Lesson Introduction
What's up? How's it going? What's shakin'? We have so many ways casual ways to greet each other in English. This lesson is all about how we greet our friends casually in Spanish. Liliana tells us how common it is for Spanish speakers throw in a compliment; for example, "hello, beautiful!" We all deserve to hear "hello, beautiful!" every now and then, don't we?
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Stevestr
Gracias otra vez por ayudarme. Hay tanto que aprender.
buena leccion, y gracias a stevestre y Jeraldina por ayudarme aprender "me gusta ella" y "Me cae muy bien"
I have been using guapa with my Spanish female friends, and they love it.
Guapa,buenos dias.
deedeewarren
Claro que les gusta! Of course they love it! It´s nice to compliment girls! Now I have to write one complementing men!...
Hola guapo! or maybe Hola guapísimo!
Hello,
I've just begun learning Spanish, and I'm having a little hard time understanding how to use the verb ser. I've noticed that sometimes in Spanish you can use "es" or "esta" "estoy" (does "esto" exist?).
(I'm assuming that esta is for feminine nouns? If esto exists, is it for masculine nouns?
Some of the examples I saw in some comments posted above:
Yo tengo Windows xphome y Ubuntu y quiero comprar una computadora del Apple, pero no tengo dinero por esto hoy.
Por favor, explique cómo esta oración significa "I like her."
So I have a few questions:
Also, something else that I've noticed in Spanish, is that you don't have to use pronouns when using a lot of verbs. But then, I see that some verbs you can use pronouns. Why is that? Why is it okay not to use pronouns?
(I speak fluent French so a lot of Spanish grammar seems strange to me, because I notice contradictions)
Hola, cómo están? soy hablante nativo de español, me agregue a esta página para ayudar a quién necesite a clarificar sus dudas y bueno, ayudar también en difundir un idioma tan lindo como el nuestro. Hablo Inglés, portugués y Quisiera perfeccionar mi árabe, asi que bueno, como ya dije esoy aqui para ayudar.
Hi , how you doin? im a spanish native speaker, i came to this page to help out anyone who needs to speak spanish, or learn some more spanish. I would like to clarify doubts and spread out a beautiful language as spanish it is. I speak English, Portugese and i would like to improve my arabic so, as i said im here to help :)
Pleasantly surprised that the new exercise format is in such an old lesson. I guess someone has gone back and done this. I find they're all useful exercises, but particularly the dictation exercises...not only testing listening comprehension but it makes sure I get my spelling right. So thanks for this SPod :)
From the expansion:
Tu novia es muy guapa.
...tu novia is translated as your girlfriend but my rollover has it translated as bride [novia sounds like new to me, and bride is your newly become wife] or bridegroom. Can it be both girlfriend and bride and context dictates or is my rollover wrong? What's the story here?
Bababardwad
Yes. See Word Reference.
http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=novio
thanks mate :)
Also, from the expansion:
Me cae bien
..is translated as "I like her" but the SPod rollover for it in that same expansion sentence has "cae" translated as "he seems". Is it gender neutral and context dictates, or is one wrong?
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caer= gustar?
hey stevestr,
Great to see you still around mi amigo. Thanks for your help. :)
Thank you Bababardwad. But I just checkout the site once every few months.
ckatr
Be careful. If you say “me cae bien él” or “me caen bien ellos” it means that you like the person/people personally. If you use gustar you may be misunderstood. If you say “me gusta ella” . It would imply a sexual attraction in most of Latin America. I am pretty sure the in Spain it just means that you like the person and is equivalent to saying me “cae bien ella”
Great tip stevestr. Gracias.
can we use for men (masculino) "guapo", lindo or bello? or that words use only women?
gracias.
Hola
Mi nombre es Sylvia Oneil, vi tu perfil y me interesé en ti, es por eso que decidí contactar con usted, yo también me gustaría saber algo más, y quiero que usted envíe un correo electrónico a mi dirección de correo electrónico (sylvia.oneil@ymail.com) para que yo pueda darle mi imagen para que sepas que yo soy, Recuerde que la distancia, el color o el idioma no importa, sino el amor asuntos mucho en la vida, estoy a la espera de su respuesta.
jeje, so funny seeing this regular message in Spanish. Made it easy to read because I've seen it so often in English before.
We even informally and very locally in Chile use the word Rico for a man wich means rich and Rica for a woman wich means the same when we want to say that someone is very atractive, but i insist this is informal and only used in Chile.
We sometimes say esta buena, or esta bueno the first for a woman and second adressing to a man, but once again it is informal :)
"the same when we want to say that someone is very atractive"
...so if they're dirt poor but very attractive they're still "Rica"?
yea, if its atractive for you then she´s rica :) but remember that is only used in chile and so informal you better use guapa for a girl and guapo for man.
And if you want to be formal u use atractivo for a man and atractiva for a woman :)
gracias por la explicación amigo
Dear fellow Spanish Learners,
After completing exercises, it seems that I am unable to see the scores. Kindly let me know if you have faced similar problem and also the solution for the same.
Thanks.
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(jenifersoumah3@yahoo.com) so that i will send you my picture, so for you to know who i am, i have something VERY IMPORTANT to tell you about my self. please contact me direct to my email
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