Buenos días

[tk421]

¡Hola!

Me llamo Juan (john)

Yo quiero aprender español, no say mucho.

Estoy usar "pimsluer", "michel thomas" y "RS", por siete semanas.

Estoy escribiendo y leyendo no muy bien.

Estoy viendo television español en mi ordenador.

Adios para ahora.

(i know the above is terrible, but help would be welcomed)

Gracias.

[Rusty]

¡Bienvenido a los foros, John!

Escrito originalmente por tk421

¡Hola!

Me llamo Juan (John).

Yo quiero aprender español. No sé mucho.

Estoy usando "Pimsleur", "Michel Thomas" y "RS" por siete semanas.
Better: Llevo siete semanas usando ...
Better: Hace siete semanas que uso ...
Better: Uso ... desde hace siete semanas.

Estoy escribiendo y leyendo no muy bien.
Better: No escribo ni leo muy bien.

Estoy viendo televisión española en mi ordenador.
Better: Veo televisión ...

Adiós por ahora.

(I know the above is terrible, but help would be welcomed.)

Gracias.

Many English-speaking students of Spanish overuse the present progressive tense (estoy usando, estoy escribiendo, estoy viendo, etc.). In Spanish, this tense expresses an action that is currently in process. If you convert your sentences to the present tense instead, they'll translate back into English just fine.

uso (present indicative tense)

Meanings:
I use
I do use
I'm using
I'll use (near future)

[tk421]

Gracias.

Ayuda mas bienvenido.

You have given me lots to think about, i dont have any formal education worth talking about. I do feel if i start trying to form my own sentances with the little i have learnt, your corrections can only be of help.

[Rusty]

You're welcome.

There's an 'Accents' drop-down menu just above where you type. You can use it to insert all the special characters needed when typing in Spanish.

I'm not quite certain what you meant by 'Ayuda mas bienvenido', but perhaps you were trying to say 'help more than welcomed'. This is said 'Ayuda más que bienvenida'.

[Asma]

Escrito originalmente por Rusty

¡Bienvenido a los foros, John!Many English-speaking students of Spanish overuse the present progressive tense (estoy usando, estoy escribiendo, estoy viendo, etc.). In Spanish, this tense expresses an action that is currently in process. If you convert your sentences to the present tense instead, they'll translate back into English just fine.

uso (present indicative tense)

Meanings:
I use
I do use
I'm using
I'll use (near future)

eso fue muy útil !

[CrOtALiTo]

Escrito originalmente por tk421

¡Hola!

Me llamo Juan (john)

Yo quiero aprender español, no say mucho.

Estoy usar "pimsluer", "michel thomas" y "RS", por siete semanas.

Estoy escribiendo y leyendo no muy bien.

Estoy viendo television español en mi ordenador.

Adios para ahora.

(i know the above is terrible, but help would be welcomed)

Gracias.

If you're going to watch the TV at least you can get the most advantage of the you are watching, you watch the Spanish TV so you will can get a few of the both languages.

[tk421]

Vivo en una casa con mi esposa, se llama Jessie.
Nostros no tenemos hijos.

Me gusta ciclisimo, tengo dos bicicletas.

[wrholt]

Escrito originalmente por tk421

...
You have given me lots to think about, i dont have any formal education worth talking about. I do feel if i start trying to form my own sentances with the little i have learnt, your corrections can only be of help.

Yes! I did a lot of this when I was first learning Spanish, too. Playing with anything is a great way to discover what one can do with it.

Escrito originalmente por tk421

Vivo en una casa con mi esposa, se llama Jessie.
(Nosotros) no tenemos hijos.

Think back on the toddlers you've met who were still learning to speak. They are always trying to communicate with what little they know, and often surprise us with how inventive they are with it.

Escrito originalmente por tk421

Me gusta ciclisimo, tengo dos bicicletas.

[Rusty]

Escrito originalmente por tk421

Vivo en una casa con mi esposa que se llama Jessie.
Nosotros no tenemos hijos.

Me gusta el ciclisimo. Tengo dos bicicletas.

Some (more) corrections.

[tk421]

Thanks all again.

After eight weeks of listening to Spanish TV, I am now starting to hear a lot of the words.
I don’t understand most but it has stopped being just one long noise.

I am trying to learn Spanish spoken in Spain (Madrid), but my Pims and Michel Thomas is Latin American, but my RS is Spanish (Spain).

Somedays I think I am progressing then I come back and feel like I am going nowhere.

Michel Thomas and RS is just starting with the “esta” "estar" and that whole can of worms