Newbie - The concert

The question of the day:

¿Cuál ha sido su concierto favorito?

Which has been your favorite concert?

Yo he ido a varios pero de mis favoritos fue Jamiroquai en Paris y Flans un grupo de mexicano, fui cuando tenía 14 años! jajajaja!

Pero me gustaría ir al concierto del mariachi en Guadalajara, ver a U2 o a Madonna.

I have been to a few but one of my favorites were Jamiroquai in Paris and Flans a Mexican group, I went when I was 14 years old! hahahah

But I would like to see the mariachi concert in Guadalajara, see U2 or Madonna!

No puedo decidir cual fue mi concierto favorito, pero los mejores en mi vida fueron Megadeth, Nightwish y The black dahlia murder. Me gustaria ir a un concierto de Enrique Bunbury, Dream Theater o Lamb of God. Tambien hubo un concierto de una banda ecuatoriana llamada Sal y Mileto que realizaron por el regreso de la banda a los escenarios y fue excelente.. En el de Megadeth, la banda hizo un encore de alrededor de una hora.. fue increible!

Hace muchos áños, fuí a ver "The grateful dead" al Hammersmith Odeon aunque estaba casi muerto con la gripe y estaba temblando y estornudando.

Many years ago, I went to see The Grateful Dead at the Hammersmith Odeon. I was almost dead with the flu and was shivering and sneezing.

El concierto era super atestado porque es solo una cine pequena. aunque no podía mover por la gente  el concierto fue maravilloso. al final, yo estaba calado y debil pero hubo un milagro,

 the concert was super crowded because it is only a small cinema. Although I could not move because of the  people the concert was wonderful. At the end, I was soaking wet and weak but there was a miracle,

  gracias a el poder de san Gerry (o quizas un temperatura casi fatal)ya no tuve la gripe. es posible que Yo hubiera empezado un brote de la gripe en londres

 thanks to the power of Saint Gerry (or perhaps a near-fatal bodytemperature) I no longer had the flu. although I may have started an outbreak in london

A mi, me encanta el concierto de una banda se llama " bond". Es una banda con 4 mujeres, ellas son cuarteto y tocan los instrumentos musicales de cuerda - violin, cello, y viola. Ellas son talentosas y tambien bonitas!

El mejor concierto de mi vida fue en la playa de Cruzita, en la costa Ecuatoriana.  Allí se presento una banda en la arena, rodeado de autos con las luces prendidas para iluminarles.  Hubo una fogata en el medio y fue increíble!  Tocaron muy bien y canciones que todos nos gustaba!  Fue algo muy bohemio.

MM

Hi

I'm a bit confused about the construction "Al de" in the phrase "Al de la banda del pueblo en la plaza".

It translates literally to something like 'to the of the..".

It probably doesn't mean that.

I'm presuming it's some form of "block expression".

Any ideas ?

Tks

Dave

dave 128

kudos, i do believe you got it ;-)

to the one (el concierto) of the band of the people in the plaza

dave128

you can probably even think of the el as him.

Quite often in english I will say things like "lets have a look at him" , "hes going to cost you x ", "ooh shes a beauty" etc. when speaking of inanimate objects and i suspect that this affectation has its roots in the practice of referring to things by their gramatic gender.

"English as she is spoke" may sound funny but its mostly to do with the verb being in the wrong tense. the "she" sounds somewhat more poetic than "it" but we can still understand that english is the subject

although now my morning cofee has kicked in i can see that el is an article not the pronoun él so im talking twaddle. as you were, its a the, a male the but a the nontheless

re the missing "one" check out this lesson

 Siempro digo "cuál" sin la "a".  ¿Esta incorrecto ? 

Y Puedo decir "tambien sin "a mi", ¿verdad"?

Tks DonP

Dave

Bye the way, for those living in the US [ and possibly elsewhere ], there is a great Spanish learning "tool" that has just appeared at the check-out desk of most supermarkets.

It is a magazine tribute to Shakira, the Colombian cantante.

It is completely bi-lingual and has the english and spanish text side-by-side. It has the preterite, the imperfect, double object pronouns, the subjunctive [ in a zillion forms ], the imperative, idioms  etc etc.

I strongly recommend it to anyone learning spanish.

Only costs a few bucks.

Dave

rodneyp

 "cuál" sin la "a"  o   con ¨a¨

Sólo depende de cuándo se usa.Es esta lección ,si te fijas en el diálogo vemos que dicen: ¿Vas al concierto..? al = a + el,

¿Vas al concierto?/ ¿A cuál vas?/ ir a..

Te doy otro diálogo de ejemplo ,donde no se usa ninguna preposición delante de cuál:

A: ¿Tienes mi libro?

B: ¿Cuál?

A:El libro de español.

Thanks Yenny!

Dave, what's the name of the magazine?

Hi Rodney

It is called "Shakira - Special Issue", and is a special issue of "TVyNovelas" magazine.

If you get a copy, let me know what you think.

Bye the way check out McGraw-Hill's series of books - "Side by Side" Bilingual Books.

They have Spanish on one page, English on the opposite page.

I'm reading "Historias de México" [ Stories From Mexico ] just now. Costs about 12 bucks. My reading skills have jumped up dramatically over the last three weeks, and I can now understand about 75% - 80% of what I read in Spanish language newspapers.

I also put on the closed captioning on the TV and watch one hour of Telenovelas each night.

I keep one episode [ it can be any one ] on the recorder for a week. One day I look at the closed captioning. The next day, I put it off [ same episode ] and try to understand what they are saying. It has been a huge help.

Haven't started on writing skills yet.

Dave