translation please.
Nov 11th 2009, 1:24 pm
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Re: translation please.
It gave me a C1.4, but I wish it would say at the end where I had made mistakes rather than just giving the result. Still, it was only for a bit of fun.
Totally understand what you are saying about saying strange things in your native language!. I do the same in English sometimes. For example, it sounds absolutely ok to me to say things like "we are 4 people" (somos cuatro) instead of "there are four of us".
Little by little I lose the ability to speak English correctly simply because "it sounds right", and I increasingly have to think about the grammar rules and apply them when speaking.
Oh, and the spelling of words that are similar in English and Spanish has become a bit of a nightmare. Posible - one 'S' or two? Or I write 'champeon' instead of 'champion', etc, etc. It's all becoming a big blur!!!!
Totally understand what you are saying about saying strange things in your native language!. I do the same in English sometimes. For example, it sounds absolutely ok to me to say things like "we are 4 people" (somos cuatro) instead of "there are four of us".
Little by little I lose the ability to speak English correctly simply because "it sounds right", and I increasingly have to think about the grammar rules and apply them when speaking.
Oh, and the spelling of words that are similar in English and Spanish has become a bit of a nightmare. Posible - one 'S' or two? Or I write 'champeon' instead of 'champion', etc, etc. It's all becoming a big blur!!!!
I am doing the same in English, the other day we went to see some English friends and I said that the "table of cheeses" looked good, and they asked us if we wanted a "cup of wine".
The confusion is spreading like swine flue.
There was a thread on this forum about fluent and bilingual and what it meant.
NEW DEFINITION. Bilingual = being a bit thick in 2 languages.
Last edited by JLFS; Nov 11th 2009 at 1:25 pm. Reason: spelling
Nov 11th 2009, 3:21 pm
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Your Kidding, right.
I guess today we found out who is learning Castellano.
I guess today we found out who is learning Castellano.
Nov 11th 2009, 6:20 pm
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You cannot learn a language without knowing your own first.
I`m not currently interested in learning another language.
Or I`m just another illeterate Brit.
I`m not currently interested in learning another language.
Or I`m just another illeterate Brit.
Nov 11th 2009, 6:40 pm
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I dont think that is quite true, in fact learning another language teaches you a lot about your own.
Sometimes you have to learn another language before you really know your own.
I am sure it is happening right now to some of the children of members of this forum. Very young children having to learn Spanish when they dont know a great lot of their own language, but it works......needs must.
Nov 11th 2009, 7:10 pm
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If like me during English lessons you had more interesting activities on your mind, like touching up the girl next to you, then your likely to struggle with pronouns etc etc.
And if you don`t remember the rules in English, another language is going to feel very difficult.
From my limited knowledge of Spanish, the rules are complicated.
And if you don`t remember the rules in English, another language is going to feel very difficult.
From my limited knowledge of Spanish, the rules are complicated.
Nov 14th 2009, 8:58 pm
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Is that because it is martes trece for them? Anyway back on thread, "nothing lasts forever"???????
Nov 14th 2009, 9:02 pm
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Nov 14th 2009, 9:12 pm
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Then we have double the opportunity to be paranoid.......
Nov 14th 2009, 9:20 pm
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As someone who speaks both languages, does anyone else think that New Yord is called the Big Apple because of a mis-translation from Spanish to English.
Apple = manzana
Block = manzana.
New yorkers always give directions like " 2 blocks south etc.......
Could New york have been called the Big Apple (block), by the Spanish and an English speaker translated MANZANA into apple, by mistake.......
It is only a theory...............someone on here might know the answer...
Apple = manzana
Block = manzana.
New yorkers always give directions like " 2 blocks south etc.......
Could New york have been called the Big Apple (block), by the Spanish and an English speaker translated MANZANA into apple, by mistake.......
It is only a theory...............someone on here might know the answer...
Nov 14th 2009, 9:27 pm
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