Learning Spanish language

Well well... we have a new student here welcome Orwa I second Mares' opinion: have a look around this thread, there are some basic interesting things post around.

I'd like to help... tell me, what's it you'd like to learn? you want to learn the language properly (I mean with all the grammar and stuff)? or just conversational skills?

Dear Citalli, i would like to study the conversational skills, i don't want to work as translator, i just want to read and write and understand!

Ok

Buenos días, ¿cómo estás? = Good morning, how are you?

Buenas tardes= Good afternoon

Buenas noches= Good evening/ Good night



Like that???

WOW, thanks citlalli, but i am sorry, i need to know how to read this letters first!

í and ¿, á, ó,

do you know any site that i can hear how to spell the letters?!

Nope, but I'll look for one .... although the pronunciation doesn't change, they are like a normal vowel, only you stress it... a bit like the long vowels alif, waw and ya in arabic... it's hard to explain... I'll find you a good link soon inshallah

hi all just been having a peek and think I can learn quite a bit from on here .
I already know Zahra and have been introduced to Debairs
so just wanted to say Hello to everyone else

@Orwa:

I've been having a quick look around and I found this site which I think is good and helpful (I selected already the chapter about stress for the vowels á, ó, etc. but I had a quick look around the other topics and I think you may like it... so go on and explore it dear should you have any questions we're here to help you ):

http://www.studyspanish.com/pronunciation/stress.htm


This other site also looks fine, but I think there are no audio files (I'm not quite sure though coz I only had a quiiiiiick look at it):

http://spanish.about.com/od/tipsforl...sh/u/start.htm


That's it for now ... if I find something interesting I'll post the link here


rizzy: hi, nice to meet you

thank you very much citalli, i will see the website but not now, as you know, my mind is of, it's 6 o'clock, but i promise tomorrow morning i will buy a notebook to write every thing!

Orwa: i'm so glad you want to learn my adopted language. You want to know everything we're saying now, don't you?.

I'm here to help you too, ask anytime. If you buy a Spanish language beginners book, that will teach you all the basics, 1st year uni. books are very good.

Buena suerte amigo!

thank you Ms. M, i will go to book store when i have the holiday, three day's leter, and see every thing can help

i really respect your comment, thank you again!

Orwa, I'm glad to see you've taken such a an interest in Spanish.

how is this in spanish...

do you have lemons?
how much is this?

¿Tiene limones? (formal)
or
¿Tienes limones? (informal)

If you mean how much does this cost, then say:
¿Cuánto cuesta esto/esta?

Originally Posted by walking_on_air10

¿Tiene limones? (formal)
or
¿Tienes limones? (informal)

If you mean how much does this cost, then say:
¿Cuánto cuesta esto/esta?

Good done

We use too ¿Cuánto vale?

Originally Posted by xiurell

Good done

We use too ¿Cuánto vale?

That makes sense.
If you don't mind me correcting your English, it should be "well" done.

Originally Posted by xiurell

Good done

We use too ¿Cuánto vale?

Friend, we say both here, ¿Cuánto vale? and ¿Cuánto cuesta?

In Argentina (& I'm sure in other places too) we say ¿Cuánto sale?

Originally Posted by DeBaires

In Argentina (& I'm sure in other places too) we say ¿Cuánto sale?

yea, that makes perfect sense, even if you translate it into english. i use cuanto cueta myself

Originally Posted by walking_on_air10

That makes sense.
If you don't mind me correcting your English, it should be "well" done.

thank you, my English is awful

Originally Posted by xiurell

Good done

Not bad at all Pepe, just a little funny.

You can also say "nicely done or superbly done" (but not goodly done).

Ten un buen fin de semana!

@edit: i should add that many words in English, as is the case with most languages i suppose, are not written a specific way just because it does not sound good & not because there is a grammatical error per sey, example, why is "goodly" wrong?. Simply because the sound makes us natives ROFL.