Newbie - Leave a note

Hola todos...

Today in our dialog, a couple of teenagers are leaving a note to mom.  What about you?  Do you tend to be a note leaver?  An emailer?  A texter?  Or would you rather call and leave a voice mail?

¿Prefieres escribir una notita, mandar un e-mail, escribir un mensajito?  ¿O prefieres llamar por teléfono y dejar un recado?  Would you rather write a note, send an email, or write a text message?  ¿Or would you rather call and leave a message?

Yo prefiero mandar e-mail, pero mando muchos mensajitos también.  No me gusta llamar por teléfono.  I prefer to send email, but I send a lot of text messages, too.  I don't like calling on the phone.

Me gustan escribir notas, se me hacen más personales, pero si no me gusta enviar emails.

I like to write notes, I think they are more personal, otherwise I like to send emails.

Suelo mandar mensajitos, pero prefiero recibir las notas :)

dejo una nota

what on earth is the backstory for this lesson. i get that leos voice is breaking because hes supposed to be a teenager but is the woman who has come to see his mother in tears or pain or suffering from a heavy cold? it all sounds very stressful
lilliana " the son talking to the dad to get an insight into his mother?" so that was his father? im very confused. is this part of a series and all will be revealed in future podcasts? (perhaps in an elementry lesson so people have to sign up)

no esta mi mama ¿would you like to know more?

Donperigo, I thought it was supposed to be two kids -- they go to little Leo's house to ask permission to go to the Lucha Libre, say.  Since Little Leo's mother isn't home, Little Esti suggests leaving a note for her and suggests the wording of the note.

But now that I think of it, maybe the weird voice Esti is using is meant to be masculine.  Maybe Esti is trying to sound like a man!

perhaps zanat and mondravius have been busy and esti has been replaced by a pod person as well

Hola todos

donperigo, I think that the comment that Lili made was referring to the person requesting the lesson about leaving a note...

"the son talking to the dad to get an insight into his mother?"

also, Leo sounded so funny with his teenager voice-it sounded to me like Esti was trying not to laugh!

Pero, quien sabe?

Me gustan escribir email, pero mi madre no tiene una computadora personal.

mztish, you´re right, I was trying so hard not to laugh, jajaja.

Dear Mr. JP/Liliana

Mi llamo yllas.

Love to visit your site and thanks for the lesson for today. It gave me a total understanding of the whole script but I prefer to have the word be put on the screen as well,to make it clear to the listeners who can't quickly grasped the word fully. Hope you don't mind....

Muchos gracias,

Yllas

¡Hola yllas50! Hello ylla50!

¡Bienvenido a SpanishPod! Welcome to SpanishPod!

Puedes leer las palabras del diálogo con un iPod o con iTunes; también hay un archivo pdf y una página web con el diálogo y la translación para los suscriptores que pagan . You can read the words of the dialogue with an iPod o with iTunes; there is also a pdf file and a web page with the dialogue and the translation for the paying subscribers.

Liliana&vikia:

Me gustan escribir notas/email, ...

I like to write notes/email,...

Creo que la forma (más) correcta es: Me gusta escribir notas/email.

I think the (more) correct form is: I like to write notes/email.

martinillo

I am pretty sure that you said it correctly.

Utilizo todas esas formas de comunicar. Escojo segun la circonstancia y la persona.

martinillo, stevestrv

if a person is saying "I like coffee and tea" then we use "me gustan cafe y te" because gustar is referring to the object and if it is plural, gustar is plural. if the person says "I like coffee" they would use "me gusta cafe" because coffee is referring to one thing.

So I think "me gustan escribir notas (plural) /email" es la forma correcta...

que se parecen?

mztich  martinillo

I totally agree with mztich  that “Me gusta café y té is correct.  But I do not think that it is the notas that you like, or that please you, it is escribir notas.  And with verbs you use the singular of gustar.

To me, "me gusta escribir notas" is like saying "me gusta nadar"

Stevestrv

you are right! Tienes razon!

Gracias!!!

mztish

con mucho gusto

I love this! What a great website...

I am just starting.. To excercise.. So I can impress my Madrilian morena!

Me gustan escribir emails, pero mi hija no tiene una computadora personel, solamente una computadora a su trabajor. Jajaja.

Pregunta: "Déjale una nota - Leave her a note" in the expansion portion. How do you know that the note is for a female person? Does it depend on the context or would there be a different way to say "Leave him a note".

Pregunta no. 2: I am presently going over previous Newbie lessons. In the "Want to share" vocabulary portion "el titular" is written "el tutilar". I noticed that someone had already mentioned this in the Discussion portion in November. It is December and it is still not corrected. So my question is - do you make corrections to previous material and inform the Newbies?

suz333,

Hola, I think it is all about context.  But to make sure you are clear when speaking you could say: "Déjale una nota a ella".  "Leave a note for her"

Also, to answer your second question, the staff at Spanishpod ask us to use the "Contact Us" which is located at the bottom of every page to report any errors, bugs, problems, suggestions etc..

Thank you very much Kikuyu for your comments. I will use the "Contact Us" in the future. I am still quite new to Spanish Pod and I do not know all the procedures yet.

suz333, thanks so much for catching that error!  It has been corrected.  Sorry for any confusion!

We do our best to keep the content error free, but the occasional error does evade our scrutiny.  If you spot 'em, we'll correct 'em!

que pasa spanishpod.com.  sorry to sound like a broken record, but in Exercise:3, the audio on #2 and #3 don't work.  Thanks again, keep up the good work, hasta luego

minor correction made to PDF