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Libro favorito
Me gustaria compartir uno de mis libros favoritos. <em>(yeah i know, it's singular yet you use plural when referring to the books, since they (the books) are plural.... altough it's only one book you're talking about, it's weird lol)</em>
" The Elements of Style" por William Strunk Jr. y E.B. White. Este libro fue escrito en 1935.
Aprendi Me entere/escuche/conocí sobre este libro hace 27 anos cuando estaba en la facultad de derecho.
<em>Here, you could say "aprendi" (i learned about...i'm guessing was what you were thinking in english), but it would sound weird, we would use other synonims to that english word such as (in the same order i wrote them, and literally translated): I found out/heard/met) </em>
Lo es un libro muy pequeno pero es muy bueno. <em>(in most cases, just loose the "it", we leave lots and lots of things implicit lol, so instead of "it is", we just say "is", it's already understood in the context that you are talking about something, so no need to repeat the "it")</em>
Que cubre todos las reglas de gramatica. La regla mas importante es en oraciones cortas y palabras simples. Uso este libro pequeno y viejo todo el tiempo.
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</em><em>Now, if you were going to use the adjective "little" then it would go directly into the word, making it a diminutive, in the case of "book" the diminutive form would be "librito" (small book) so you could then loose "pequeño". So in the end you could just say "uso este viejo librito" (i use this little old book). This way would be more natural, but theres actually nothing wrong if you want to use the adjective by itself. </em>
Lo es el estandar de oro para escribeir.
0 votedFebruary 11, 20141- En essayent du Français Je dois du debuter d'essayer mon français parce que j'ai été en lisant, et aussi (quoique on moins quantité) en écouter textes au français, mais je n'ai pas été essayé l'ecriture, D'une parte est difficile parce que l'ecriture c'est totalement différent du son, et on outre être la difference du vocabulaire actif e pasif. Il vocabulaire pasif, sont le mots que vous connaitre quand vous lisez quelque chose, et vous pensez, "ah!! je sais qu'il signifie!!". Mais si vous vouliez rappeler le mot, sans aidée du l'ecriture ou sans ecouter quelque chose, tu ne pourrais pas. Et c'est il la difference avec le vocabulaire actif, dans ce dernier, tu pourrais invoquer, rappeler, appeler, a quelque mots que tu voudrais, n'importe quel moment (whenever you want?). Mais changer entre ce vocabulaires, c'est un peu difficil, et il n'y a pas autre option, qui à practiquer beacoup à travers du l'ecriture et la conversation!February 11, 201400
(Yo) Tengo Un Problema.
<em>It's not neccesary to always put the subject, in spanish we can leave A LOT of things in a implicit manner, so if you would only say "Tengo un problema" it's already understood that it's about YOU, and not anyone else. </em>
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</em>En mi clase de español, nosotros tenemos mucha tarea.
...Y yo pienso que mi nivel de español es muy...escaso.
¿Cómo puedo ser mejor en esta lengua?
Tuve esta clase por proximo alrededor de tres años, pero no veo la mejora. mejoría QQ-------------
Just keep practicing reading and listening!! The more vocabulary you have the more fluently you can speak! Study grammar but don't go crazy on it, i think it's more importante the vocabulary, because even if you could only speak with verbs on it's infinitive form, in real life, i could understand what is it that you want, however you could have a perfect grammar with only 100 words, and then it wouldn't bee of much use lol
0 votedFebruary 11, 20142- Oh!! That's a really tricky particle!! I found some links that i think will be useful to you, because even if i'm a native, i can't really explain in words why or when we use it lol!! XD. I'm actually learning a lot of it jajaja. However don't sweat it and don't get discouraged, keep on reading a lot of texts in spanish and eventually you'll get the hang of it and be able to know when is needed without actually needing the reasoning behind the rules. But that will come after a lot of reading!! In the meanwhile and to help as reference, here are some interesting links!: http://spanish.about.com/od/pronouns/a/introduction_se.htm http://spanish.about.com/cs/verbs/a/passive_se.htm http://www.indiana.edu/~call/reglas/pron_se.html0 votedJanuary 7, 20141
Va a ser a hacer más frío, ¿no?
Como dije en la entrada pasadao, va a ser más frío, según de la previsión del tiempo.
Sin embargo, hoy ví que el la nieve comenzó a fundirse. (the snow, in spanish is femenin, so you use "la" instead of "el")
As for "la prevision del tiempo": it's really not quite wrong to use "la prevision del tiempo" but it sounds reaaaaally weird lol. A more colloquial word you could use could be "pronóstico del tiempo", something like:segun el pronostico del tiempo
Even more, given the context you could say just "segun el pronostico", since you have already established that you're speaking of cold weather, we can completly understand that when you say "el pronostico" you're refferring to "el pronostico del tiempo" (weather forecast)
0 votedJanuary 6, 20141- I think your idea of reading and listening is really good, i don't think you should spend a lot of time trying to figure out the grammar, but to start with vocabulary, if you can already read some, then i think it'll be easier, and with time you'll start to pick out the patterns in forming sentences and using verbs (of course you can also study some grammar to have a better understanding) I think a very good idea is to pay a visit to lingq, it has more or less the idea you're after (reading and listening at the same time) but with the advantage that it has the translation right there also, by using google (yeah, it's not always that great, especially for some contexts, BUT it does make it faster to check it out right there in the same page, than go to a external dictionary and search for a specific word)0 votedJanuary 6, 20140
- Con un monton de vocabulario XD En mi opinion la manera en la que nos comunicamos, depende muchisimo de la cantidad de vocabulario que tienes, el conocer palabras es lo que evita que nos quedemos usando muletillas como "esteeee", "eeehmmm" mientras buscamos recordar una palabra. Sin embargo no es que lo puedas hacer de manera separada de otras cosas, por ejemplo la pronunciacion tambien es bastante importante, no te va a servir de nada saber muchisimas palabras sino las puedes pronunciar bien para que te entiendan. Eso no quiere decir que tengas que conseguirte un acento, al final muchas veces el acento no es impedimento para entenderle a alguien que te esta hablando a menos que sea TAN FUERTE que choque con la correcta pronunciacion de las palabras.0 votedJanuary 5, 20140
