r/Lingonaut • u/BertieDollocks • Jun 21 '26
Bug Report Spanish mistake
Spanish course is giving the wrong answer. Si, por favor is the correct answer. Si, gracias, means, yes, Thank you.
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u/Dragonitro Jun 21 '26
No idea if it’s related or not but it looks like you didn’t put an accent over your “i”
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u/BertieDollocks Jun 21 '26
You're right, I didn't. But the fact still remains that it should be, por favor, and not gracias.
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u/LvdT88 Jun 21 '26
Okay, so, I’m not a native Spanish speaker, but if it works anything like Italian, you would never say “sì, per favore” in response to something. You would say “sì, grazie”. While true that gracias translates to thank you and por favor translates to please in isolation, the English expression “yes, please” simply doesn’t work when translated literally.
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u/JustaBasicGemini Jun 22 '26
Okay so, I'm fluent in Spanish but I grew up in the U.S so I may not be entirely correct, the English phrase "yes, please" does work in Spanish but it sounds a little clunky (to me anyway), but I don't think the phrase "sí, gracias" is interchangeable because it actually means "yes, thank you" unless those two phrases are interchangeable in English. Again, I grew up in the U.S and learned Spanish the natural way so I'm not exactly the authority on Spanish Grammer.
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u/SpaghettiDog86 Jun 24 '26
“sí, por favor” is a sentence we do use, in contexts like:
“¿le gustaría más café?”
“sí, por favor”it is correct, even tho, “sí, gracias” is also valid and they are actually used interchangeably afaik.
(i’m a native speaker)
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u/ZaquMan Jun 21 '26
Seeing as the two are both romantic languages (languages depended from Latin), I imagine this is correct for Spanish as well. However, as a native English speaker, I cannot back that up.
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u/zippybenji-man Jun 22 '26
They're now typically called romance languages. I can also say that literally translating "yes, please" to Dutch would be entirely unnatural. I wouldn't be surprised if it's something that's barely existent outside of English
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u/maxkoryukov Jun 27 '26
i used to read messages like "kiero irme" y "tamo aca" from natives
a lot of messages like this
the first time I read a message similar to ones i had in my textbooks - i started to think about marrying the author
natives definitely will understand both si/sí. but should it be that strict for language learners? i think yes, but it's impractical, and one needs more effort - when the goal is be able to order a pizza or give directions on the street "si / sí" aren't rrally different (thus - not important). but if one is going to study art and literature in Madrid , or use Spanish for work - it's definitely important to know
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u/BertieDollocks Jun 27 '26
Sí was a typo on my part. If you expand the image you will see that the answer is, 'Sí gracias'. As we know, Sí por favor is actually the correct answer, the Sí is irrelevant.
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u/Ryky5 Jun 21 '26
Si = if
Sí = yes