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marco, I'm afraid I'm not as proficient in Spanish as you, hence I have problems understanding just what you said. I could throw it into an online translator, but on the advice of JP, I've decided to stay away from them as much as possible. So if you could repeat what you said in English?

As for the exercises and audio reviews, quite a few of them have errors. I've only checked the early material so far, I don't know if later lessons are free of these annoyances.

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Hi Evandar, oh no I'm not good at all in spanish :-) I try to write as less as possible english here because I want to communicate as much as I can in spanish even if it's full of mistakes and if it looks foolish or a bit messy (I should put a disclaimer end of my messages "don't read me unless you know what's spanish and what's not" !). this because usually a (pretty) teacher is correcting me the day after and it helps me structuring my phrases. I'm french speaking and I was saying that being born in Belgium (like I am) is a biological mistake because I was supposed to be born in Tenerife (Island) instead, and going there every single time I can (when I have funds, it means). Have a nice afternoon and thanks for the comment ! Marco

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Olvide decir que la foto del episodio aqui con el muro azul y las chicas sonriendo es super. Marco

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Wow! Was that Yenny helping out in this dialog (#0004) or was that another Cuban? This was pre Esti, no?

¡Wow! ¿Fue qué Yenny que ayudarles en este diálogo (# 0004) o fue una otra cubana? Esto fue antes de Esti, ¿no?

Here is a sentence from the newspaper:

Tres de cada cuatro indígenas guatemaltecos son analfabetos, según la ONU.

Three of every four indigenous Guatemalans are illiterate, according to the UN.

About half the population there are indegenous people, the Maya.

JP translated de as from (de México) it also means of.

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haha, it's funny how much enemigo from the supplementary vocab sounds like "an amigo" to a noob like myself [even though it does sound like the English "enemy"..but hey, I'm trying to think in Spanish]. I can imagine someone telling me I'm their "enemigo" and me thinking they were calling me one of their amigos. Oh yeah, you're my amigo too :)

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Yo soy australiano

¿ok, well australiano is obviously the official word, but following on from above, is there any slang way or other shortened way to say it....for example the equivalent of Aussie?

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Hola.

No hay una manera de decirlo de una manera corta. Podrías decir soy Aussie pero es un anglicismo.

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Gracias Lili, yo entiendo

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I know John was kinda joking when he said to Mexicobob "You trying to scare the Newbies?" but as a newbie I'd just say I love those kind of posts. That one was particularly interesting.

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oh, a great gold nugget in this discussion. I have known of wordreference for quite some time now, but never used it much at all and not gotten around to checking out it's features. I've recently been wondering how to look up all the different conjugations of verbs esp for the various tenses, and thanks to cobre above I have now discovered the conjugation button in wordreference. Gracias, gracias cobre. :)

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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.