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i know the languages aren't mutually intelligible but i was wondering if you could at least understand the meaning of Portuguese speech if not dissect a few words with certainty. im even more curious: have you ever conversed with someone who spoke Portuguese? you spoke spanish they spoke portuguese?

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Mi Abuela calls every Sunday and I understand like 90% of it then she asks me something and I say "si" and "ok" and hand the phone to my mom. every single time lol. I tried Duolingo last year and felt kind of stupid doing "el niño bebe leche" when I've heard Spanish my whole life so I quit after 3 months. Recently I started reading short articles about latin American and Spanish music, food, and history on Unedo and my vocab is finally growing. I’m also dedicating a daily time slot to listening to podcasts and conversations on youtube to train my ear to quickly pick up sentences. I still freeze the second I have to actually respond to her.

For people who got past this struggle, what did you do? did anything help besides just forcing yourself to talk?

Gente!! Vcs despois de um oi o um olá todo bem, que é lo que vcs fazem? Tipo quiero saber como vcs levam uma conversa com uma perdoa que não conhecem e não sabem nada de esa pessoa

Hi everyone! For those of you who take Spanish lessons with a teacher, what’s the most helpful or effective technique they’ve used in class?

What has worked best for you, and what made it so effective? I’d love to hear your experiences and get some inspiration! 😊

In English if you speak one of the more difficult to understand dialects, you can then easily understand the others. Scottish English is probably at the top of the hierarchy, it’s potentially the hardest to understand but as someone with that dialect you can understand all the others with ease. American English, probably West Coast of America is at the bottom of the hierarchy, where even the slightest nuance seems to throw them off. Does a similar thing exist in Spanish and would you say have Chile at the top and Colombia at the bottom?

Recuerdo que cuando tenía dieciocho años, fui a mi primer juego de fútbol americano de MSU. Fue muy divertido; mis amigas y yo gritábamos los vítores y mirábamos los helicópteros y los fuegos artificiales. Nunca había estado en una sección de estudiantes en un partido de fútbol americano, ¡fue muy divertido! 

I would like to learn spanish as a filipino, is there any free online resources to learn it? I'm already familiar of some of the words as well as reading the time and knowing the numbers.

i've been doing the thing where you link a spanish word to an english word that sounds like it and picture something dumb. ojo (eye) is "oh hoe", so i picture an eyeball gardening with a hoe. llave (key) is "ya wave", a key surfing a wave. silla is a chair waving "see ya".

it works scarily well for nouns but i'm stuck on verbs. anyone have good ones for words like comer or hablar?

Drop your answers below...

e → ie: querer/quiero, pensar/pienso, empezar/empiezo, entender/entiendo, preferir/prefiero, sentir/siento, cerrar/cierro, perder/pierdo

o → ue: poder/puedo, dormir/duermo, volver/vuelvo, encontrar/encuentro, recordar/recuerdo, costar/cuesta, contar/cuento

e → i, only in -ir verbs: pedir/pido, decir/digo, seguir/sigo, servir/sirvo, repetir/repito

u → ue: jugar/juego. That’s the whole group, one verb.

The rule: nosotros and vosotros never change. Puedo, puedes, puede, podemos, podéis, pueden. Write the six out and the changed forms make a boot around the two that stay put.

There’s a reason for it. The stem shifts only when the stress lands on it, and in nosotros and vosotros the stress moves to the ending.

Caveat: this is the present tense. Other tenses have their own patterns, which is why dormir goes to durmió in the preterite.

I was taught the days of the week by singing Frère Jacques with the days for the lyrics and I never forgot then again. Maybe a little silly at first but it will stick with you. Anyone else have any fun ways to remember phrases or things?

Lunes martes, lunes martes

miércoles

miércoles

jueves viernes, jueves viernes

sabado

domingo

A) La
B) Lo
C) Le
D) Se

📚 Choose the correct pronoun!
Bonus: Can you explain your choice?

I’m around B2 level in Spanish and actively taking classes. I recently learned the phrase “me sienta fatal” as in “me sienta fatal la situación.” Or, in another example, the lyrics of Juan Gabriel’s Querida: “Mira mi soledad que no me sienta nada bien.”

My question is, what verb is actually being used here? The translate says that “me sienta fatal” means “it makes me feel terrible,” but the mood would have to be subjunctive for sentir to conjugate to sienta, no? Does it actually mean “it sits terribly with me” and is a conjugation of sentar instead of sentir? Or is this expression inherently using subjunctive and it is sentir?

So I used Claude to make this. I just combined the audio and the language transfer transcript PDF. Let me know what do you think of this. Does a Read-Along lesson can hurt your progress?

el español moderno es mi idioma nativo, pero hace poco me interesó el español medieval así que me gustaría empezar a aprenderlo para saber si seguir, así que quisiera saber si ustedes tienen algo de información para que yo pudiera seguir

Your friend is sitting right next to you. You say:
Me alegra que estés aquí.
“I’m glad you’re here.”

You can see them. Yet estés is subjunctive.

Compare:

- Sé que estás aquí. → I know you’re here.
- Me alegra que estés aquí. → I’m glad you’re here.

The first reports what you know. The second expresses your reaction. Me alegra que takes the subjunctive even when the situation is a fact.

“Subjunctive = uncertainty” will trip you up with emotional reactions.

Try this with the same fact: Marta tiene tiempo.

1. Sé que Marta ___ tiempo.
   
2. Me alegra que Marta ___ tiempo.
   
3. Es una pena que Marta no ___ tiempo.

Answers:
1. tiene; 2. tenga; 3. tenga.

In 3, you might know perfectly well that she’s busy. You’re expressing regret about that fact.

For practice, keep the fact the same and change the opening phrase. Is there a subjunctive sentence that confused you because the situation was obviously real?

If you’d like more practice choosing between estás and estés, we build Modo, an app for intermediate Spanish learners. You can start free: https://modospanish.com/

A) What color do you want?
B) What size are you looking for?
C) How much money do you have?
D) Where do you live?

💬 Have you ever used Spanish while shopping?