Not pathetic at all. We only have Spanish TV too and love Alta Tension, Money Money and Pasa Palabra for the same reason. For a good laugh about the inconsistency of translations watch Red Dwarf in English with Spanish sub-titles it is amazing.


Rosemary

Yeah!!! Another quiz fan woo hoo!!
Thanks I will check out the red Dwarf

Hola!Felicidades! Brisca, you're a star! Vamos a fiesta!
Well done to everybody. I think the important point is to talk. The writing can come later, but it can be helped along by reading in spanish.
Carol

Sorry, I should not have posted on this thread. You are now linked with us even if it through liking quizzes.............our user name has been well earned over many years and is not whimsical so maybe you now need to issue a disclaimer!!!!!!!

Rosemary

Hi there cafeconleche

Thank you for your kind words.
I'd really recommend the book; and it doesn't matter what speed you work through it - it all helps with the learning process.
Go for it; give it a go

We also only have Spanish TV, but I must admit that we hardly watch it.
However when we do, it's for the quiz programmes and the news - because they're by far the easiest to understand (and I can't bear to watch badly dubbed series!!)

It sounds like you're making the most of all the opportunities that you get, to improve your language skills..........so you're several steps ahead of an awful lot of Brits who live in, or visit Spain!

Thank you for your message Suzanne

I know exactly what your daughter meant about both wanting - and not wanting - the book to end!
I didn't cry, but I was left with a terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach.
I had realised how the story was going to end

The beauty of the book was that several expressions were repeated throughout it, so they became very familiar.
It was very cleverly written.

Good luck with your impending move
Where are you moving to?
Don't worry about the language. The more you practice "in situ", the quicker you learn (and more importantly, you remember it!)

Thank you Carol

I think you're absolutely right. The most important thing is to talk; but reading newspapers, magazines and books can really help to "plant" the words more firmly in one's head.
It's interesting to see something that can sound like a phrase, when written is actually just all one word!
Seeing something in print somehow helps the brain to retain the information (depending on your learning style, I suppose?)

Poco a poco, as they say

Hi Rosemary

I used to really enjoy Red Dwarf too!
I didn't see it from the beginning, but the episodes I did catch were thoroughly entertaining

Was that the series that generated the expression "I've got a pain in my left diode!!?"
My brother used to go around saying it all the time when he was about 14!
He drove us barmy!!

(It might have been "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy?? )
That's a series I never got into.

Hi Brisca, We're moving to Benissa, hopefully a good mix of people around there and plenty of places to take the dogs for a run. Fitten me up!

I must admit I had no idea where Benissa was.................but I've just "Googled" it, and it sounds lovely

The very best of luck to you, your family and the dogs with the move.

All the best,
Sam.

Hello Brisca
Don't worry about speaking Spanish slowly, you can not speak in Spanish as quick as you speak in English, above all in the beginning. Don't worry if you make mistakes because understanding each other is the most important. Your Spanish will be better day by day without you are conscious of it. I make a lot of mistakes in English but i keep on writing and i hope you all can understand me, at least the idea i try to say.
Listening to music can help you very much. I used to listen to the Beatles, their songs helped me a lot. When you hear a sentence over and over again you finish learning it by memory and you can say it without thinking and when you say something so good it makes you feel better and more confidence

Thank you for that lovely reply marisol
I would send you karma, but I've already done that on another thread - so it won't let me!

Your English is EXCELLENT; you have nothing to worry about

I will try to relax a bit about my feelings of frustration, because I realise that it's more difficult to learn whilst feeling tense!
I am pleased with how much I can generally understand (I even get some jokes if they're explained slowly enough!)

That's a good idea about listening to music.
One of my Spanish friends said she learnt a lot of her English by listening to Michael Jackson!!
I can now pick out some lines in the chorus of different pop songs, and can sing along a little bit at Fiestas!

Have you lived in England at all?
Do you get to speak English on a regular basis at the moment?

Thanks again for your encouragement; I'll keep trying!
Sam.

Hello Brisca,
First of all, thank you very much for you karma. I had only 4 little square under my name and now i have so much... thank you and jdr and Crispy.
Don't you think my English is so good, i use the dictionary a lot of times. When i try to speak everything is different. I have been to Boston, i spent there three months, but i am studying English since i was 5, at school, you know. My pronunciation is so bad that if you hear me you can't know in what language i am talking
I am sure you Spanish is excellent. As much as you know the more you realize the little you know. I can remember, when i hardly know the elementary English, i felt as if i knew everything, i thought "ok, i already know how to speak English, i can say whatever i want" but, once my English was improving i realized i didn't know anything.
I think singer-songwriter as "Sabina" can help you with your Spanish. He uses a lot of Spanish idioms and the language he uses is very colloquial.

Hello Brisca,
First of all, thank you very much for your karma. I had only 4 little square under my name and now i have so much... thank you and jdr and Crispy.
Don't you think my English is so good, i use the dictionary a lot of times. When i try to speak everything is different. I have been to Boston, i spent there three months, but i am studying English since i was 5, at school, you know. My pronunciation is so bad that if you hear me you can't know in what language i am talking
I am sure your Spanish is excellent. As much as you know the more you realize the little you know. I can remember, when i hardly know the elementary English, i felt as if i knew everything, i thought "ok, i already know how to speak English, i can say whatever i want" but, once my English was improving i realized i didn't know anything.
I think singer-songwriter as "Sabina" can help you with your Spanish. He uses a lot of Spanish idioms and the language he uses is very colloquial.

I have read it again and i hadn't written the "r" in your, sorry.

Brisca, Brilliant, just brilliant. Well done. I too have karma'd you (or I tried but computer said NO)

My spanish is a little bit rusty though, Translated I make the title out to be "A little wind in my pygamas made me smile"
Is that an over 18's book then