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Introducing myself (and asking my first question)
Hello
My name is Bolboreta (Galician word for butterfly/mariposa). I live in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. I am learning english, and looking for a vocabulary about (home work? Domestic work? ...hmmmm, about words like ironing, cleaning, cooking...) I've found you. I am sure you will help me, and I hope I will be able to help someone with their spanish. Feel free to correct my mistakes. What I want is to learn! And my first question is if this website has an " daily english word". If it exists, I can't find it, and I think it's a funny and useful thing. The same with grammar, I've found a spanish one, but not the english version. Nice to meet you, V. |
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Bienvenida Bolboreta
Do it the other way Daily spanish word apurarse - verb - to hurry, rush, worry, fret, make an effort Daily english word to hurry: apurarse to rush: apurarse to worry: apurarse to fret:apurarse to make an effort:apurarse You must only make it the other way. some domestic duties: Cleaning, Hoovering, Ironing, Painting, Sewing, Cooking, cleaning Windows, Laundry, Gardening, do the shopping.
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Welcome to the forums!
As Sosia pointed out, there is a Daily Spanish Word forum, but no Daily English Word. Looking at the threads of the existing forum will give you the English equivalent(s). Your English is already quite good! In the U.S., we would not normally use Hoovering as a verb. Hoover es una marca de aspiradoras. Here we say vacuuming or running the sweeper (depends on the region). Adding to Sosia's list: house cleaning, vacuuming, running the sweeper, dusting, wiping down the walls, washing (the) dishes, running the dishwasher, doing (the) laundry, running the washer, washing (the) clothes, drying (the) clothes, running the dryer, mopping the floors, sweeping the floors, straightening up a room, making the bed, setting the table, clearing the table, wiping off the table, clearing the countertop, wiping off the countertop, organizing/straightening the books on the shelf, fluffing the pillows/cushions, cleaning the toiletbowl, shower, bathtub, cleaning the mirrors There are many more household chores and, I'm certain, slight variations in verb and vocabulary usage according to region. |
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Welcome! I am learning Spanish and look foward to helping you with your English!
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mop-mopa
sponge-esponja sponge mop rag- trapo brush - cepillo to scrub - fregar scrubber - fregadero bleach- cloro/legia plunger-desatascador drain-desagüe(is that the right word?) faucet-pluma/grifa Welcome to the forum,
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A few more options:
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plunger - In Mexico, this is usually destapacaños. faucet - In Mexico this would be llave (de agua). Another option for "to scrub" would be "tallar".
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Hello you are welcome to the world of the words. Here in Tomisimo the people is very nice and they can help you when you need it. I'm Luis from Mexico. I like, you. I'm learning English since one year ago. Well I your stay being funny. If you have to answers about your English. Please you don't feel embarrassment to ask us your questions.
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Thank you for your welcome, and for the domestic duties vocabulary, it will be very useful for me. I already have any doubt about it but will ask in a new topic to (facilitar) other's search in the forum. (sorry, what I mean is: preguntaré en un nuevo hilo para facilitar las búsquedas de otras personas en el foro)
Rusty, don't think my english is so good as it looks. In Spain at secondary school we study a lot of grammar, but almost don't speak. So if you were here in front of me, would change your opinion. Also (además?), I spent half an hour to write my first message! Thanks again to all of you for your kindness (amabilidad?). B. |
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