Teach me your language I teach you mine

[LaBellaVita]

Estonian:

Hallo- Tere
Love- Armastus
Fashion- Mood
good morning- Tere hommikust

 

[Bluestar07]

*Sigh* Spanish is really confusing As if irregular verbs aren't enough to kill me....

[FONT=HELVETICA,VERDANA,ARIAL]"With some verbs, the stem also changes when you conjugate them. In the present tense, there are three groups of stem-changing verbs:[/FONT][FONT=HELVETICA,VERDANA,ARIAL]
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[FONT=HELVETICA,VERDANA,ARIAL][/FONT]o:ue
e:ie
e:i

How do you know which verbs are stem changing ones?

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[evisu donna]

^If you don't know the verb, you can't know if it's a stem changing one, so you'll have to look it up in a dictionary or so

 

[Tess]

^yo hablo
what would you like to learn...

Great I woud like to learn some basic words, words you often use..

Yes
No
Thank you
I like you
What's up?
How are you?
What are you doing today?
How was your weekend?

etc..

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

^Spanish (for Tess )

Yes- Si
No- No
Thank You- Gracias
I like you- Me gustas.
What's up?- Que pasa?
How are you?- Como estas?
What are you doing today?- Que estas haciendo hoy?
How was your weekend?- Como estuvo tu fin de semana?

 

[Tess]

thank you so much I'm going to impress my mexicans friends now!!

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

No problem. Anything else, just ask

 

[stersita]

o:ue
e:ie
e:i
How do you know which verbs are stem changing ones?

I don't get this

 

[Ariez]

^Por ejemplo...
El verbo Entender...las conjugaciones son:
Entiendo
Entiendes
etc....

the 'e' changes to "ie" so he gets confused and doesn't know which verbs have stem-changes.

 

[stersita]

Ohhhhh! I guess you just have to learn them then

 

[Pashen'ka]

Not to sound like showing off, but that doesn't sound too difficult...

...at least, not if compared with russian! There the verbs (and almost every single bloody word) change so often that one could start thinking that they change alongside with air humidity...

 

[Royal-Galliano]

^ Yeah I had no problems with this either... When I compare it with, eh, German...

 

[Hye Park Lover]

Don't know what you guys are talking about, but I just want to chime in...

... And also when compared to Japanese!

 

[Bluestar07]

^ Is Japanese close to Mandarin ...cos I NEVER got Mandarin

^Por ejemplo...
El verbo Entender...las conjugaciones son:
Entiendo
Entiendes
etc....

the 'e' changes to "ie" so he gets confused and doesn't know which verbs have stem-changes.

Exactamente..... except I am a "she"

So there isn't like a comprehensive list of such verbs? And I'm only on the indicative present .....

Pasha you're such a linguist, no one else can compare with you!

R_G I now have no intention EVER to learn German! Russian either!

I subscribe to this "Word of the Day" thing and today's word is 'Erizo". Of all the things they choose to send, they send me the word for hedgehog???

 

[stersita]

^ Who knows when you'll need that word!

 

[Pashen'ka]

^^

 

[Bluestar07]

^^ Knowing my luck, I'd probably meet a hedgehog sometime tomorrow ...

Today, I learnt "negation" ...

[FONT=HELVETICA,VERDANA,ARIAL] The negative words can be used alone, preceding the verb.

• Nadie habla.
  Nobody speaks.

[/FONT]Okay, I get that ... then...

[FONT=HELVETICA,VERDANA,ARIAL] The negative words can also be used with the word "no," following the verb. Note that unlike English, double negatives are acceptable in Spanish.

• No habla nadie.
  Nobody speaks

[/FONT]Oooh double negatives ..still okay but I'm thinking if one is enough, why two? But then ....

[FONT=HELVETICA,VERDANA,ARIAL] Sometimes, three negative words occur in the same sentence.

[/FONT][FONT=HELVETICA,VERDANA,ARIAL] You can even have four negative words in the same sentence.



I'm learning this on my own by the way so I have no teachers to ask.
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[Pashen'ka]

^ It's the same in russian, i.e. "net nichego" (= literally "not nothing", but it means "nothing at all"), or to translate the same sentence you posted, "Nikto ne govorit nichego" (3 negations to say that nobody says anything...)

 

[Ariez]

Exactamente..... except I am a "she"

Lo siento!

Spanish isn't my first language but I grew up around puerto-ricans and dominicans so I never really thought about conjugation and all of that other stuff until they started teaching it in school. It confused me a bit but after a while I got the hang of it. My spanish teacher always got mad at me because I would use puerto-rican "slang terms" and I had to speak "correct" spanish (she was from madrid so apparently Spaniards speak the best spanish on earth )
hehe no offense to anyone but this woman picked on me constantly

 

[Royal-Galliano]