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- When you use the article "the" you are referring to one specific thing (table, balcony, roof, etc.) Let's imagine you are in a classroom and there are 15 desks. If you say "put it on a desk" it means that I can put the objet in any desk. If you say "put it on the desk" you'd be talking about a specific desk which I'd be able to recognize by the rest of the contex of our conversation. So, using a word from your list: I traveled to another country and I was visiting A museum when the accident happended. (Maybe I don't remember the museum I was in, or knowing that it was a specific museum isn't as important) -Have you visited the National Art Museum? -Yes! Actually I met a friend when I was visiting THE museum. (I know the particular museum that was visited )0 votedAugust 16, 20170
- Hi Andrea I am aslo studying japanese and I find kanji very confusing since I'm native spanish speaker and having different systems for writting one language is very different for me. Like torusan said, most kanji books have two categories of reading onyomi and kunyomi. The tricky part for me has been to know how to pronounce it everytime I see it written. So far I have not seen a rule exactly. Except that you'll use kunyomi when the kanji stands on its own as a word. Kanji is very importand because they give you the "meaning". For example, you can find two words that are pronnounced the same, but have different meanings and you'll know those meanings by a) context and b) the kanji they're written with. As dor the pronunciation part, I'd recommend you not to try to learn rules for reading. For me it never worked out, on the other hand, I know this sounds crazy, specially if you're just begenning your japanese study, but try to read as mmuch as you can, even if you need a dictionary next to you. I'd wish someone had told me this when I began to study. Trying to learn kanji isolated (like most of kanji books teach) is incredibly slow, and relies on your good memory most of the time. Try searching for bilingual books in amazon, or children books that use furigana so you learn the way THAT kanji is pronounced in THAT word. And re-read once in a while. If you don't know the meaning, use a dictionary or a translator. Kanji books are useful because they teach you the stroke order and it makes your handwritten kanji easier to undestrand, and also for some search engines you need to know how many strokes does a kanji have in order to find it. But my advice would be to get familiar with written kanji since the beginning. Kanji books teach you each kanji has a set of different readings and then they send you to read and infere how it's pronounced in each situation but in isolated words. Reading in context has proven to be way faster and useful for me.0 votedAugust 4, 20171
- 2) Noña o coca: Herida que queda después de raspón o caída. --- scab 3) Frikiao: Estado de miedo, medio demencia.--- insane/upset 4) Tabluo: Algo exageradamente grande.-- huge 5) Espeluca: Que no se peina --- messy hair/disheveled 7) Pelao or limpio: Sin plata. --- to be broke 9)Chichón: Protuberancia que sale a causa de un golpe. --- head bump 10) Pelao: Niño o joven. --- kiddo 11) ¡Caramba!!: O sea ¡¡Caramba!! --- Oh boy! Oh my! Holly molly! Jeez! I want to clarify that this all words are from peoples peoples of the Columbian north cost. Thank you for input. At least I would choose those words for translating. The costra del arroz, I have no idea haha I'm from Mexico and I have no mexican word for that, maybe "nata" but ... not so sure0 votedAugust 4, 20171
I think verbs are actually the most important words to learn in any language because a list of erbs really enables you to create full lenght sentences, and verbs have their own complications since they are the recivers of conjugations. I would recommend a list of daily life verbs in your native language and search for those verbs in the language you are learning.
I have searched for different languages verb lists and most of them follow that path: sleep, eat, drink, go to, auxiliar verbs, etc. etc.
0 votedAugust 4, 20170Una lengua tan bonita
La lengua española siempre ha jugado un papel muy importante en mi vida. Intento hablar lo más que pueda, con personas originarias de países hispanohablantes o sólo con mí conmigo misma. Me encanta esta lengua, me suena muy bien y la encuentro mucha mucho más bonita que las otras lenguas latinas.
Sé que tengo un buen nivel gracias a todos los exámenes que he aprobado en mi vida y en mis estudios, pero no es una razón para dejar de mejorarme. De hecho, todavía hago algunos errores que considero estúpidos: olvidarme de la irregularidad de un verbo que utilizo diario, del genero de una palabra que ya vi un millón de veces, y otras cosas que ocurren por culpa de una falta de atención.
Recientemente, empecé a traducir extractos de las obras de la literatura francesa que más me gustan. Me percaté de que hacía muchos más errores que cuando cuento simplemente mi vida como lo estoy haciendo ahora. Es lógico; el nivel de lengua utilizado por los autores clásicos no se parece al que utilizamos en nuestra vida diaria: palabras difíciles, estructuras que ya no existen hoy en día y que incluso en la lengua de origen del autor pueden ser difíciles de entender….
¿Intentar traducir en una lengua que no es mi lengua nativa? ¡Qué locura! Pero equivocarme me da ganas de seguir adelante, de progresar, y de entender mis errores. Como lo escribió un día Goya poco antes de morir:
¡Aún aprendo!0 votedJuly 18, 20171Mi Tema Hoy - ¿Cómo te sientes sobre el miércoles?
El miércoles es un día. Un día normal. Nada sucede usualmente en el miércoles. A veces no tengo que trabajar a el miércoles si trabajo a el sábado. Guao. Supongo que no siento nada sobre el miércoles. Es un día aburrido. A menos que estás estés de vacaciones. ¡Entonces estaría un día fabuloso! Esta Este tema es muy sosa soso. Voy cambiarlo un poquito. La nueva tema El nuevo tema, ¿Qué podrías hacer a un miércoles sin restricciones excepto una cosa, tienes que estar a en tu casa al terminar el día? Yo podría llamar mi prometido. "Encuéntrame en el aeropuerto a de San Juan de Puerto Rico." Entonces volaría a San Juan, me encontraría con mi prometido y e iríamos y disfrutaríamos Puerto Rico. ¡Podríamos practicar nuestro español! ¡Qué rico! Bueno. Eso es todo para por hoy. El tema de mañana, enumera diez cosas que te obligan sentir a sentirte feliz.
Hasta Pronto
Ángela0 votedJuly 13, 20170Try to stay logged in for a couple of hours a day, so people interested in learning you language can see you are active and send messages to you. Also, be open to exchanging mail adress or some other instant message app.
Try to reply in the same day you receive a message and comment in other people's questions, that will make you more visible for people who would be interested in being your language exchange partner :)
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