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| bio | website | en.wiktionary.org/wiki/… |
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| location | Tbilisi, Georgia | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
| seen | Feb 10 at 9:00 | |
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I'm an Australian who learned Spanish in Mexico and has put it to use in Andorra, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Morocco, Nicaragua, Panama, and Spain. (Yeah I know Spanish isn't official in two or three of those countries but I ended up using it anyway at least some of the time.)
Sometimes people try to tell me I'm fluent but I'm definitely not.
I have a collection of monolingual and bilingual Spanish dictionaries that I've bought, many second hand, on my travels. I always look for a dictionary of regionalisms in each Spanish speaking country. I don't always find one.
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Feb 17 |
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Difference between “está” and “esta” or “esté” and “este”? more tags |
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Feb 17 |
awarded | Tag Editor |
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Feb 12 |
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Why is sport in Spanish 'deporte' and not 'esporte'? typo |
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Feb 12 |
answered | Why is sport in Spanish 'deporte' and not 'esporte'? |
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Feb 10 |
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Is there a trick to remembering 'llevar' and 'traer'? choice tags |
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Feb 10 |
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When should I use 'al'? contractions tag |
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Feb 10 |
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Ser and estar for location copulae tag |
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Feb 9 |
awarded | Enlightened |
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Feb 9 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 8 |
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Is there a difference between “español” and “castellano”? Believe me, the situation in Australia and Canada is very similar to what you describe. Australia had on the order of 200 cultures for about 40,000 years before the British invasion which also included severe punishments for people speaking their banned mother languages, perhaps even in my generation - I'm about the same age as you (but I'm a privileged white Australian so not one of those who suffered). Canada also had many cultures coexisting for I think about 7,000 years before the European invasion and I think they may have had harsh language policies too. |
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Feb 8 |
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Is there a difference between “español” and “castellano”? minor copyedit |
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Feb 7 |
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Difference between “un poco de” and “un poco” retag |
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Feb 6 |
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Differences betwen “ahí”, “allí”, y “allá” deixis tag |
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Feb 5 |
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“Iros” instead of “idos” (imperative of verb “ir”) @CesarGon: I wholeheartedly agree. I'm not a big fan of the historical RAE but it seems to comprise people with much more open minds in recent years now. Nevertheless Spanish does have an academy so we have to recognize that though I do invite people to contest their official positions. On the subject of castellano we have a question too: Is there a difference between “español” and “castellano”? |
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Feb 5 |
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¿Qué tipo de palabra es «alto»? Perhaps it's true of most of South America rather than most of Latin America? |
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Feb 5 |
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When should I attach the indirect and direct object pronoun to the end of a verb? direct and indirect object tags |
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Feb 5 |
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lo ayudo vs. le ayudo (direct vs. indirect object) direct and indirect object tags |
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Feb 5 |
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Indirect object and “le” indirect object tag |
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Feb 5 |
answered | Translation of “twang” |
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Feb 5 |
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What does “le” mean here? copyedit english usage |
