¿Qué tal la comida?

[literacola]

Hola a todos. Un semestre nuevo acaba de empezar en mi escuela y en la clase de español hemos empezado estudiar la comida.

Me pregunto, ¿qué es su comida favorita y por qué?

[laepelba]

Me gusta mucho marisos. No me gusta pescados. Pero me gusta camarón, calamar, conchas de peregrino, mejillones, ostras, almejas, y langosta. La langosta es mi favorito. ¿Por qué? No sé. Simplemente porque...

[Jessica]

I love Chinese food, because we're Chinese, of course. there are lots of Chinese dishes I can name, but the best of them all I don't know the English name and only the Chinese name.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by literacola

Hola a todos. Un semestre nuevo acaba de empezar en mi escuela y en la clase de español hemos empezado a estudiar la comida.

¿Cuál es su comida favorita y por qué?

In Spanish, the phrase I wonder is rendered by asking your question using the future tense, as in ¿Vendrá ella? (I wonder if she's coming.) I converted your question to a direct question instead.

Originally Posted by laepelba

Me gustan mucho los mariscos, pero no me gusta el pescados. Pero Me gustan los camarones, los calamares, las vieiras (conchas de peregrino), los mejillones, las ostras, las almejas, y las langostas. La langosta es mi (comida) favorita. ¿Por qué? No sé. Simplemente porque...

[laepelba]

Thanks again, Rusty. I forgot that the definite article is used a lot more in Spanish than in English. Very helpful!

[literacola]

Originally Posted by Rusty

In Spanish, the phrase I wonder is rendered by asking your question using the future tense, as in ¿Vendrá ella? (I wonder if she's coming.) I converted your question to a direct question instead.

Gracias Rusty. So preguntarse should be used for something that is more internal, instead of "wondering" about someone elses feelings or motives? Like

I am asking myself if I am doing this correctly


and not

I am wondering if she is coming


or is preguntarse not used often at all?

[CrOtALiTo]

Ok, I answering your questions, I don't like the seafood less the fish, for me it's nasty, I like the Mexican food, as the Posole, Borrego, and I like so much the food named Mole, Have you heard about of the Mole?

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by literacola

Gracias Rusty. So preguntarse should be used for something that is more internal, instead of "wondering" about someone elses feelings or motives? Like
I am asking myself if I am doing this correctly
and not
I am wondering if she is coming
or is preguntarse not used often at all?

Preguntarse is certainly used, and it means to wonder, but I don't believe it's used as often as the future tense form. Maybe a native speaker could chime in.

[literacola]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

Ok, I answering your questions, I don't like the seafood less the fish, for me it's nasty, I like the Mexican food, as the Posole, Borrego, and I like so much the food named Mole, Have you heard about of the Mole?

Yes. I had Mole at a local restaurant the other night actually. I like it very much. I must say that Mexican food is one of my favorites.

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes, my mate, I like the Mexican food is very delicious, and if you have some chance of visit my country, I recommend, you should to go to Veracruz or Merida, there there are much types of food made of sundries cultures, Merida on exist a food very delicious named Cochinita.

[sosia]

me gustan los lácteos (yogur, flan, helados, etc.)
Me gusta el arroz y la pasta.
Me gusta más la carne que el pescado.
No suelo comer ni el marisco ni las setas. Saben poco para lo mucho que cuestan.
Saludos

[poli]

Creo que mi comida preferida es la humilde pizza bien hecha. No es fácil encontrar una buena pizza napólitana, pero la búsqueda vale la pena.

[laepelba]

Figures a New Yorker will mention pizza.

[poli]

Es verdad, la pizza muy neoyorquina, pero lamentablamente hay pocos sitios aquí en que se encuentra la pizza perfectaSin embargo casi todas las pizzerías y restaurantes con pizza en el menú produce mejores pizzas que se vende en Pizza Hut o Dominos.

[laepelba]

Poli - I sort of follow what you're saying (I'm new to spanish!) Please tell me what is "lamentablamente". Thanks!

[Rusty]

I know he's responding. I'll let him tell you.
Some dictionaries don't list it (and it's spelled lamentablemente, by the way). There are synonyms that could be used instead.

[poli]

It means lamentably. You probably know this, but if you don't, one of the good things about studying Spanish is the similarity in vocabulary that the two languages share. There are pitfalls though, because false cognates which are words that appear the same but do not share the same meaning are very common. If you study the false cognates, you may find they have the same roots in Latin but with meanings that have diverged over the centuries. It's a very good idea to study false cognates.

A lot of the words that translate directly from Spanish to English are
high-toned multisyllabic words. Studying Spanish is paradoxically a good
way of improving English vocabulary.

[laepelba]

Got it. Study the false cognates.

BUT ... I figured that it means lamentably. Unfortunately, that then means that I don't understand the rest of the sentence because it doesn't make sense to me. It sounds like he's saying that "lamentably, there are few restaurants that have the perfect pizza", and then he says "nevertheless, almost all the pizzerias and restaurants with pizza on the menu have better pizza than is sold at Pizza Hut or Dominos." Is that right? So he's lamenting the fact that there is no perfect pizza? Aren't our expectations a little high?

[CrOtALiTo]

Also I like the pizza made of the Comerzial Mexicana.


The word lamentable could mean sundry things above your questions, the I recommend, if you can surf at the internet and find the meaning of the word is better than supposed the contrary.

[Marsopa]

Hey, Jessica,

If you have any recipes (easy), I would love to try them! I love Chinese food. I have been watching movies in Chinese with my daughter who is studying it (Eat Man, Drink Woman and Mulan). It's fun that she is so excited about learning it and the culture.

Marsopa