How to Spanish

This is somewhat outside of my area of expertise, but I will say a lot of Spanish sounds are indeed in the front of the mouth, though many regional accents are placed further back in the mouth, ...

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Yes, you can use it when referring to males as far as I know The word here la niña is another way of saying "pupil (of the eye)" and it's not (generally) the "girl" meaning most people are use...

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I would say generally they kinda read as synonymous but there is a lot of nuance chico/a is like "kid" - it literally means "small" so you can see it used as "small" or "little" The main diff...

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Yes, it's a phrase! Or, a bit of a newer social media expression I believe ser tendencia is "to be trending" or "to be a trend" And the por is "due to" Like if you're on social media you mi...

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If you're using future tense, you can use present tense with "if" si aprende español, hablaré con él en español "if he learns Spanish, I will talk to him in Spanish" hablaré being the fu...

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It should be the first one - A possible other example like this is there's a popular comedy called Aquí no hay quien viva which is translated as "no one could live here" though literally ...

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In general yes, esperar a alguien is "to wait for someone" You can say something like esperar el tren "to wait for the train" or esperar el avión "to wait for the plane", or sometimes it's esp...

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I'm not sure how far you are in Spanish so I'm going to quickly go over some things and I'm sorry if it's too much info all at once or if it sounds like I'm talking down to you, I just want to be...

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No, it's not the same. Spanish speakers will call their female dogs perras or perritas and it causes much less of an issue than English-speakers seeing it It's only offensive if you could be ta...

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If anything obligar is maybe a nicer way to say it, but generally same idea. Especially in contracts or legalese saying someone is "obliged" to do something is much nicer than "forced" I would ...

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The most common default way is soñar despierto/a which is "to dream (while) awake" The other basic way is estar/andar en/por las nubes which is literally "to be in the clouds" so it's pretty m...

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Not always Spanish has a VERY flexible word order The basic sentence structure is subject + verb + object Questions are verb + subject + object Some exclamatory sentences also do this...

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emmaklee : >  Not to hijack a post but it’s a slight bit different than the way the English makes it seem It is daydreaming, but it’s often interpreted like you’re not being mindful o...

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Found out that one of the words for “peanut” can be either cacahuete OR cacahuate I’ve been using cacahuete for so long that when my search was like “did you mean cacahuate” I started...

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minglana : > ideologically i dont agree with spain but they kind of went off with > coplas

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adhd-languages : > In the Spanish Gravity Falls dub, the “My ex-wife still misses > me..but her aim is getting better!”  >  > Is translated as “My ex-esposa todav...

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Typically it would be una bola curva because the expression does come from baseball... so you could see arrojar/tirar/lanzar una bola curva as "to throw a curve ball" in either sense A little ...

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In this case the expression is normally hacer saber "to make known", so it would be se lo hago saber "I make it known (to them)" It's not really a pattern here - hacer saber is its own kind of ...

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No, not exactly tener sueño is "to be sleepy" estar somnoliento/a is "to be drowsy"; but if you see somnoliento/a it usually means "drowsiness" like the side effect of a medicine - if I see ...

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