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Greendog
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Message 9 of 12

08 July 2011 at 7:53pm | IP Logged

Yup I definitely mixed up Spanish and French in this case. Thanks for the correction!
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Animalia
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Message 10 of 12

08 July 2011 at 9:08pm | IP Logged

Thanks everyone for the replies!
Looks like I still have alot to learn on even a basic level =X

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Superking
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Message 11 of 12

12 July 2011 at 10:02pm | IP Logged

Hierbabuena wrote:

Animalia wrote:

I kind of ran my thoughts together in my Spanish sentence. I was trying to get across.
Estoy estudíendo Español. Yo practicé en la escuela por tres años pero hablo muy poco.
(I am studying Spanish.) (I practiced in school for three years but speak very little)

Does that sound better?

I would write it this way:

Estoy estudiando/estudio español. Lo estudié en la escuela (durante) tres años, pero
sólo hablo un poco.

In Spanish, at least in Spain, in this context 'practiqué' doesn't work, I think that
because to practise something you need to have learned it before so it looks like some
information is missing.

About por/durante, sometimes 'por' can be use as 'for', but in this context, again at
least in Spain, we would use 'durante'.

I'd like to provide some contrast, since Latin American Spanish (my specialty) and Spanish in Spain are quite different in some ways.

I do agree that using "practicar" there makes it sound like you had previously learned it and are just brushing up, so to speak. But in all the varieties of Spanish I'm familiar with here in North/South America, "por" is preferred over "durante" to express time the way it's being expressed in the original post. Although it should be noted that the por/durante could probably be omitted altogether, without making the sentence incorrect most of the time.
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Phantom Kat
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Message 12 of 12

13 July 2011 at 12:38am | IP Logged

I would use "por" instead of "durante". While durante is correct, it's not really the word I would use in this context. (I'm from Mexico.)

- Kat

Edited by Phantom Kat on 13 July 2011 at 12:38am

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