Hola Amigos

Hola Amigos
 

Hola, me llamo Paddy, y soy de Escocia. :)



Anyway, i'm trying to teach myself spanish, it is currently very poor, and i am having to use a translator, i'm hoping using this forum will help.

Hola, y bienvenido a los foros.

Gracias amigo mio



^^^ is that the correct phrase, for thankyou my friend?

It's a correct phrase, yes. You could also say "Gracias, mi amigo", or simply "Gracias, amigo".

Whenever correct spelling matters, mío bears an acute accent over the letter i.

When you are editing a forum post, there is a drop-down list with the label "Accents" in the formatting bar at the top of the edit window. You can use it to insert vowels with acute accents, upper- and lowercase ñ, and the punctuation marks ¿, ¡, «, and ».

yeah i noticed the accents box, thanks mate, wasn't aware that there was an accent over the "i" ....Gracias

¿Hay una diferencia entre "Gracias, mi amigo" y "Gracias, amigo mío"? ¿Es uno de los más formal o son igual?

... es uno de ellos ... son iguales

The latter is a pronoun. The former is a possessive determiner. There is a difference in meaning. The pronoun tends to be used if speaking more poetically or in an endearing way. It will sound quaint to some people.

Hello, welcome from me. An unexpected combination of name and country. :)

Gracias Perikles.

My name is an Irish name.....it is the nickname for Patrick, which is my real name.

So I can say "Computadora mía es muy lento." and it makes it sound more quaint?

La computadora mía es muy lenta. :)

Yes, indeed, this sounds muy anticuada.
However, if someone were asking which computer was slower, yours or someone else's, it would be fine to use the possessive pronoun in your answer.

¿Cuál computadora es más lenta?
La mía (es más lenta).

"Mi/tu/su/nuestra/vuestra computador" CANNOT have an article or demonstrative pronoun: one CANNOT say "la/una/esta/esa/aquella mi computadora". "Mi computadora" is equivalent to "la computadora mía".

"? computadora mía/tuya/suya/nuestra/vuestra" MUST have an article, demonstrative pronoun, or an alternate determiner such as "otra" before the noun: one MUST say "la/una/esta/esa/aquella/otra/(etc) computadora mía".

Time before I used the translator when I was starting in this ambit, when recently I started, I arrived to use the translator several times, but the people told me a lot times that my post was bad written, for that reason I decided to leave of use the translator and better I study hard all the days for learn new words for my speed the tomisimo's dictionary was useful during long time for me, already I have used less the translators, only I use them when I need to rectify some text or paragraph when I'm not sure of some words.

I hope you can learn more and you can get better each day for yourself.

Greetings.:)

welcome, Paddy. good luck improving your Spanish