Lesson Introduction
Welcome to the first edition of Pa' que sepas..., your SpanishPod question and answer series. If you have questions for a future Pa' que sepas..., please email them to SpanishPod@gmail.com. Questions answered today: What does Pa' que sepas... mean? How do you pronounce the /y/ and the /ll/? Where should new SpanishPod users start?
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Me encanta, me encanta, me encanta Spanishpod.com - y mis estudiantes en grado siete y ocho en Chester, NH, tambien! Pero, digame, por favor, como escribir accentos y punctuacion en mi computadora, especialmente en comment boxes like this, homeworknow.com, etc.? There must be an easy way! Muchas gracias!
If you are a Window's user it's pretty easy.
1. Open Control Panel, and Regional and Language Options.
2. Select the Language tab, and hit the Details button.
3. Make sure Spanish (Mexico) is one of your installed services, and if it's not, add it.
4. Hit the Language Bar button, and make sure it is shown in the task bar.
Now, whenever you need to type Spanish diacritics, just hit alt+shift to convert your keyboard. Then...
; = ñ
= = ¿
shift+= = ¡
[thena = á
[thene = é
[theni = í
[theno = ó
[thenu = ú
When you're done, hit alt+shift to convert back to an English keyboard.
Thank you Lili.
yo hablo español es mi idoma nativo, es decir el de mi pais de nacimiento, si alguien quiere practicar contactenme si quieren darkzero_lop@hotmail.com
Jonathan25
Algunas correcciones:
Se dice es mi "lengua materna", "lengua nativa", "primera lengua", pero idioma nativo no es correcto.
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hola todos! soy jessica. Soy de Filipinas. Encantada de conocerlos..
Bueanos tardes todos!
Tengo feliz que encuentro este lugar.
Ya aprendo mucho.
Nos vemos pronto, todos!
Besos
Lorraine
Hola Lorraine
Bienvenida a SpanishPod! Si tienes alguna duda por favor escríbenos!
Me encantan con mi buffet de la lección.
hola todos! me llamo shiela. id like to learn alot spanish...........can you help me..?
sí podemos
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I am an retired expat living in the Dominican Republic, my wife and daughter live here with me. My wife is Dominican and my daughter who was born in the States and is ten, is fluent but I can't speak the language that well. I find that the Dominican spanish is very different than spanish is other countries. I guess this is more of a statement than a question.
yayow
Todos los acentos en América Latina son muy diferentes, cada quien tiene su slang y sus modismos, puedes aprender mas de cada cultura en Del Taco al Tango, donde presento shows de diferentes países.
Hola todos, mi nombre es April y soy de Oklahoma. Soy gringa, pero mis suegros son de Mexico y me encanta mucho la lengua espanol. Muchas gracias por estas lecciones, me ayudan tanto.
Por favor ayudame con "por" y "para" porque no entiendo bien las diferencias.
gracias, gracias, gracias
aprilo
Hola. Si yo dijera decir “Para llegar a tú casa pasé por el parque.” ¿Sabrías porque es “para llegar” y “por el parque”?
If I were to say “Para llegar a tú casa pasé por el parque.” , would you know way it is “para llegar” end “por el parque”?
Quizás los enlaces abajo puedan ayudarte.
Maybe the links below can help you.
http://www.lingolex.com/swom/wom-porpara.htm
http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/porpara.htm
http://spanish.about.com/cs/grammar/a/porpara.htm
I take it that the question about the letter "y" was about how to pronounce it when reciting the alphabet in Spanish and not how it is prounced within a word?
Also,I take it that in Northern Mexico where Leo is from it is pronounced pretty much like the word "Yo"..Spanish for "I" ? [I love the sound of that word btw].Does this variation in pronouncing "y" flow into how "yo" is pronounced and other words?
Finally the above introduction has:
"How do you pronounce the /y/ and the /ll/?"
..did I miss something here?..I couldn't catch when /ll/ was discussed.Also,what's the deal with the // around y and ll ? Is that the Spanish equivalent of English's inverted commas [ " ...." ] ?
Cobre,
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trabajos, frutos, obras, creaciones
Gracias, pero no lo entiendo,a causo de solo me juegue.
cobre,
Amongst many other things,on this occasion I was referring to the walware warning and bringing about its removal.Thanks again mate. :)
bababardwan
isn't "ll" pornounced exacly the same as "y"?
stevestr,
Oh right;thanks mate.I didn't realise that.Was I right is surmising // is like inverted commas?
bababardwan I have no ideaif // is commonly used as ""
Bababardwan,
About /-/ --
Linguists use this symbol to describe the sounds (or phonemes) of a particular language. In this case, however, it isn't really being used in a technical sense; it is just meant to indicate that we're talking about the way people pronounce the sounds represented by the symbols 'y' and 'll' in Spanish.
Does that help?
anaa8,
Si,it does help very much.Muchas gracias. :)