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 Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:12 pm
Eccentric Iconoclast I wouldn't actually call them verbs done to oneself; they aren't always really done to oneself. It's just that they're not done to anything other than oneself. Reflexives are, as far as I can tell, a rather irregular subset of intransitives. smile That's right, I guess, 'cause you can say something like 'irse' which is like "to go away," but in a more permanent sense. You can also say something like "me opero," which doesn't mean, "I operate upon myself," but, "I'm having an operation done upon myself," somewhat. That's what I hear from my Spanish teacher.
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:39 am
In spanish we have many ways to conjugate verbs that for foregeins might sound odd, like those you've said: "despertarse" - to wake up; "me opero" - to have a surgery done upon...
And sometimes it becomes hard to explain in a sensible way why we speak like that. It's awfully funny! lol
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:38 am
CreatorVonDark In spanish we have many ways to conjugate verbs that for foregeins might sound odd, like those you've said: "despertarse" - to wake up; "me opero" - to have a surgery done upon... And sometimes it becomes hard to explain in a sensible way why we speak like that. It's awfully funny! lol I think the same way xd you'll get used with practice, like a japanese teacher said to a friend "is this way because it is! don't ask why" xd (I think because he didn't know either why it was in that way whatever he was explaining)
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:47 pm
como se dice "cornucopia" en espanol?
cuz i just realized i dont know
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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:34 am
Nice anecdote: I'm form Holland, but we've had some family come over from Brazil for half a year. Since then I'm not able to say 'What?' anymore, I always say '¿Que?'.
Now, here's the nice anecdote: Last summer, we we're on vacation on the island of Tenerife. Me and my cousin we're in a store and the girl who worked there asked me something in Spanish, ofcourse, I didn't know what she said, but I said '¿Que?', and she started over eek . I said I didn't speak Spanish, walked away and almost wet my pants.
That was it. Have fun smile
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:40 am
Tengo una problema:
When I'm writing/typing in Spanish, or I can see what I'm about to say I can do fine but when I have to talk to people other than my sister I can't just freely chat off the top of my head. I have to fish for words and remember what I'm saying and how to say it. I also have trouble rolling r's in a regular conversation when I'm talking to people other than my sister. I CAN roll r's and I have always been able to do it but when I speak in class it always comes out sounding like a d.
How can a visual person like me speak without sounding like an idiot? And what about the whole r thing? does anyone have issues with that?
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:39 pm
I''l just say "with practice" sweatdrop sorry for not being useful... but that happens to me in french, and when I was at france last year, after a week, I started thinking in french. That's what my french teacher told me "start thinking in the language you are speaking, don't think in your own language and translate"
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:30 am
Does anyone on here speak the Galician dialect? ~__~
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:59 pm
Kalathma Does anyone on here speak the Galician dialect? ~__~ It's a separate language my dear and it has it's own dialects.
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 2:19 pm
Koko.Dk Kalathma Does anyone on here speak the Galician dialect? ~__~ It's a separate language my dear and it has it's own dialects. That it is. It's much more similar to Portuguese than to Spanish, actually.
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Eccentric Iconoclast Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 6:56 pm
MaverickAsuma como se dice "cornucopia" en espanol? cuz i just realized i dont know
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:34 am
Eccentric Iconoclast Koko.Dk Kalathma Does anyone on here speak the Galician dialect? ~__~ It's a separate language my dear and it has it's own dialects. That it is. It's much more similar to Portuguese than to Spanish, actually. it's like a combination of both, portuguese sounds like medieval spanish. My father told me that if you speake spanish and stay in Galicia for.. like 3 days, you start to understand galician pretty well
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:29 pm
Koko.Dk Kalathma Does anyone on here speak the Galician dialect? ~__~ It's a separate language my dear and it has it's own dialects. Eh, on the website I found information on it, it said it's a dialect of Spanish but I kind of merely skimmed the article so I was obviously wrong and mis-read. redface
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:32 am
Kalathma Koko.Dk Kalathma Does anyone on here speak the Galician dialect? ~__~ It's a separate language my dear and it has it's own dialects. Eh, on the website I found information on it, it said it's a dialect of Spanish but I kind of merely skimmed the article so I was obviously wrong and mis-read. redface it's a roman language just like spanish, portuguese, italian, french, romanian, dalmatian, the language of flandes (I don't know how do you say "flamenco" in english), among others
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:32 pm
Hitomi_Kanzaki_chan Kalathma Koko.Dk Kalathma Does anyone on here speak the Galician dialect? ~__~ It's a separate language my dear and it has it's own dialects. Eh, on the website I found information on it, it said it's a dialect of Spanish but I kind of merely skimmed the article so I was obviously wrong and mis-read. redface it's a roman ce language just like spanish, portuguese, italian, french, romanian, dalmatian, the language of flandes (I don't know how do you say "flamenco" in english), among others
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