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Spanish Word of the Day
| December 8th, 2018 at 5:41:25 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | A Mexican friend wrote: Todos, todas y todis...o...todus It seems to be about the neutral "all"?"Todes", "todis" or "todus" Mexicans are apparently having this discussion as well, and sometimes they resort to the "singular they" to achieve gender neutrality. |
| December 8th, 2018 at 6:16:28 PM permalink | |
| DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4967 | As a 50 year old man that knows no Spanish but would like to learn some does anyone ave any recommendations of a good program? I don't have enough time for any sort of immersion classes and I am skeptical a twice a week class will get me up to speed. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
| December 9th, 2018 at 6:36:17 AM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Hi Rich. I recommend "bilingual books." These are story books where the same story is in Spanish on one side and English on the other. The level is kept in pretty simple Spanish. I especially recommend any by Joe Hayes. I think it was Paco who turned me onto him. I have several of such books you can borrow. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| December 9th, 2018 at 7:22:34 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
In 2012, I wrote to Joe Hayes, author of The Day It Snowed Tortillas. (El Día Que Nevaron Tortillas | El Día Que Nevó Tortilla ). He said there was some argument about the correct translation of his title (single or plural verb), because Spanish does not have the "indefinite it". So different editions of the book have different titles. In English when we say "It Snowed" or "It rained" it is not clear who or what "it" refers to, so we don't consider the word "it" to be a pronoun. So the word "it" in this case is an indefinite article or a determiner. Some grammarians do not give determiners a word class of their own, but treat them as adjectives. Main Determiners: These are the main determiners. There can be only ONE main determiner in a noun phrase: Articles: a/an, the Demonstrative Determiners: this/that, these/those Possessive Determiners: my, your, his, her, its, our, their |
| December 9th, 2018 at 6:02:37 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
You are going to scare Dave off of taking up Spanish with that story. Please don't go over the difference between para and por for now. I've always thought that going over the many rules to that with beginners is an easy way to make them hate Spanish. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
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| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Then here are vocabulary words that are easy to lean. Remember that Spanish comes from Latin, and most English words come from French which also comes from Latin.
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| August 13th, 2019 at 5:10:54 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | Los Tigres del Norte are playing at Harrah's Laughlin on October 26. I was offered free tickets. Who wants to join me?! Paco gets first dibs.  Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
| August 13th, 2019 at 5:39:42 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Thank you very much, but I will have to pass. Spanish language version of Folsom Prison Blues.cc |
| August 13th, 2019 at 5:53:50 PM permalink | |
| terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
I get this This page isn't available The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed. Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
| August 13th, 2019 at 7:41:42 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
Shoot. I'll throw it open to everybody then. Great video, by the way. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |