Fun experience

[Jane]

Originally Posted by poli

Es que muchos brasileños hablan español aunque sea un español chapurreado. Es la segunda lengua del pais.
Hace sentido porque todos sus vecinos son hispanos.

yo también entiendo mas o menos los brasileños cuando hablan y diría que hay mucha similaridades en las dos lenguas.
Poli, do you say; Hace sentido or Tiene sentido?

[poli]

Originally Posted by Jane

yo también entiendo mas o menos los brasileños cuando hablan y diría que hay mucha similaridades en las dos lenguas.
Poli, do you say; Hace sentido or Tiene sentido?

¡Muy diplomática Jane! Seguro que se usa tiene sentido. Es (should I have used the article here?) inglés que me está traisionándome. Come sabes usamos makes sense.

PS: Nice new avatar!

[Jane]

Originally Posted by poli

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Es (should I have used the article here?) inglés que me está traisionándome. Come sabes usamos makes sense.

PS: Nice new avatar!

Thanks, Poli.
Yo diría `Es el inglés ...´

Let´s see what the native speakers will say.

[poli]

Originally Posted by Jane

Thanks, Poli.
Yo diría `Es el inglés ...´

Let´s see what the native speakers will say.

I think you are right, but to me el inglés sounds like the Englishman

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by poli

¡Muy diplomática Jane! Seguro que se usa tiene sentido. Es (should I have used the article here?) inglés que me está traicionándome. Come sabes usamos makes sense.

Yo diría el inglés o posiblemente mi inglés. Creo que por el contexto no van a creer que hablas de una persona inglesa.

[Alfonso]

Originally Posted by poli

¡Muy diplomática Jane! Seguro que se usa tiene sentido. Es (should I have used the article here?) inglés que me está traisionándome. Come sabes usamos makes sense.

PS: Nice new avatar!

• Es el / mi inglés, que me traiciona / está traicionándome.

Pero no puedes omitir el artículo o el posesivo.

[Jane]

How would you say ` It´s the Englishman...´?

[Alfonso]

Originally Posted by Jane

How would you say ` It´s the Englishman...´?

Es el inglés... You must guess the meaning by the context, as inglés can be both, Englishman and English language.

[Ramses]

Yeah, you use "el inglés", "el holandés", etc., etc. But I forget it all the time as well .

[CrOtALiTo]

Ramses, Do you know to speak these languages, Holandes, Ingles, Spanish, How you do to know these languages at same time.?

I know my Spanish, but I'm learning English, and really, it's hard, I have what study so much all the days, I've that practice here in the forums, I use the forums very widely, look, today I've a test about it in the university, hope I can approve the test, please you wish me good look.

[Ramses]

Well, Dutch and English are my mother tongues (although English didn't fully develop due to a lack of pratice, hehe). Spanish is a language I just started studying about a year ago.

How can I use them at the same time? Well, I'm so used to swtiching between Dutch and English, so Spanish isn't too much of a problem. That said, I do make mistakes when I have to switch a lot in a short amount of time. Because I have to switch so often, I'm used to it so it's not big of a problem.

Good luck with the test. All I can say: get more input. That's how I learned English, by watching cartoons and listening to my family (later on I could speak English as well, just by listening, but it all began with listening between the ages 5 and 15).

[CrOtALiTo]

Okis, Ramses, thanks for your good luck.