Forum: Suggestions & Feedback
July 11, 2008, 08:59 AM
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Forum: Vocabulary
July 11, 2008, 08:58 AM
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Sorry
Sorry, Rusty,
I was thinking more along the lines of: If you exercise every day it will make a world of difference in your health.
Or: His change in attitude made a world of difference in...
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Forum: Vocabulary
July 11, 2008, 08:19 AM
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Replies: 6
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Forum: Vocabulary
July 10, 2008, 03:10 PM
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Replies: 34
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Astibo por una rendija
Pues, me parece que este ejemplo significa que el personaje vió algo por la rendija no que lo escucho....
Me encantan los libros de Allende. Ahora estoy leyendo Retrato en Sepia.
:thinking:
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Forum: General Chat
July 10, 2008, 11:40 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 6,496
have fun!
Have a great vacation, Gemma! I've never been to London.
:)
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
July 03, 2008, 09:46 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 7,752
bubbler
Pero bubbler sólo se usa en WI, no en todo el norte del país...;)
Marsopa
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Forum: Daily Spanish Word
July 01, 2008, 11:12 AM
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Replies: 1
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
July 01, 2008, 11:11 AM
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Replies: 4
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Gracias, Sosia...
Pero "sigue siendo el mismo" suena un poco irónico, no?
Quizas no ha perdido práctica está mejor...:cool:
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Forum: Introductions
July 01, 2008, 09:56 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 4,001
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
July 01, 2008, 09:55 AM
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Replies: 4
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Lost his touch
Is there an expression for "After a week off for vacation, he hasn't lost his touch?"
Marsopa:thinking:
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Forum: Vocabulary
June 29, 2008, 07:57 PM
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Replies: 20
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Yet
Actually, I think that yet is a lot more flexible than that, and that what Alfonso wrote sounds okay.
I don't yet suffer from any of them
I don't suffer yet from any of them.
I don't suffer...
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
June 24, 2008, 08:38 AM
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Replies: 8
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Forum: Grammar
June 20, 2008, 10:42 AM
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Replies: 38
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Nice explanation,David
I think it was the best I have ever read!
However, it seems to me that I have heard cuál used before a noun in exclamations when expressing surprise.
¡Cuál regla!? (Like what rule are you...
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Forum: Other Languages
June 20, 2008, 09:48 AM
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Replies: 90
Views: 28,178
accents
Speaking of accents (I was just reading the rest of yesterday's thread), do you native Spanish speakers find a particular foreign accent in your language "ugly."
I was just wondering because to...
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
June 20, 2008, 09:40 AM
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Replies: 3
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meanings
tonta de remate--dumb as a doornail (hopelessly stupid)
poner al mal tiempo buena cara--put a good face on things
Leerle la cartilla--read him/her the riot act
llevarse un chasco--suffer...
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Forum: General Chat
June 19, 2008, 08:14 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,337
Hi, Gemma
Your comment about English in your signature intrigued me. I am always interested in what exactly people love about the languages they learn. I am a big fan of the verbs in Spanish which seem more...
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Forum: General Chat
June 17, 2008, 02:36 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 3,146
Never heard it either!
I have never heard the word invigilate before either, but I am looking forward to using it sometime!
If I can remember it.:thinking:
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Forum: General Chat
June 12, 2008, 12:52 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 5,206
Hi, Gemma
What age students do you teach?
It's nice to be appreciated!
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Forum: Grammar
June 12, 2008, 12:51 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 25,810
I agree with Rusty
Ahí is closer than allí.
I never thought much about allá, but that sounds right to me too.
:)
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Forum: Other Languages
June 08, 2008, 04:28 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 38,845
mandarin
My daughter is starting Mandarin in the fall for a three year pilot program. She will be in eighth grade. A teacher is coming from China for three years. I told her she has to teach me whatever...
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Forum: Vocabulary
June 07, 2008, 12:55 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 13,842
Both
I dream in both (mostly English though). What is really fun is when I dream in a language I don't actually know well enough to speak and yet in the dream it comes out perfectly. Sometimes I have...
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Forum: Introductions
June 03, 2008, 12:56 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,164
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Forum: Vocabulary
May 26, 2008, 10:00 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 14,652
cursi
I always thought that cursi meant something more along the line of tacky...
Marsopa
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
May 25, 2008, 07:13 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 5,882
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Forum: General Chat
May 25, 2008, 07:11 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,782
Yes, but...
aren't they also completely vulnerable to flattery and being idolized? I think the key is in how she "listened with sparkling eyes to everything he said..." :)
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