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Hola Todas. Me llamo Sabrina. Soy de Victoria, British Columbia en Canada. Victoria es en una island llamado Vancouver Island. Me gusta espanol pero muy mal con grammar. Me muchas gusta this site! Gracias todos to all that write in as I learn from your comentario. Y gracias especialmente a Liliana y JP!
Dear brinita, ¡Bienvenida a Spanishpod!
Soy Jodi, y mi apodo es Jodibean. Acabo de busqué qué mi nombre traducir a algo muy mal en español. Por eso, olvidas qué te dije mi nombre, jaja. Quizá diré me llamar Moana, lo que es mi segundo nombre.
Bombon es una palabra linda. ¡Ya la me gusta!
Hola Estibalitz. ¿Que tal?
Hola brinita, yo estoy muy bien, y ¿tú qué tal estás?
Hola Estibalitz. Muy bien gracias. Estoy aprendiendo mucho español de este sitio. Es mi favorito sitio. Estoy leyendo mucho los libros de espanol de la biblioteca. Quiero voy a Mexico aproxima ano.
Me llamo Krystyna y mi apellido es Bednarczyk. Mis parientes me llaman Krysia pero mis amigas me llaman little Polish girl (una chiquita de polonia)??
Can anyone clarify for me how to say that correctly?
Hi krystyna
polish girl = polaca
little polish girl = polacita?
donperigo, creo que debes conservar el son duro que la ce tiene en polaca.
polaca (polaka)
polaquita (polakita)
Fabrizio
por supuesto, Estoy de acuerdo contigo
Polaquita.
¡Hola todos !
¿Qué tal ? Me llamo Veronica. Yo soy de Mauricio. Mi apodo es ‘Ninic’- ever since I was a kid. Hihi!
¡saludos!
P.S: if i want to ask :’how are you (all)?’, is ‘¿que tal?’ appropriate?
Gracias!
Qué may = "What" Oxford pocket spanish dictionary says that is a pronoun.
I never thought of "what" as a pronoun it always seemed so active, moving, searching, dang it had to be some sort of verb or something. . .
Pronoun, a generic name for something.
this one for something not known.
me llamo khin, traducir en spanish es amistad y en igles es friendship. me alegro por tener la nombre.jaja!!
hola!
Yo soy azreen!
Yo soy de Malaysia!!
I'm i right?*
azreencomel
very nearly :-) te llamas azreen
now then... wordreference gives two different spellings for Malaysia in spanish
malasia = for west malaysia
malaisia = for east malaysia
wikipedia makes no distinction between the two spellings and uses "malasia" which also gets a lot more hits on google.
deperingo!!
Hola!
gracias!
azreencomel
de nada
y yo, me llamo DonPerigo no deperingo
:-)
what does jajajaja mean
it means: "hahahaha", i.e. laughter. :)
Lesaley,
It is due to the fact that the sound of the letter "j" in Spanish is the same as the sound of the letter "h" in English
Se debe a que el sonido de la letra "j" en español es lo mismo del sonido de la letra "h" en Inglés
http://spanishpod.com/resources/pronunciation
h is silent in Spanish and the crossed out English above is meaning that is carried by the verb in Spanish. (you will get used to it)
Check out the video on pronouns
cobre and lesaley,
I would think that the Spanish "j" is more like the Scottish "ch" in "loch" or the German "ch" in "Achtung".
It's actually difficult to distinguish it from an English "h" in the recording of "Julián" on http://spanishpod.com/resources/pronunciation but I think that's only because the sound is pronounced very briefly. It's easier to identify the sound in the recording of J ("jota") in the same line.
hola me llama shafa... soy de Maldives. hablo un poquito^_^
Hola Shafa!
Bienvenido a SpanishPod!
what if I want to include my middle name?
for example "my name is miguel rotonda segura"
can I say.. "mi nombre es miguel segura de rotonda"?
Is this right?
please i need more help in spanish but i don't have enough money
mgadesseh,
at the newbie level there is all sorts of help, and the basic subscription here is pretty inexpensive.
Everybody wants to hook students into their system, and since most new students are newbies the basics have a lot of free coverage. Do a search.
read in the free dictionaries on line (wikipedia, wordreference, etc. Here is a thread that discusses resources available on the web, some free, some not.) , play with the translators (google babelfish . . ) compare their results to what the dictionary examples show. (the translators are usually wrong in some aspect, words out of context, nouns where you meant a verb, or an adjective, or vise versa.)
I kinda like the folks here, but hearing other voices and other approaches makes for new wiring in the neurons.
My worst problem is time. This is addicting. (oh well, back to work.)
¡Hola!
If ¿cómo te llamas? is for the informal tú, how does the grammar change when used with the formal usted please?
Gracias,
Al
al_walker
¿cómo te llamas? - tu
¿cómo se llama? - usted
¡Gracias!
Thinking about it...
Do the informal "Tú" and formal "Usted" get used the same way as the French "Tu" and "Vous", only using "Tú" with people you're already familiar with (and would therefore already know their names)?
If so when could you use ¿Cómo te llamas? ? Would it be at informal social occasions (perhaps with your peer group or with younger people than you) rather than a business or formal social event?
Gracias,
Al
Al_walker
I don’t know French, but I think your understand of tu verse usted is exactly correct. The only thing that I would like to add is that their use varies from place to place. For example, I think if two people in Spain, who are about the same age, met in an informal place, like at a party, they would probably use tu (especially if the were young). In El Salvador many friends use usted.
Hola todos!
Me llamo Johanne. Me appellido es Lambert. Mis amigas y amigos y ninos y ninas llamo me JoJo.
Me le gusta JoJo!
¡Hola Johanne! Otra vez unas correciones: Once more some corrections:
Me llamo Johanne. Mi apellido es Lambert. Mis amigos y niños me llaman Jojo. Me gusta (el nombre) JoJo.
Hola JoJo
Im glad martinillio replied before me cos he knows his stuff but heres my 2d'orth for good measure cos ive typed it now.
with me le gusta, are you saying..it pleases me (i like it)?
as i understand things...
gusta, = he/she/it/usted pleases
i.e. it already includes the information about who is doing the pleasing so you dont need an additional subject pronoun like we do in english.
I speak = yo hablo, but the Yo, as you know, is superfluous because the hablo already tells us who is speaking, (plus we can see your lips moving)
"Le" is the wrong sort of object type (indirect??)to be the thing that is "doing" the verb it can only be the thing thats having the verb done to it.
therefore, in gustar constructions like "creo que le gusta", the thing directly before the conjugated verb gustar is the thing that is being pleasured not the thing doing the pleasing.
so le gusta? can mean.. does (he she it Ud) please (him her sir madam)?"
and me gusta = it pleases me = i like it
jope this jelps,
Hola, me IIamo Kelum. from Sri Lanka.
Hola Kelum de Sri Lanka, encantado.
Hola a todos! Me llamo Gala y soy de Rusia. Mi apellido es Romanova. Es un apellido de la denastia ultima de reys en Rusia!
Hola Kelum de Sri Lanka y Gala Romanova!
Hola chicos! Suerte en sus lecciones, Me llamo Michelle y soy de Mexico, mis amigos me llaman Michi.
no dejen de practicar, es un idioma facil de pronunciar!!!
cannot connect to the dialogue ,only hear the MP3
the fee for lesson might be a little bit expensive
i only got 1200rmb per month ...
I have been to some Spanish classes and we were taught to say "Igualmente" in response to "Mucho Gusto". It seems that encantada/o or mucho gusto is used more. Es verdad?
¡Hola todos! Me llama Ratbag, o RB, o Rata jajaja
No me llama "ratbagoz"
Hola, Me llama Donna.
Hola a todos!
i have a question here.
Why in the world they add something in the end of "llamar"?? Some sort of "se" or whatever!
"llamar-se" or what??
Another question.
Why they pronounce "yo" differently?
Like "jo" and like "yo".
Thank you.