Author Topic: Wanting to learn Spanish (Read 25868 times)

star seed 7 · « **Reply #50 on:** February 01, 2016, 08:14:24 PM »

Quote from: CNS on February 01, 2016, 08:06:50 PM

Was it the shaming?

No.

Maybe I should try again

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #51 on:** February 02, 2016, 08:31:06 AM »

If you want to learn Spanish get a roofing job or something like that.

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #52 on:** February 02, 2016, 08:35:12 AM »

¡Buenos días!

BTW, why is it dias instead of dia? Doesn't that mean "Good mornings"?

Dub · « **Reply #53 on:** February 02, 2016, 08:52:47 AM »

Its probably one of those cultural idiosyncrasies

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #54 on:** February 02, 2016, 09:02:06 AM »

Actually ¡Buenos días! exactly translates to Good Day (or Good Days?) but they use it to mean "Good Morning"

Mañana mean "morning" but it also means "tomorrow"

Institutional Control · « **Reply #55 on:** February 02, 2016, 09:17:36 AM »

This thread was started 5 years ago, is it safe to assume that CNS now speaks fluent Spanish?

CNS · « **Reply #56 on:** February 02, 2016, 09:40:03 AM »

HerrSonntag · « **Reply #57 on:** February 02, 2016, 09:59:45 AM »

Quote from: Mrs. Gooch on February 02, 2016, 09:02:06 AM

Actually ¡Buenos días! exactly translates to Good Day (or Good Days?) but they use it to mean "Good Morning"

Mañana mean "morning" but it also means "tomorrow"

The German word morgen also means both morning and tomorrow.

Curious, i looked up the word morrow and sure enough it used to mean both tomorrow and morning! Wowzers!

kso_FAN · « **Reply #58 on:** February 02, 2016, 10:37:33 AM »

My wife teaches Spanish. The older you get the harder it is to learn, and to really learn another language by far the best way is immersion.

Gooch · « **Reply #59 on:** February 02, 2016, 10:39:11 AM »

Can't roll my R's no chance of me speaking Spanish.

CNS · « **Reply #60 on:** February 02, 2016, 10:46:27 AM »

Quote from: royals&ksu_FAN on February 02, 2016, 10:37:33 AM

My wife teaches Spanish. The older you get the harder it is to learn, and to really learn another language by far the best way is immersion.

Is she fluent? I have known 3 middle school and high school spanish teachers in our area and not one is fluent. Discouraging.

kso_FAN · « **Reply #61 on:** February 02, 2016, 10:51:10 AM »

Quote from: CNS on February 02, 2016, 10:46:27 AM

Quote from: royals&ksu_FAN on February 02, 2016, 10:37:33 AM
My wife teaches Spanish. The older you get the harder it is to learn, and to really learn another language by far the best way is immersion.

Is she fluent? I have known 3 middle school and high school spanish teachers in our area and not one is fluent. Discouraging.

Yes, because she spent a year as an exchange student immersed in Spanish. Most/many foreign language teachers aren't fluent because most don't get that opportunity. There is only so much you can learn taking classes and talking in another language once in a while.

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #62 on:** February 02, 2016, 11:37:09 AM »

Quote from: HerrSonntag on February 02, 2016, 09:59:45 AM

Quote from: Mrs. Gooch on February 02, 2016, 09:02:06 AM
Actually ¡Buenos días! exactly translates to Good Day (or Good Days?) but they use it to mean "Good Morning"

Mañana mean "morning" but it also means "tomorrow"
The German word morgen also means both morning and tomorrow.

Curious, i looked up the word morrow and sure enough it used to mean both tomorrow and morning! Wowzers!

OK, apparently la mañana means morning and el mañana means tomorrow....I think....maybe...stupid Spanish with it's masculine and feminine ever-y-thing! It must be really hard to be transgender in a Spanish speaking country.

mocat · « **Reply #63 on:** February 02, 2016, 11:42:27 AM »

also dia is masculine despite ending in a

CNS · « **Reply #64 on:** February 02, 2016, 11:51:05 AM »

I don't think it reasonable to ever get a full handle on that stuff. I mean, any American's expectancy for fluency should be to max out somewhere around sounding like the stock foreign exchange student in any teen movie you can name.

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #65 on:** February 02, 2016, 12:24:43 PM »

Eye yam eh zex masheen

kso_FAN · « **Reply #66 on:** February 02, 2016, 12:41:22 PM »

Quote from: CNS on February 02, 2016, 11:51:05 AM

I don't think it reasonable to ever get a full handle on that stuff. I mean, any American's expectancy for fluency should be to max out somewhere around sounding like the stock foreign exchange student in any teen movie you can name.

True. My wife can detect some differences from countries/regions of south america and spain, but you can only know so much. For example, she struggled with much of the slang when translated Ourdano's tweets last year.

Cire · « **Reply #67 on:** February 02, 2016, 01:07:37 PM »

how much time do you need to spend each day learning?

I have duolingo and it's kind of fun to play around with but 10-20 minutes a day doesn't seem like much.

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #68 on:** February 02, 2016, 01:59:49 PM »

One of my friends just posted on Facebook a screen shot showing she is 2% fluent in French from the Duolingo app. So I'm thinking about getting it for Spanish now.

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #69 on:** February 02, 2016, 02:06:50 PM »

Quote from: Cire on February 02, 2016, 01:07:37 PM

how much time do you need to spend each day learning?

I have duolingo and it's kind of fun to play around with but 10-20 minutes a day doesn't seem like much.

Just downloaded it. The "insane" setting is 20 minutes per day. LOL

star seed 7 · « **Reply #70 on:** February 02, 2016, 03:48:40 PM »

Quote from: Emo EMAW on February 02, 2016, 12:24:43 PM

Eye yam eh zex masheen

Wud u lik 2 tuch my peness

Mrs. Gooch · « **Reply #71 on:** February 02, 2016, 05:41:27 PM »

I should be fluent in 50 days.

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pissclams · « **Reply #72 on:** February 02, 2016, 06:29:12 PM »

definitely add that little nugget to your linked in profile, much more impressive than a lawn mowing service from 7th grade

wetwillie · « **Reply #73 on:** February 02, 2016, 06:42:27 PM »

The 1000 most frequently used words in Spanish unlock 77% of all written language and nearly 90 % of all spoken language. I would imagine that's plenty for what most of you want to use Spanish for.

star seed 7 · « **Reply #74 on:** February 02, 2016, 06:57:23 PM »

you don't rough ridin' know me