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It's never too late to start and it's never too soon to quit
For "It's never too late to start and it's never too soon to quit" I just made up
Nunca es tarde para comenzar, tampoco temprano para abandonar but would like to hear any better way to say it. It's a good thing to say. |
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It sounds OK. Maybe you can say no existe un tiempo inoportuno para aprender
ni para abandoner sus estudios.--- or something like that.
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I propose "...ni demasiado
"Temprano" is normally used for "early" when talking about hours of the day, and "abandonar" needs the complement "¿abandonar qué?"
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Nunca es tarde para empezar ni pronto para abandonar.
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Thanks to both. I can use both suggestions. Hey aleC, just out of curiosity why empezar instead of comenzar?
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Regional and personal preference. To me empezar is more related with having a beginning and comenzar more related with beginning, though are almost interchangeable:
La función (de cine, de teatro) comienza a las 9 y termina a las 11. Nunca dejes sin acabar/terminar lo que empezaste.
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