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Old March 21, 2013, 06:24 AM
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Hi from Spain!

Hi! I am a native spanish and I want to improve my english with english or american natives. I have not a fluent english and we could learn together: you could learn spanish and I could improve my english. I am a sensible and serious person and I want to learn while I´m teaching...I speak spanish (the spanish spoken in Spain, the original one)

(I don´t know if this kind of messagges are allowed in this forum)

Thank you very much in advance
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Old March 21, 2013, 07:14 AM
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Hi! I am a native spanish and I want to improve my english with english or american natives. I have not a fluent english and we could learn together: you could learn spanish and I could improve my english. I am a sensible and serious person and I want to learn while I´m teaching...I speak spanish (the spanish spoken in Spain, the original one)

(I don´t know if this kind of messagges are allowed in this forum)

Thank you very much in advance
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Old March 21, 2013, 11:26 AM
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Hola, donde vives en Espana? Tengo amigos de Madrid. Cuantos anos tienes? y por que quieres aprender espanol (instead of) otros idiomas? Por favor, escriba en ingles. (y tambien por favor corrigame con mi mal espanol!
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Old March 21, 2013, 11:35 AM
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HI! I live in Madrid (I was born in Madrid). My mother language is spanish. I thought I spoke a pretty english since I first travelled abroad...I studied english a lot of years ago but when I travel abroad I realize I have lost a lot of vocabulary and I speak a very academic english, not the real english spoken on ¿in? the streets. I like to improve my english and help others to improve their spanish.

And now...Hola, dónde vives en Espana? Tengo amigos de Madrid. Cuántos anos tienes? y por qué quieres aprender espanol (instead of= en lugar de) otros idiomas? Por favor, escriba en inglés. (y tambien por favor corríjame con mi mal espanol!

Of couse you didn´t use Ñ letter but I understand...My name has an Ñ letter and I´ve had a lot of problems when I travel because sometimes, for example, I can´t book a flight or a hotel room with my name, so I have to use MARÏA, and then the name on the credit card is not the same as the one shown on my passport. What a mess!

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wow, que rico! me llamo es Joe, so muchos personas saben mi llama haha.

HI! I live in Madrid (I was born in Madrid). My native language is spanish. I thought I spoke a pretty english since I first travelled abroad...I studied english [COLOR="rgb(46, 139, 87)"]many[/COLOR] years ago but when I travel abroad I realize I have lost a lot of vocabulary and I speak a very academic english, not the real english spoken [COLOR="rgb(46, 139, 87)"]in[/COLOR] the streets. I like to improve my english and help others to improve their spanish.

entonces, gracias para me ayudas? (thank you for helping me). Y yo puedo ayudar tu tambien. Que cosas te gusta hacer en Madrid? yo aplico por un (internship) en Madrid por la (Fall?) semestre! :P
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Old March 21, 2013, 12:17 PM
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wow, que rico! me llamo es Joe, so muchos personas saben mi llama haha.

HI! I live in Madrid (I was born in Madrid). My native language is spanish. I thought I spoke a pretty english since I first travelled abroad...I studied english [COLOR="rgb(46, 139, 87)"]many[/COLOR] years ago but when I travel abroad I realize I have lost a lot of vocabulary and I speak a very academic english, not the real english spoken [COLOR="rgb(46, 139, 87)"]in[/COLOR] the streets. I like to improve my english and help others to improve their spanish.

entonces, gracias para me ayudas? (thank you for helping me). Y yo puedo ayudar tu tambien. Que cosas te gusta hacer en Madrid? yo aplico por un (internship) en Madrid por la (Fall?) semestre! :P
Firstly...in spanish we never say ¡qué rico!, only when we are eating, for example an ice cream. Better you say....¡qué bien!. Qué rico is used in America.

entonces, gracias. para me ayudas? (thank you for helping me= gracias por ayudarme). Y yo puedo ayudar tu tambien. Yo puedo ayudarte también. Que cosas te gusta hacer en Madrid? yo aplico por un (internship) en Madrid por la (Fall?) semestre! Haré unas prácticas en Madrid en otoño
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HI! I live in Madrid (I was born in Madrid). My mother language is spanish. I thought I spoke a pretty english since I first travelled abroad...I studied english a lot of years ago but when I travel abroad I realize I have lost a lot of vocabulary and I speak a very academic english, not the real english spoken on ¿in? the streets. I like to improve my english and help others to improve their spanish.
A couple of notes from above.

"mother language" is not commonly used in America. We use "native language".
Capitalize Spanish and English to be correct.

" I thought I spoke a pretty english since I first travelled abroad..." - I am not sure what you are saying here.

Do you mean: "I thought I spoke English pretty well until I first traveled abroad" ? - That is what I think you meant, but I am not sure.

"I studied english a lot of years ago"

Depending on what you want to say:
"I studied English many years ago" or "I studied English a lot many years ago"

For the last sentence, do you mean "I like" or "I would like"?
"Me gusta..." or "Me gustaría..."?

Hopefully the corrections help you improve. Welcome to the forums!
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Hi awaken
Thank you for your answer.

Yes, I wanted to say "I thought I spoke English pretty well until I first traveled abroad". As you can see I have many mistakes.
Yes, for the last sentence I wanted to say: "I´d like".

Thank you very much again!
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Hola Nativespanish;

Quería aclarar algo sobre tu puntualización acerca de la expresión "qué rico" (haciendo honor a mi nombre haha)

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Firstly...in spanish we never say ¡qué rico!, only when we are eating, for example an ice cream. Better you say....¡qué bien!. Qué rico is used in America.
Es cierto que, ante la alegría por la contestación de un mensaje, encaja más adecuadamente la expresión que has señalado "qué bien!"

Sin embargo, "qué rico" sí es una expresión usada en España, y no en su variante de "qué sabroso" como sería tu ejemplo del helado; sino como un gesto de cariño o gracia.
Así podemos encontrarlo en la RAE -> http://lema.rae.es/drae/?val=rico
En concreto, en sus acepciones 7)"Dicho especialmente de un niño: Bonito y a la vez gracioso, encantador. ¡Qué niños más ricos tiene!" y 8)adj. coloq. U. aplicado a las personas como expresión de cariño."

Un saludo!
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QuéRico tiene razón sobre la expresión "qué rico"...

However, in the context used by "Animo", we don't say "qué rico" as Nativespanish correctly points out...
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