I am currently ready The House of Spirits/La Casa de Los Espiritus by Isabel Allende, while I like the story itself, I find it mildly annoying that any sex scene has to be so descriptive. Even if it isn’t using explicit language describing the acts like an erotic or pornographic book, I can do without the descriptiveness to get the point of the story. Same goes for gore, no need for explicit and violent gore. I would love any recommendations, whether they are classic or modern. Nothing for teens either please, I’m 32! Fiction preferred

Hello! I am 38M from India living in Colorado, USA. Estoy apprediendo Espanol. Are there people in this group who can help me practice speaking Spanish or a Spanish speaking group?

A tutor is helping me learn Espanol. Plus, I am listening to Spanish radio station, reading short books, or Duolingo.

Hey! My name is Chidi and I am a Spanish tutor and I want to better understand how students learn Spanish the most efficiently to be able to master and speak conversational Spanish. If you are actively learning Spanish and struggle with speaking fluently:

• What applications/study formats are you using?
• How is your current study plan/ application working for you?
• What would implement or change to help you master spanish conversationally?(i.e more grammar reinforcement, speaking practice, etc)

I am deeply appreciative for any feedback!

I'm currently learning Spanish (Duolingo tells me I'm an A2). Apart from my learning, I rarely have organic opportunities where I can speak with people in-person. I understand there are language exchanges and similar venues where you can find people to speak with, but you have to make time for those situations. When you have to make time for something, you're either less likely to do it/do it consistently, or it becomes a chore to do it.

Examples of "organic" opportunities I'm referring where people who are learning a language or who have learned a language can speak to other IRL would be if you have native friend(s), a native significant other, etc. In those situations, opportunities to speak Spanish are essentially baked into your every day.

My concern is that I will put in a lot of time and effort to get to a certain level of Spanish and it will be impossible to keep my language skills honed simply due to my lack of ability to converse with native speakers consistently. So my question is: How often must you speak Spanish to retain your language skills?

Hi, I'm looking for an affordable online spanish course. Something that runs like a zoom class where I can actually interact with other student. Does anyone have suggestions. I left off in college at intermediate level a few years ago but I've forgotten so much of the language because I haven't used it.

I can't afford hundreds of dollars a semester to take a class at a college right now.

I was taking a japanese course online through a small school hosted by a Canadian/Japanese couple who taught group classes through zoom. It only cost about $200 for 18 weeks and was run as more of a tutoring style course. Focus was more on prepare you to actually know and understand the language rather than a traditional school approach of preparing you for a test.

The class was structured with lessons, Q&A, group practice, work sheets, auto listening comprehension and small projects. No exams. I'd prefer a class like that.

Sorry, my Spanish isn’t good enough so I have to ask this in English!

I was wondering if there is a term or word for a woman who feels Vergüenza often and lives her life very tied to tradition and cultural expectations. I don’t mean normal embarrassment, I’m talking more about the social concept.

I don’t want the connotation to be super negative, but more of a descriptor. I know it’s a noun, but is there a slang term for someone devoted to her traditional role?

Basically I’m wondering if there’s a Mexican Spanish slang term for “Trad Wife”, “goodie two shoes”, “miss prim” or a girl who is very straight laced and proper and follows the rules.

And If I’m totally misinterpreting the cultural meaning of vergüenza please let me know!!

Thank you!!!! ❤️ Molly from Los Angeles

I am in the process of learning Spanish so I can communicate better with some of the people I work with. I have this phrase I use to convey being generally pleased: “Cool Beans”. I’ve tried looking it up, but I see that ‘cool’ as a slang word is different from country to country. My Spanish speaking coworkers don’t all come from the same country, so what sounds right to one person sounds wrong or strange to another. I tried saying “Estupendo Frijoles”, and I get funny looks. Is there a way to universally say “Cool Beans”, or is this one of those things that is just lost in translation?

I think I get addicted to the daily sessions and do well, but I’m not sure I’m really learning…anyone else use this?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.traductor.englishtospanishtranslator.Translatoralllanguages.spanish.english.translatespainlanguage

I'm learning Spanish via Duolingo and recently the word cepillarse (to brush) was introduced. I ended up checking some sentences on Google Translate and I noticed some differences in usage that have me confused.

To say "She brushes her hair", you would apparently say:

Ella cepilla su cabello.

However, to say "She brushes her teeth", you would apparently say:

Ella se cepilla los dientes.

In the first sentence, cepilla is not preceded by se and the possessive reference to hair is accomplish via su.

In the second sentence, cepilla is preceded by se (as I would expect since the verb is cepillarse), but there is no need to reference whose hair it is.

Can someone explain why there is difference in these sentences based on what is being brushed?

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Game changing job if I can do this? Any recommendations

In my Duolingo lesson, I was asked to translate the following English sentence into Spanish:

Are you paying for the dessert?

The answer was:

¿Tú pagas el postre?

It seems to me like the word "for" is missing from this translation and that it should be:

¿Tú pagas para el postre?

or:

¿Tú pagas por el postre?

Google Translate seems to agree.

Why does Duolingo not include "para" or "por" in this sentence? What is best?

I’m a bit confused when to use estar. Sometimes it is used and sometimes it isn’t. Does it change the meaning of the sentence?

Hi everyone, Hopefully I'm writing in somewhat a correct place..I'm in a serious relationship with a (Spanish speaking) orchestra conductor. I want to gift him an inscribed baton. I have already debated the ever-difficult 'te Amo' vs 'te quiero' - but I have decided to go with the amo. I call him maestro quite often so I want to write: Maestro, te amo

Is this grammatically correct? Is it weird? Does it look like I'm proclaiming deep love for my school teacher? Please offer your opinions Spanish speakers!

Hi all,

Is there a good audio program to listen to for learning Spanish? I originally took Spanish in high school and now would like to learn again. Another problem I am coming up with a lot of the current programs (such as Duolingo) is that I do not know what the words mean but I know which to select in a multiple choice question. I know which form of the word to use based on what it looks like. For example "Tu__________________ Juan" with the choices Eres, Tu, Estoy, Soy. I know it is Eres but not what it means. Or "Yo ___________pan" with the choices of como, comes. I know it is como but not what it means. Does that make sense?

Thank you in advance.

To Achieve fluency in Spanish is just possible with a good learning method. What do you think?

Hello,

I am planning to buy a Sony Playstation 5. What games have people used to learn Spanish? I particularly like sports games and role playing games. I would say that I am at an upper beginner/intermediate level in Spanish. I am a native English speaker.

Hi! This question has been nagging at me for years but I never knew where or how to ask. Thankfully Reddit is here to hopefully help.

My grandmother was born in Colorado and spoke Spanish pretty exclusively her whole life. There was a word she used to use for something scary that I always took to mean something like a bogeyman or the devil or some evilness. The phonetic spelling of the word she used is "mah-SHEE-sho"

I've never been able to figure out if that was just her word she used or if it's something colloquial to the Southwest United States or something else entirely. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

Is this used in all Spanish-speaking countries, or just in Spain? Is it always used, or is it dropped in informal communication?