What's Spanish for " :-) "

Oso-the-Bear

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Emoji = emoji

Emoticon = emoticón

TQM = te quiero mucho.

"Mala onda" is literally "bad wave" like a bad wavelength like a bad vibration like bad vibes. Basically not cool.

Not much more to say about these... but if you make it to the bottom there are "emoticonos" from the 1880's!

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Plurals in Spanish

Vosotros is not used in the Americas, and Duolingo focuses on Latin American Spanish. In the Americas any group of plural "yous" is ustedes, e.g., children, your parents, etc.

Also, it would be "vosotros tenéis."

In most Spanish speaking countries, ustedes is used for more than one person regardless of how well you know them.

In Spain, they seem to use mostly vosotros for more than one person most of the time. It may be there are very formal situations in Spain where ustedes would be considered appropriate. Maybe if you were meeting the royal family?

Yeah it's confusing. I don't think it really matters how well you know them. It has to do with it being formal or informal. You would use usted if you're talking to a superior like a teacher or a police officer or someone like that. You may know them well but theyre still formal cuz theyre your superiors. You use vosotros when talking to piers or family you may not know all your piers cuz not all piers are your friends but it's still appropriate to use informal cuz theyre not your superiors. That's the best i can explain it. I hope this helps.

Resources:

Hello fellow language learners!

I just finished the Spanish tree. It took me 795 days.

After some hundred days, I felt Duolingo alone is not enough to learn a language, so I started to search for interesting Spanish material. I thought I would share my favorite podcasts and YouTube-channels with you:

Español con Juan (before named "1001 reasons to learn Spanish")

Video to check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i96hC4fP11o

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/1001reasonstolearnspanishwithus

This is my favorite, and the channel where I spent most time. Juan is entertaining, interesting and have given me many good smiles and laughs. His videos are created to put you "in context", to make them more understandable. 100% Spanish.

Juan has also a podcast with some 200 episodes. I used to listen to an episode almost every day, going to work by car, until they "ran out". Now he is releasing a new episode every 2-3 weeks it seems. https://1001reasonstolearnspanish.com/podcasts/

Dreaming Spanish

Video to check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzK_Dl7d1EQ

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/DreamingSpanish

Well produced videos with "Comprehensible input", sorted in levels - Superbeginner, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced. A lot of fun and also a lot of clever things to learn, all in Spanish.

Spanishland School

A colombian teacher named Andrea, her brother and american boyfriend are talking about various issues. Andrea is a great teacher, I also find her pretty and I'm a little in love with her. :P

https://www.youtube.com/c/SpanishlandSchool

Language Transfer - Complete Spanish

A different experience with a lot of aha-moments. Interesting pedagogy. I have completed about 75% of it and enjoyed it a lot.

https://www.languagetransfer.org/complete-spanish

Another tip: Download a language exchange app

With the mobile apps "Tandem" or "HelloTalk" you can find a native Spanish speaker who wants to learn your native language.

The result? I speak quite descent Spanish now! Sure, I still struggle following a fast conversation between natives, or watching most movies, but having a conversation one to one, works fine most of the time.

Saludos,

Jonas

Someone on Duolingo shared their entire notes doc from Spanish, so here it is:

Duolingo Spanish Lessons.docx - Microsoft Word Online (live.com)

You are free to download it and use it.

THANK YOU, Moonbeam451761!

El

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You should use 'el' because it is an article. So you would say 'el hermoso paisaje' or 'el paisaje hermoso'. This is for the actual sentence that you're interested in, however, you can combine 'lo' in different structure.

' lo más hermoso es ese paisaje' means: the most beautiful thing is the scenery

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But then, "el más hermoso es ese paisaje" is also possible: "the most beautiful one is that landscape"

Jokes:

Dictionaries:

SpanishDict

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Ditto, though WordReference.com is a very close 2nd

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I find it helpful to use more than one. I use WordReference most often, but SpanishDict has information that WordReference does not. I've also used Collins and Cambridge English Dictionary (with translations).

In addition, I have various paper dictionaries that I've picked up. Some of those are Spanish only.

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University of Chicago. Hardbound is best, but they make a decent paperback version as well. I have a beat-up copy that went with me on may trips through Latin America in the 1990s. It doesn't get much respect nowadays, and sits on a shelf collecting dust.

For an on-line version, I like The Cambridge Dictionary. Although I find myself using RAE more and more lately because I prefer to see Spanish words defined in Spanish. I think that the sooner you can get beyond a dual-language dictionary and go straight to a single language dictionary, the sooner you will be able to have a taste of fluency, at least a fleeting, momentary taste of it.

For conjugation tables I like Reverso. For pronunciation I like Forvo. In fact, between the two of those, I rarely have the need for any other source. At least for major languages. For minor ones I have to look elsewhere.

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I like Collins better. It’s like a real dictionary with lots of examples, e.g.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/spanish-english/coger

Spanishdict, I don’t like, because it doesn’t work if you use add blocker.

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If you can understand definitions all in Spanish, RAE is a good source for continental Spanish. WordReference will indicate if a particular word is used in one country/region more than others. For example:

• https://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=coger

• https://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=waiter

• https://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=juice

Resources:

Hello fellow language lovers,

I would like to share with you this Youtube Channel that teaches Spanish through shows and movies.

In this video they teach Spanish with a Spiderman movie

Here's the link if you want to check it out :)

https://youtu.be/258VlYpfyKU

Spanish Fairy Tales and Fables

Duolingo Spanish Stories, Deleted and Otherwise:

Duolingo Stories - Spanish : for access to removed stories - Archived from Duolingo Forums - duolingo forum @ duome.eu This has all of the stories, period, and their level

Magyar Bagoly: Removed Spanish stories This just has the deleted stories, and I'm pretty sure they're all of the same stories, but it works as well.

Resources

http://pastebin.com/UjkfE3qk

http://i.imgur.com/ull6j.jpg [Spanish Cheat Sheet] [Best site for Spanish!!!] http://www.studyspanish.com/ http://www.notesinspanish.com/ http://www.duolingo.com/ http://www.spanishpod101.com/ http://www.thespanishexperiment.com/ http://www.spanish-sentences.com/ http://bib.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/02584060888025139754480/p0000001.htm#I_0_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Spanish http://radiolingua.com/shows/spanish/coffee-break-spanish/ http://radiolingua.com/shows/spanish/newstimespanish/ http://www.tellittomewalking.com/50-and-counting-free-online-resources-to-get-you-started-learning-spanish-right-now/ http://www.spanishdict.com/m

-r3db1rd0001

Here are some more. [edit: Copy/Paste the whole link where appropriate]

www.forvo.com -- Hear any word pronounced by a native speaker. www.spanishdict.com/conjugation www.conjugation.org -- ^Verb conjugations galore howlearnspanish.com/2010/08/list-of-best-sites-to-watch-spanish-tv/?awt_l=9uZnwawt_m=3vPCBTJaTmiaZHM -- Huge list of online Spanish TV from several different countries www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/ -- Tons of free videos, newscasts, radio broadcasts, lessons, etc. http://www.childrenslibrary.org/icdl/SimpleSearchCategory?ids=pnum=1cnum=1text=lang=Englishlangid=61 -- 168 free online children's books in Spanish! howlearnspanish.com -- -- This guy's blog. Sign up for a free e-mail with a huge(r) list of different resources (some of which I've listed above). Although he does push his book, he doesn't spam you. youtu.be/d0yGdNEWdn0 -- TEDx Talk: How to learn any language in six months (introduces topic with learning faster in general)

-moramajama

What about http://www.memrise.com

-dbryant1000

Hey! I just wanted to leave a few things I learned in my high school Spanish class. 1- Adios is only used when saying goodbye for a long time, use hasta lavista or hasta pronto other wise 2- Lo siento is only used as a very serious apology, use perdon for little things.

Hope these helped somehow! I love learning spanish!

-QemilyBradTRASH

My notes:

If you need immediate help, but don't know how to ask for it, or how to say the word, just irrationally scream. Tone is universal, if someone is hurt, badly, you can probably say something in Māori, but people will understand you're afraid and something is wrong. Or, ya know, you can just scream.