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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5007 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 233 of 319 03 March 2014 at 4:30am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
Corrections.
¿Por qué [...] de qué tratará la revista. Sorry everyone if I've missed something else lately, I've been lagging behind for a while. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5316 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 234 of 319 03 March 2014 at 4:38am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I knew that "Se parece" didn't sound quite right for addressing multiple people, but I just couldn't seem to come up with a version that sounded better at the time so I went with it. Thanks. :)
Honestly, it's mostly because it takes a while to generate that much so I usually get tired/bored before that point and just switch back into English. I think the more I post, though, the less I have to constantly look up everything since I can usually remember the phrasings that I've used previously. As a bit of a false beginner (though I've studied it enough over the years that my learning is accelerating much more quickly than I expected this time around), I frequently find myself trying to generate something in Spanish but then realize I simply don't know how to state that concept in Spanish yet. So rather than just taking a stab based on English phrasing (which is often quite wrong), I usually do some searching on WordReference first to try to find how that type of concept is worded in Spanish. This doesn't make for very fast Spanish production, but I feel it is better than getting in the bad habit of generating a lot of incorrect Spanish.
I actually got that from two places. 1) The Spanish site I found which has information about this show is called that: http://buffy-lacazavampiros.blogspot.com/ 2) On the videos I'm watching, the voiceover during the title screen (when "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" appears on screen during the intro) says the phrase "Buffy la casavampiros" quite clearly. That said, the alternate version I found for season 1 disc 1 (which I'm pretty sure was continental Spanish) has no voiceover at all during the intro, so perhaps the series is named differently in different regions. I know the ones I'm watching aren't from US region DVDs as the US version only had English and French for seasons 1 and 2 (Spanish didn't show up until season 3 on the US DVDs), so I'm assuming they are from somewhere in Latin America (as it sounds like Latin American Spanish).
Muchas gracias. :) Edited by Warp3 on 03 March 2014 at 4:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5646 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 235 of 319 03 March 2014 at 5:42am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Tenía dudas sobre si poner o no ese "se", al final hice algunas búsquedas en Google y vi varios resultados como "de qué se trata la película/el libro/etc." y lo dejé. Gracias de nuevo, mrwarper :)
En cuanto a Buffy, Wikipedia dice:
Yo siempre había oído la primera versión, pero tampoco he visto nunca la serie así que tendré que fiarme de lo que dice Wikipedia. Y Warp3, me sorprendió un montón leer que acababas de comprar Pimsleur IV. Escribes muy bien, ¿no te será demasiado fácil? O ¿es que Pimsleur de repente se ha puesto las pilas y está produciendo cursos de primera? ¡Deberías escribir más en castellano! "Se parece" se usa para decir que una persona o una cosa "se parece" (es parecida) a otra. Por ejemplo, "Tu tío se parece mucho a mi padre" o, para prepararte para People en español, "Shakira y yo nos parecemos mucho". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5316 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 236 of 319 03 March 2014 at 6:02am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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The reason I bought Pimsleur IV is that I began my reintroduction to Spanish by doing a
review pass of Pimsleur (then later added Destinos in parallel). Since Pimsleur IV was not yet available last time I was studying Spanish I did not yet own it. Pimsleur I was almost entirely simple review to me, but the farther I got into Pimsleur II and Pimsleur III the more concepts I found myself relearning (some of which I only barely recall learning previously since it had been a couple years since I dropped Spanish last time), so I'm definitely still actively learning from this series. In addition, Pimsleur helps me with speaking production, which requires a much faster thought process compared to the slow speed with which I write my Spanish posts here. In other words, most of the things I learn in Pimsleur aren't nearly as complex as what I write in Spanish, but I can produce those phrases and constructions in real-time, which is most definitely not the case for most of my writing. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4670 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 237 of 319 04 March 2014 at 2:47am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
I feel the same way! I think part of it is that I know my friends speak English, so it feels more awkward to switch to a language that I struggle with. And ... I've been lurking, and will still follow you guys, but I don't think I'm going to be doing much Spanish this year. Blame it on Italian. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4403 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 238 of 319 04 March 2014 at 3:37am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Just for fun, here's a short article about the winner of the Oscar for best director, Alfonso Cuarón, which includes
the Spanish language trailer for "Gravity". Perfil de Alfonso Cuarón Some film-related vocabulary: cineasta -filmmaker guión-screenplay largometraje-feature length film cortometraje-short 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5316 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 239 of 319 07 March 2014 at 1:12pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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I started Pimsleur Spanish IV this week and had to comment on the voice actors they
used. The English narrator and Spanish male speaker are the same as they have used for previous lessons. The Spanish female speaker is new and has a pronunciation quirk that still throws me somewhat: the "d" in "del" seems to disappear when she says phrases like "hablarémos del proyecto". You can hear it when they introduce the phrase and she is saying each part slowly and you can hear it when the male speaker or Spanish narrator says it regardless of speed, but when she says it at normal speed it turns into "hablarémos el proyecto" to my ears. Oddly when they switch it up to "hablarémos del progreso del proyecto" later on the second "del" is perfectly audible and the "d" only seems to vanish from the first one. The other voice change is the Spanish narrator. I didn't notice anything odd about his voice at first, just that it was a different person, but then it suddenly hit me: he sounds almost exactly like the soft-spoken, elderly-voiced narrator from the "Winnie the Pooh" cartoon series (or like that narrator would sound were he speaking Spanish, anyway). Now that I've made this connection, it makes his dialog more humorous to me than it probably should be. ---- On a different topic, any thoughts on a March challenge for Team Lobo? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4803 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 240 of 319 14 March 2014 at 11:28am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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@warp 3
If you like Pimsleur so much, you will definitely want to get your hands on "Learning Spanish like Crazy". It is basically Pimsleur on steroids. More vocab right from the start, more grammar covered etc. I am sure you will love it. And if you really like this type of program, eventually you may want to bite the bullet and tackle FSI BASIC/ Platiquemos. Nothing will challenge you more, or push your Spanish further than that course. As an aside, what has happened to this thread? No one has posted here in about a week. Who is still with us? Edited by dbag on 14 March 2014 at 11:28am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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