Jamesito´s Spanish Corner, Everyone welcome to discuss practical Spanish!!! Options

[Jamesito]

Hi everyone,

Most of you now know me as I post a lot on the forums here. After talking with senior´s and moderators, We have decided to open a few off topic threads that are desinged to help people with language learning. Here at GMC we have a wide variety of differant nationalities, languages and cultures. So within this forum, I will be giving advice on practical spanish in everyday life, translation queries, how to integrate effectively with spaniards and latin americans, living in Spain or Latin America and many other issues around this topic.

I would be happy to take any questions about your Spanish, the great thing here at GMC is we have a lot of Spanish speaking members aswell, so they can correct me aswell lol!!!! yeah right!. Learning a language is like learning to play guitar, there are many similarities, practice indeed makes perfect . I have been only learning for 5 years but I have had the privilege of having excellent friends in South America and Spain! Having lived in Spain and I am currently living in Ecuador, learning is a lot easier.

With all that being said, any queries or worries with your grammer, transaltions or anything you can think of, don´t hesitate to make a post!!!!

Hope to speak to you all soon,

Jamesito - Spanish God LOL yeah right...

[Jamesito]

hahaha yes it all looks ok luciana, although it was meant for non spanish speakers lol , but it was a good way to test your english right? ok but you raised a good point in there...

In spanish "it" does not exist everything is masculine or feminine, so let´s say you want to talk about a concert that you went to, your going to say, The concert was amazing, I really loved it!!!!, it would transalte as

El concierto fue increible (or asombroso), me encantó!!! "it" will always take the form of he or she, this example is in preterite or past tense.

"it" as an object would be translated as "lo" o "la" or "Los" and "Las" if plural. As you can see it´s masculine or femnine.
it´s one or the othert and If you don´t mention a specific item, the "it" in english will always take a masculine form in Spanish.
An example. would be "i don´t know where to put it", this would be, No sé donde ponerlo , the "lo" represents the "it" in english and as no thing is actually mentioned it takes a masculine ending. If the conversation was more like,

Pasame la Botella..., Pues no sé donde ponerla (Give me the bottle..., I don´t know where to put it!!!) you would have to use the feminine version of "it" as "la botella" is feminine.

This is a little complicated but it comes with practice!!!! Hope this helps someone lol

Jamesito

[shellshock1911]

hahaha yes it all looks ok luciana, although it was meant for non spanish speakers lol , but it was a good way to test your english right? ok but you raised a good point in there...

In spanish "it" does not exist everything is masculine or feminine, so let´s say you want to talk about a concert that you went to, your going to say, The concert was amazing, I really loved it!!!!, it would transalte as

El concierto fue increible (or asombroso), me encantó!!! "it" will always take the form of he or she, this example is in preterite or past tense.

"it" as an object would be translated as "lo" o "la" or "Los" and "Las" if plural. As you can see it´s masculine or femnine.
it´s one or the othert and If you don´t mention a specific item, the "it" in english will always take a masculine form in Spanish.
An example. would be "i don´t know where to put it", this would be, No sé donde ponerlo , the "lo" represents the "it" in english and as no thing is actually mentioned it takes a masculine ending. If the conversation was more like,

Pasame la Botella..., Pues no sé donde ponerla (Give me the bottle..., I don´t know where to put it!!!) you would have to use the feminine version of "it" as "la botella" is feminine.

This is a little complicated but it comes with practice!!!! Hope this helps someone lol

Jamesito

Na I fully understand.

But I can you explain to me how "Lo siento" means "I am sorry," would you not say "Estoy siento?"