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[irmamar]

Originally Posted by Esperar

No puedo aprender español bien. Good luck anyway! I learnt French in high school, and hated it. Never wanted to learn it like I do Spanish.

Leo seis pagínas los libros un día aprender. I don't know if it's enough or not.

Leo seis páginas de un libro al día para aprender.

Es una buena media. Aprenderás pronto. Aunque aprender un idioma es una tarea sin final; yo todavía aprendo español (y lo hablo desde que era pequeñita).

[Esperar]

Originally Posted by irmamar

Leo seis páginas de un libro al día para aprender.

Es una buena media. Aprenderás pronto. Aunque aprender un idioma es una tarea sin final; yo todavía aprendo español (y lo hablo desde que era pequeñita).

No entiendo bien. ¿Puede traduccion para mi, por favor? Entiendo sólo un poco de este.

¿Por que usar "al" en tú sentencia?

[CrOtALiTo]

You try to translate you alone the post.
You can use the hand dictionary by if you need to help with some words that you don't know them.

[Brandon]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

You Try to translate you the post alone. the post.
You can use the a hand dictionary by if you need to help with some words that you don't know them.

Just some corrections.

[Esperar]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

You try to translate you alone the post.
You can use the hand dictionary by if you need to help with some words that you don't know them.

I want to know why some words are used, and sometimes if I translate them myself, it gets lost in translation.

[irmamar]

Originally Posted by Esperar

No entiendo bien. ¿Puede traduccion para mi, por favor? Entiendo sólo un poco de este.

¿Que "al" en tú condena?

¿Condena (conviction)? Corrección (correction)

Well, I'll try.

That's a good average. You'll learn soon. Although learning a language is a never ending work; I'm still learning Spanish (and I speak Spanish since I was a little girl).

Al día = per day.

[Esperar]

Originally Posted by irmamar

¿Condena (conviction)? Corrección (correction)

Well, I'll try.

That's a good average. You'll learn soon. Although learning a language is a never ending job; I'm still learning Spanish (and I speak Spanish since I was a little girl).

Al día = per day.

This is what I mean by being lost in translation. I don't like using my dictionary too much, because the wrong word gets used. I called myself a "estrella de rock" in my profile for example. LOL.

Why was "un día" wrong by the way? Does it not translate to "a day," or is "a day" not used in Spanish?

By the way, what is the right word for sentence? I can't find it.

[irmamar]

I wrote "job" but I think that sould have been "work", so I've just changed it. These are two words that always puzzle me.

Edit: I didn't see your question. You can say "en un día" instead in some sentences, but "al/a la" is used in averages: al año, al mes, al día, a la semana, a la hora, al minuto.

[Brandon]

Originally Posted by Esperar

Why was "un día" wrong by the way? Does it not translate to "a day," or is "a day" not used in Spanish?

By the way, what is the right word for sentence? I can't find it.

I believe that it is incorrect to use indirect articles as a measurement (5 miles an hour, 6 pages a day etc.)

The best way, that I know of, would be to say:

...seis páginas cada día.

Cada = Each

[irmamar]

"Seis páginas al día" is completely correct. Although you can say "cada día", too. But:

Como cada día.
Como al día.
Como una manzana al día.
Como una manzana cada día.

But "cada día" doesn't have that meaning of average that "al día" has.