"con tal de (que)" is roughly equivalent to "so that" or "in order to". It is commonly used in "He'll do anything to..." -type sentences: Underwood es capaz de todo con tal de acceder a la Casa Blanca. Possible translations of your sentence: He says yes to everything to make you shut up She'll say yes to anything as long as she gets you to shut up

I'd try to learn the meaning of the most common 1500 or so characters as early as possible. Learning their pronunciation can come later, and you don't even need to be able to write them if you can type them. A couple of reasons: -Reading is the easiest language skill to practice for beginners, because you can set your own pace. If you don't understand the characters, you're gonna be missing out on one of the most convenient sources of input and easiest ways for you to improve your Chinese -Once you reach a critical mass of characters, you'll realize that reading is simpler in Chinese than in most foreign languages of a different family. This happens because each character carries some meaning and therefore it's easier to make sense of words you've never come across before. For a Chinese person learning English to have a similar advantage with reading, he or she would need to have a perfect command of Latin, Ancient Greek, Norman French and Old Germanic in order to be able to identify the components of most words. -Learning the meaning of characters, if done right, can be fun and sort of a break from the kind of work you usually do, so it's easy to turn it into a new learning habit. -After you've learnt some characters, you'll find that words that you never seemed to remember now stick with you very easily, because your memory has something to hold onto. (btw, I'm not saying not to listen to or speak Chinese at the beginning. Definitely do that too! Just trying to be realistic and consider what would be the easiest / most rewarding learning habit for you to develop )

In Spanish, the pronouns you mentioned tend to appear together with the complement they refer to. -*Ella escribe a él is incorrect, -Ella le escribe a él is correct. If instead of "él" (personal pronoun) you had "su madre" (not a personal pronoun), then -Ella escribe a su madre would be correct, but less common -Ella le escribe a su madre would be the most common option. Unless you put su madre before the verb, because then: -*A su madre escribe ella, no Paquito is incorrect -A su madre le escribe ella, no Paquito is correct When, then, do you not use the pronombre personal átono together with the complement it refers to? With a direct object that comes after the verb: -Vio a su madre is correct -*La vio a su madre is incorrect ------- BTW, I don't think explicit knowledge of this bit of grammar is gonna help you, I'd just try getting an intuitive feel for it and not split hairs! Good luck with your Spanish :)

Hi! Definitely wait for a native speaker, but I'd say yes. Here's my 5 cents: -There's occasions in which 过 can only be translated by "celebrate": 我平常不过生日的 or 今年回家过年吗？ -庆祝 sounds slightly more formal to me. I would ask a friend to 陪我过生日 but asking them to 陪我庆祝我的生日 sounds stilted to me, or as if I'm attaching too much importance to my birthday. It'd be great if a native speaker could confirm On a different note, I think the title of your question should be 我有个问题 or 我有问题要请教大家etc. If you say 我有问题 I think it's likely to be read as "there's something wrong with me". Like when you say 你有问题吗！？ Hope it helps!

Both would be correct (but don't forget the tilde on trópico). irme adds a slightly different nuance, something like "I want to leave for the tropics", only the Spanish sentence occurs more frequently than its English counterpart. For example, the following sentence doesn't sound as common to me: "quiero irme al cine". Here, quiero ir al cine is more natural. In the "irme al trópico" example, there's more emphasis on leaving where you are, whereas in the "ir al cine" one, the emphasis is only on where you go.