) 3. ¿De dónde ha venido tu amigo? 4. Excepto yo, todos van al cine. 5. Me lavo las manos con jabón. (we don't really say 'MIS manos' or 'MIS ojos'; instead, we say 'me pican LOS ojos', 'me di en LA mano'...) 6. ¡Acuéstate pronto! 7. Hay mucha humedad hoy. ('húmedo' is an adjective; here you need the noun) 8. Mi hermano y yo vamos todos los domingos al cine. (the verb 'van' is for 'they' and here you have to conjugate the verb for 'we') 9. Mi casa está entre el banco y el gimnasio. 10. Mi padre te lo dice.
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    December 6, 2014
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  • Answered
    Hola, Gloria: Al menos en España, ambas frases 'salir de marcha' y 'salir de juerga' quieren decir lo mismo. De manera que puedes usarlas como sinónimos de 'salir de fiesta'. Espero que te sirva de ayuda.
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    December 6, 2014
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  • Commented

    Thank you very much Imk, Peachey and Mike for your answers and tips. I will keep on my research on the US dialects.

    I hoped I could find some kind of ‘clear’ division as the one we have in Spain where dialects are somehow differentiated by some characteristic features and, therefore, grouped together as a ‘same dialect’. These are the four major varieties in which the Spanish language is usually divided in Spain. Then, -of course- each of them has a particular accent; but this seems much more difficult regarding the United States.

    1. Northern Peninsular (Asturias, Castilla y León, Cantabria, Basque country, Navarre, Aragón, Rioja, Provinces of Guadalajara and Cuenca)
    2. Central-Southern Peninsular (Madrid, Toledo, La Mancha)
    3. Southern Peninsular (Andalusia, Extremadura, and Murcia)
    4. Canarian (Canary Islands)

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    November 3, 2014
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  • Posted
    American English

    :-) Good morning, afternoon or evening (depending on where you are reading this from)
     

    Lately, I have been focusing my studies of English on the American variety which has led me to some questions. I know there are different dialects/ accents around all the country (General American, Southern dialect and so on); but, which ones would you say the major ones are?


    In other words, in how many major accents/ dialects would you divide the English language in the States?
     

    Thank you beforehand for all the possible answers,

    Brenda.

    November 2, 2014
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    Hi there! You can use both indistinctively. I'd say it's a matter of speaker's preference. (e.g. I tend to use 'hubiera' much often than 'hubiese'). Hope this helps.
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    November 2, 2014
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    - Pagas y le dices al cajero/a: 'Gracias' - Esta persona te responde omitiendo el gracias: (Gracias) a ti, guapa. Su equivalente podría ser cualquiera de los que has dicho, literalmente sería '(Thanks) to you, love/ beauty' whatever charming and lovely adjective you want to use. Unlike Fer's opinion, I do use it and hear it quite often. MAYBE because my region is the Canary Islands and these kinds of expressions are much more common here than in the mainland.
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    June 30, 2014
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  • Corrected

    Hola, Nathan:

    La palabra 'ya', casi siempre, equivale a 'already' en inglés. 

     

    - ¿Ya terminaste la tarea? ¿Terminaste ya la tarea? ¿Terminaste la tarea ya? (puedes colocarlo en diferentes lugares de la frase, no hay regla).
    - Did you already finish your homework?


    Las palabras 'solo' y 'solamente' pueden ser sinónimos o no. (Desde hace unos años ya no se escribe 'solo' con tilde, la RAE (Real Academia de Español) lo cambió. 

    Solo y Solamente como sinónimos son equivalentes a 'just' o 'only' en inglés.

    - Quiero hablar solamente con españoles. / Quiero hablar solo con españoles.
    - I only want to speak to Spanish people.  / I just want to speak to Spanish people.

    Sin embargo, 'solo' también puede significar 'alone' en diferentes situaciones; es decir, tendrás que saber a qué se refiere mirando el contexto de la frase. 

    - Déjame solo.

    - Let me alone. 


    - Me siento solo. 

    - I feel lonely.  


    Espero que esto te sirva de ayuda.






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    June 27, 2014
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    June 22, 2014
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  • Commented

    Puedo darte algunos trucos, Mike. Aunque lo mejor es escuchar mucho de diferentes géneros para poder ser capaz de distinguirlo.  

    Por lo general, la bachata se distingue bastante fácil.  A la gente le suele costar más distinguir entre salsa y merengue. Pero todo es cuestión de acostumbrar el oído, de la misma forma que lo hacemos para distinguir los acentos en los idiomas.

     

     

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    June 10, 2014
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