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Jamesito
Mar 1 2008, 05:29 PM
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From: Guayaquil, Ecuador
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!!!! tongue.gif yeah right!. Learning a language is like learning to play guitar, there are many similarities, practice indeed makes perfect biggrin.gif . 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 biggrin.gif - Spanish God LOL yeah right...

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Jamesito
Mar 1 2008, 05:43 PM
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Hey obviously you are pretty adept in English and Spanish I had a question. How is the word "just" used in spanish? Like "I want JUST one" or the other way "Why don't you JUST give up?." I know that "only" is "solo," but is there a word for "just" and if so, how is it used in the two cases that I put down? Thx!
- Shellshock1911

Hey Shellshock,

good question here, your use of "solo" is correct here in terms of I just want one or I only want one "Solo quiero uno-a" in your second frase "Why don´t you just give up", that´s more difficult as the article or context of the sentence is not clear...
In Spanish to English translation the frist aspect you will want to know is the context of the sentence.

If you said to me "Why don´t you just give up Smoking!" my translation would be "Porque no dejas de fumar!" I woulden´t say "just" in the sentence as it is kind of implied. The major issue here is the usage of "just", in your first sentence you need it, for example if you only wanted one of something "Yo quiero uno" is fine gramatically but "Solo quiero uno" sounds more afirmative.

In transaltion, the best transaltion are those which don´t stick 100% word to word to the orginal english but maintain the clarity and meaning of the sentence.

Hope this has helped out my friend, Buena Suerte!

Jamesito biggrin.gif

By the way if any spanish speaker wants to correct me, PM me! and i will wdit the postrather than quotes and repeat posts, Thanks guys

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- Jamesito   Jamesito´s Spanish Corner   Mar 1 2008, 05:29 PM
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- - Jamesito   Hey ShellShock, Well... "Quiero uno Solo...   Mar 1 2008, 06:03 PM
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