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xuxakat Tetraglot Newbie Germany Joined 4748 days ago 15 posts - 17 votes Speaks: German*, Italian, Spanish, English Studies: Turkish, Arabic (Levantine)
| Message 17 of 19 06 December 2011 at 2:21am | IP Logged |
Sorry, but I feel that "la clase es duro" sounds weird. Can you really use duro here?? I
thought you had to translate it as "dificil". I know that would be difficult, but "duro"
sounds really wrong to me...
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5226 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 18 of 19 06 December 2011 at 4:37pm | IP Logged |
xuxakat wrote:
Sorry, but I feel that "la clase es duro" sounds weird. |
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Of course, because it would be "dura", not "duro".
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Can you really use duro here?? I
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It's not. It's just a tad different from simply "difícil"; "difícil" would mean "hard to understand", "dura" would imply "hard to undergo" for whatever reasons (maybe just a flowery way to say "hard to understand").
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| kazordoon Bilingual Triglot Newbie Spain Joined 4780 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, English Studies: French
| Message 19 of 19 06 December 2011 at 8:24pm | IP Logged |
xuxakat wrote:
Sorry, but I feel that "la clase es duro" sounds weird. Can you really use duro here?? I
thought you had to translate it as "dificil". I know that would be difficult, but "duro"
sounds really wrong to me... |
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I agree with you. I'm a native Spanish speaker, and I would never say "la clase es dura". As I mentioned previously, I could say "el temario es duro" but never "la clase es dura"...it sounds as if the classroom was made of stone or something like that.
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