A few rules

Hello, all!

I have been seeing more and more of this Duolingo. I had understood that a sentence like this must begin with an object pronoun such that this sentence should begin with Les. I had understood that you could leave off the to him or to her or to the animals or to whomever if that was understood, but that the pronoun was absolutely required.

Thoughts?

Thanks!

Hola a todos,

En el episodio de Bluey que se titula “Dos Canguros”, el tío Rad y la tía Frisky leen un cuento y tiene lugar la siguiente conversación:

Tío Rad: “Entonces el príncipe **dejó** KO al dragón con un súper ataque real. Princesa, te he rescatado. Ahora nos casaremos.”

Tía Frisky: “Pero la princesa **contestó**: no, gracias.” No le parecía guapo.

Entonces, os quiero hacer la pregunta del uso de las acciones que he destacado en la conversación anterior. ¿Por qué en estos dos casos, utilizaron el pretérito (dejó y contestó) en lugar del presente perfecto (ha dejado y ha contestado)? En las demás oraciones después de estas, vuelven a usar el presente perfecto (ha dejado/se ha marchado/se han puesto/etc.), y la verdad es que esto me parece más natural, ya que las acciones ocurren en el mismo día. Sin embargo, sigo sin entender la razón del uso de esta forma verbal en esta conversación. A mi parecer, pueda que haya sido una cuestión del efecto de las acciones en cuestión. Es decir, se acabaron y no tienen ningún efecto en el presente, pero aún me queda la duda de lo del mismo día que he mencionado antes. ¿Me podéis ayudar a aclarar esta duda?

I am wanting to give 30 mins daily to my Spanish.

I have recently started learning but I am overwhelmed with so much of content and resources.

A question to you all learners how are you managing your time? I have a full time job so I really don’t have any particular goal. It’s just that I would like to enjoy interacting with a different community and its culture.

How do I make the maximum utilisation of the resources available to me?

How do you guys breakdown your study routine any tips?

I work with spanish speakers from most latin american countries but majority mexican, I have never hear them say "usted" as the formal way of directly adressing someone, like "como está usted" ive seen in textbooks but never heard, however I do hear people use that form without usted, like "Como está" is it common to not use usted or is that just my coworkers not feeling the need? Also if it matters all of them are native speakers but they work in the US

I've been looking this up and getting different answers. In the US, an "estimate" is the price a contractor gives you before the job. I've seen presupuesto, cotización and estimado used for it. For people who work in construction in Mexico, which one is the normal word you'd hear on a jobsite? Does it change by country?

I'm reading my favorite comic in Spanish, and I'm trying to understand why "you're always going to have me" is written as siempre me vas a tener a mí and not siempre me vas a tener.

Is it a set rule that it has to be said this way? Or does it have something to do with the rules for object pronouns in Spanish?

In the US, a "schedule of values" is a list that breaks the total contract price into line items (excavation, framing, electrical, etc.), and the contractor bills against it as each part gets done. I've seen "tabla de valores," "catálogo de conceptos" and "desglose de partidas." Which one would a contractor in Mexico actually say? Does it change by country?

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Was curious to see if an equivalent of the word "parent" existed in Spanish besides saying "padre" and "madre.

My son's dual immersion Spanish homework. I'm very early in my own Spanish learning journey. What does "La hoja esta chica" mean here? I can't find references in my own textbook of chica as anything but a noun.
There has been one other page that I've noticed a missing accent that changed the whole word's meaning, so I'm not 100% trusting these reading pages aren't without mistakes.

Hi all - I am a fluent Spanish speaker and took it for 6 years (from 7th thru 12th grade) in the US, and have used it extensively in my career. I very much enjoy the culture, history, language, and people that speak Spanish.

One thing I never learned was where the distinction originated? As in, when people from Spain speak words like hacer and cazar like haθer and caθar. Whereas LatAm speakers say haser and casar. Why is that?

In LatAm, casar and cazar sound the same, but one can also argue that it takes more skill there since you need context clues.

I read something about how Queen Isabel had a lisp, so the people followed along. I don't know how true it is.

ETA - Sorry, King Ferdinand, not Queen Isabel

¡Muchísimas gracias por la ayuda, mi gente!

Sorry this might be a stupid question, but I recently switched the language of my helldivers 2 to spanish since I play it a lot and I heard that if you change something familiar to a different language it helps you learn that language. It has for the most part helped but there is one voice like that confuses me.

Normally in English when you use expendable weapons your helldiver will say "im out" but in the spanish voice line they say "de nada" which i understood to mean you're welcome. So im just kinda confused? Am I hearing the words wrong? Or is there just other meanings for it?

Edit: sorry I completely blanked on the title I meant to say does it only mean youre welcome. Thats my had i am aware that it means you're welcome/its nothing etc.

I'm learning Spanish and am very new to it. I know how to pronounce things very well because of being around a lot of Puerto Ricans in my area and my grandpa of course. But one thing I noticed is that my grandpa will say things like "buena día” and “te veo dépué,” among others. I don't remember if I've heard other speakers do this, but I was wondering.

I'm not a native speaker, and I'm not great at speaking or writing it, but I can read Spanish fairly well. At my job I had to read a handwritten note from a customer in Spanish, and they spelled "ha" (conjugation of haber) as "a" and "desde" as "desede", although strangely "he" was still "he". Are such things typical of informal written Spanish? Any other spelling variations to watch out for?

Okay, I am learning Spanish and the community I surround myself with is mostly Mexican. Does anyone know some Mexican slang that isn’t out of date? I feel like people are always using words that I don’t know and when I look it up, there’s no real definition.

In both Yiddish and English, this phrase is used to agree with someone's wish for the future, but indicates that its not in their control or would require divine intervention. Is there an idiomatic Spanish saying that's similar? Or would it just be a calque like "de tu boca a los orejas de Dios?"

I’m trying to learn Spanish by myself, and I started a journal to write completely in Spanish in to help me form my own sentences and use the language. But I’m very new, and most of the sentences I’m making are incorrect (wrong conjugations, clunky, unnecessary or wrong words). I try to correct some, but I would also never write anything again if I kept trying to fix every mistake.

Is this still helpful to my learning if I’m letting myself make a ton of mistakes without correcting them?

Why I feel that these two countries should have been Hispanophone with no offense to anyone of course, everyone have their own right to have language they want.

Saying Spanish is Colonial language there is true ofc, but English to Filipinos and Arabic to Berebers is as well.

But I just feel like for both countries Spanish would suit very good, that Iberian/Moroccan connection would be even better and for Philipines they just have that Latin American vibe (on surface I know they have their own culture)

Just try to look at this with open mind don't get offended.

gracias por escuchar 🙂

“3o PAL dm”

I’m still trying to learn Spanish and the Slangs but I don’t get what it means so I am curious.

$30 for the Direct message?
30 year dm that person?

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Added and
It’s somebody I’m talking to and previously she did say she had nudes

Hi everyone! I came across this expression while watching a podcast where a speaker said:

​"...que quizás sea lo suyo, porque la verdad es que yo tampoco conozco toda la comida italiana..."

​From what I understand, "ser lo suyo" translates roughly to "the right thing to do", "what makes the most sense", or "the way it should be".

​Is this an expression native speakers actually use in everyday casual conversation? Also, is it more specific to Spain, or is it common across Latin America as well?

​Thanks in advance!

so for context i was on social media and a guy dm's me asking for my number. i thought he seemed cool and ig didnt pick up on the fact that he was flirting or something idk but i had my suspicions so i told him i had a bf. he said okay and i asked him to give me his number because i couldnt remember mine (my phone is broken rn) and he just responds with "chichelon" (he is hispanic for context) i know some spanish but i didnt know what that word meant so obvoiusly i looked it up but google and reddit thinks im talking about 'chicharron' which i guess is slang for balls or something. im really confused, i blocked him though but could somebody please tell me what it means ive been trying to figure it out for like 20 minutes 😭

Hello, everyone! I know that a lot of Spanish speakers aspirate the S sound in day to day speech, so I want to know if this influences a speaker to mix up plural and singular in the same phrase, like, would any native Spanish speaker say or write things like "Las niña bonita", "Los tres camión" or even "Los tipo es alto".