Newbie - Where are you from?

hola, me llamo fatema

soy de Egipto

hanabadawy3, ¡Bienvenido a spanishpod!

The ¿ goes at the start of a sentence that is a question. It's there so that the speaker knows from the beggining that the sentence is a question and not a statement. This also applies to sentences of exclamation (¡).

hola !

Que tal.

Tu tiennes El Salvador para tu vida eternal?

Please help me with the verb congugation in the expansion sentence "Soy originaria de Guatemala." It doesn't seem to match any of the forms on a verb conjugation table for originar. ¿Es esto un error?

I have a feeling that I might be developing into a grammar nerd. Soy aficionada a la gramática. ¿Es esta correcta?

Gracias por su ayuda.

jeraldina

without the accent i think its an adjective

Soy de Vietnam ^^

I have a question,

are the syllables "y" or "ll" pronounced like the "y" in the english word "you"?

sometimes i hear they're pronounced like the "j" in the english word "Jessica",

so.. i'm confused, what's the correct way to pronounce the syllables "y" and "ll"?

Thanks,

aabbccc...

pronounce them either way, they are regional variations and many speakers mix and match them in conversation. You will be understood, and if you regularly communicate with a population that uses one or the other predominantly, just conform (or not)

Oh~ I got it!

Muchas gracias!

:)

farehanim

Hola, hace mucho que no te vemos :-)

Hola a todos! Saludos a Turquía, Egipto,Vietnam, Estados Unidos, Londres, Australia...quíen más?

Me llamo Andrew. Soy de China, pero estoy en Korea ahora.

Me gusta el classe.

¡Hola! Soy de Florida en Los Estados Unidos.

Expansion drill #14 should be "Vamos a tu casa." not ", a tu casa."

maaku

Done fixed expansion.

Thanks!

hi guys please i want ask you about the you way you put the exclamation mark or interrogation marks at the begining of sentences

please  would you tell me why we do that

gracias, muchas gracias

please how to say from algeria i'm a newbie

well

hola me del .....

youyou55

I believe, though this is only a theory, that it is because questions in spanish are often indicated by inflection wheras in english there is usually a change of word order that lets you know that a given phrase is a question.  I am late!  v  Am I late?  
In written spanish, because you dont have the auditory clue or the word order clue, you run the risk of reading a long sentence with the wrong expectation unless it is signalled, right up front that this is a question/exclamation. e.g.

es muy importante que siempre se use signos de puntuación correctos en specifico que no se olvide indicar al principio si una oración es una pregunta o un mandato? 

if you read the above thinking it was a statement then hit the question mark at the end you have to stop and rethink the whole thing which is slow and annoying.

Soy de argelia    or     Soy argelino or argelina (if f emale)

Im from Algeria   or    Im Algerian

thanks a lot for your help

i was persuaded by your theory  i beleive you're write

thanks again

muchas gracias

Yo soy Evandar, soy de Fredrikstad, en Noruega. Y ahora, voy a [check out] las páginas de Dialogue y Vocabulary.

Please complete my sentence, someone. +_+

evander

investigar? explorar? examinar? estudiar? :-)

queda a su elección (gracias yenny)

Gracias, donperigo. With a little more thinking, I should've come up with something. :D

evander

its very easy to get locked into the sentence you want to say, i suffer from it a lot , i think the trick is that unless the words come readily to mind just ditch the idea and try to come at it a different way or you will lock up.

actually thinking about it now perhaps you could even have used checar :-)

Ah, yes, "checar" would be the closest to "check out", wouldn't it. So many words to choose from, though. And your suggestion as to how to not lock up is a sound one.

then again, id probably go with investigar because as i understand it checar implies measurement or verification which isnt the meaning of "check out" that  i had in mind.

echarle un vistazo / echar un vistazo.   

To take a look at something or to check out.

yeah Hypersport, I like that too -- echarle un vistazo/cast a glance.

@hypersport 

Darle un vistazo is probably the closest way of saying "check out"

Great job!

MM

Aaj, muchas gracias, todos, por la ayuda. I guess I'll commit "darle un vistazo" to memory.

Hola, Como te wa ?

Yo soy Kelum,  soy de Sri Lanka.......!

It is a beautiful small island in south Asia.

Bienvenidos, kelumkodituwakku. By the way, it's "¿cómo te va?", in case you don't mind me correcting you.  :) Hope you'll like it here!

Hola Kelum

Bienvenido y saludos a Sri Lanka!

Hola, soy de Belgica asi que soy belga.  Naci en una pequeñita ciudad en la frontiera con el Luxemburg. Ahora vivo en Bruselas pero cuando puedo voy a Tenerife porque las olas, asi que España is mas y mas mi secundo pais.

¡Hola! Soy de Nueva York en Los Estados Unidos.

jayjay36

¡Bienvenido a Spanishpod! ¡Aquí te sentirás como en casa!

Hola jayjay36.

Hola Yenny!  Gracias!

Hola northkirra,

Tengo una casa in Rye, NY (mi casa de verano) y una otra casa in Connecticutt.

Ooops.

To write 'the late 90's', should that have been:

'finales de los 90's' and not 'los últimos'. 

??

Yo nací en Georgia y actualmente estoy viviendo ahí .  Pero he viviedo también en Alemania, Utah y Brooklyn.  Desde hace muchos años he recorrido los Estados de Unidos.

(corrections welcome)

cdowis,

En cual cuidad vives?  Tambien vivo en Georgia, solo unos minutos desde Atlanta.

Buenos Dias,

Me llamo es Jade y yo soy Austin, Texas.

English time :0)

I'm fullfilling a life long dream and currently, at least until April, living in Mexic City. Me gusta Mexico!

Learning Spanish is another life long dream....practice practice practive.

Besos

Jade

Saludos a México! ¿En qué parte de México vives?

Welcome to SpanishPod!

Hola Linana,

Gracias.

Me centro, cerca de Coyoacán. Me encanta aquí .... mi calle exacta es Diagonal San Antonio, sabes que? Estoy muy contento de ser parte de español Pod. ¿Algún consejo para el aprendizaje de un languuage nuevo?

Besos

Jade

La mejor manera de aprender un idioma es practicarlo diario! Escucha las lecciones y después usa lo que aprendas.

Me gusta mucho Coyoacán. Ya fuiste a la Casa Azul?