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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5537 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 417 of 668 27 April 2014 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Lately this has been the case with me as well. The only TV show I watch with any consistency at the moment (in any language) is one episode of "Los Simpsons" each day. If I could maintain a steady pattern like that with Korean music shows, I wouldn't still be watching ones from mid-February...{sigh} But, The Simpsons (being a sitcom) is a lot shorter (about 24 minutes without ads) which makes a big difference (Korean music shows range from about 1 to 1.5 hrs without ads). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5377 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 418 of 668 27 April 2014 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, the Simpsons is so easy to watch. I notice that I move faster through the Simpsons than I do through other series... I did My Name is Earl which is a 30 minute sit com, but I still get through the Simpsons faster. I think it is because I don't mind watching two episodes in a row... or one in the evening and another in the morning.
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5867 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 419 of 668 27 April 2014 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||
http://pluschespirito.blogspot.com/p/ver-los-capitulos-del-c havo-del-8-on_29.html (Chespirito is the comic who wrote the show/played El Chavo) You could also try just searching Youtube, there's probably several "listas de reproducción" (such as this one). You could pick a list and just work your way through. There are also torrents available, i just found one with 260 episodes, though i don't think the quality is very good. EDIT: I also wanted to thank iguanamon for sharing the ¿Qué hora es? videos! Edited by Crush on 27 April 2014 at 9:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5377 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 420 of 668 04 May 2014 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Great. Those lists are better than the one I was using. Eventually I'll work through the episodes.
Quick update because I am on the road today for work in NYC and need to catch a bus in a few minutes. I've been maintaining my every day study of Spanish. Mostly just reading. I read from Man Economy and State. I am also watching the Simpsons every night. I spoke a lot of Spanish yesterday and this morning here in NYC. Spanish is everywhere. I think my Spanish is probably better than I sometimes think it is. I had a great talk with my waitor this morning. He was basically shocked that I could speak Spanish so well. He asked me where I was in the sense that, at least initially, he thought I was a Spanish speaker... at first he said "but you look so much like like a gringo." It was a very fun conversation. I also note that I am still uncomfortable when exactly to use usted. It just feels strange because I never use it. He was talking to me with usted and I tried to use it, but kept automatically slipping into tu. I really need to get the feel of that switch and when to use usted. I just don't have that "feel" for it like I do with the subjunctive and the two past tense forms. Hopefully it will just come to me as I keep progressing. Onward and upward. I am off to enjoy the city before I have to do more work... and hopefully use some Spanish. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5867 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 421 of 668 04 May 2014 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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As to when to use usted vs tú, it really varies from country to country (and perhaps even from region to region). In Spain, people i had any sort of connection with at all (the parents of the students i taught, for example), always told me to tutear. At shops and restaurants it was a bit different, but even then i think it was more common for the attendants to use usted than for the customers to. I have a feeling it's a bit more complicated in Latin America, though i still tend to favor (and feel more comfortable using) tú. The only times i really use usted in the US is when placing my order at a Mexican restaurant. Who knows, maybe it will get me a little extra guacamole in my burrito? ;)
In Spain, i used it more with the (older) homeless folks that i hung out with than with anyone else, maybe more to show that "no lxs menospreciaba". For the most part, everyone told me to use tú. Like you, though, it feels much more awkward to me to use the formal forms. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5377 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 422 of 668 05 May 2014 at 4:35am | IP Logged | ||
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I wish there was some sort of English equivalent. I have seen people suggest to use usted with someone you would say "mister" to or "sir" to, but that really does not seem to work well. It really just seems to be strange. All my skype partners use tu with me except one who just says it does not "feel" right to use tu with me. Who knows... one of the many misteries of Spanish I still have to figure out.
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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4624 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 423 of 668 05 May 2014 at 5:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Don't know if this helps or would be agreed upon everywhere, but my husband (Nicaraguan-born but US citizen) says he would use Usted with customers and any adult strangers (until they offer tú) and to anyone to whom you want to show respect, such as a much older person not in your family (someone you would say don or doña to), or to an authority figure like a judge or police officer or someone like that. With anyone else, tú is usually ok (and as a non-native speaker you usually get more tolerance anyway).
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| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4667 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 424 of 668 05 May 2014 at 11:13am | IP Logged | ||
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It varies quite a bit according to country. I have read that Colombians, for instances, use usted a bit differently, including parents with their children (!).
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