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es esta la canción ? Mira, he puesto: 1. Aberdeen, escocia 2. Lund, suecia 3. Glasgow, escocia 4. Estocolmo, suecia 5. Gante, bélgica Que yo sepa no tengo que hacer ninguna prueba del idioma porque de hecho ya tengo el FCE en inglés y ahora estoy haciendo un curso de preparación del CAE porque quiero presentarme a hacer este examen en junio y este certificado es válido a casi todas las universidades británicas. como te está yendo la experiencia de estar a fuera ? otra cosa, portugal fue tu primera preferencia o no ??

no es este, no?? http://videos.orange.es/video/iLyROoaft0dv.html

ya he vuelto!! :D lo buscaré a ver si tengo más suerte... pues todo me va bien, resulta que ayer entregué mi solicitud para irme de erasmus el semestre que viene!!! y tú que tal todo?

de que anuncio se trata, quizás se encuentre en algun lugar ? bueno, yo casi estoy segura que el grafiti es posterior a la canción, de alguno de sus fans!! haha :lol: ahora vuelvo!

andaaa, yo veo la fly music!!! quizas si miras en fly top te suena el nombre o algo?? flymusic

debe de estar!!! mira, hay una banda que se parece muchísimo (por lo menos esta canción) a los Arctic Monkeys, especialmente a una de sus canciones que se llama If you were there, beware aqui estan!!!

aaah, pero si está aqui mismo el thread y no me había ni dado cuenta!! me puedes dar algun link (youtube) de esta banda que dices que suenan como los arctic monkeys? si supongo que a unos les costará más que a otros aprender el idioma... : \

Do it! He's always the one who's asking you to go out, right? So I bet that he's expecting you to do this too at times. And I'm sure he really wants to meet you on Weds.

aah, that's good!! :nice: I just wanted to help you. I wanted you to focus on what you write and say... because it's the only way to improve a language (unless you're someone gifted for that, but I don't think it's your case - and neither is mine -).

Oh wait. Google can help you quite a lot me thinks. Of course not using the google translator but... I'll give you an example. Imagine you want to use a spanish word / expression and you're not sure if you've spelled it properly, or if it actually is a spanish expression, whatev. Well, you can type it on google and make a search of it and if it finds coherent results, then this phrase/word that you've thought about is probably correct Please, use the dictionary! DO IT. http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=guapo How can you say that "embarazada" has something to do with Journalism? :stunned: :uhoh: EMBARAZADA is such a common adjective, you should know its meaning! http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=embarazada She is pregnant! That's what embarazada means. It has nothing to do with being embarrassed in English, by the way, just in case this idea came across your mind. And about Extremadura, it is an autonomous community of western Spain. Felipe es de "Extremadura? <-- this means he's from Extremadura. I'm not angry with (why should I?) :wings: but to be honest it surprises me a lot that there are so many usual words/ sentences that you still don't know in spite of having taken Spanish lessons and living here. :( Seriously, you should do your best to improve Spanish (forget about Catalan) :smiley:

oh my, poor thing! I didn't expect it would take you so much time to do those essays.

(f) Las tiendas del mis barrios es mejors por que estas mas baratas. Tiendas is plural so this means that you've got to use the plural form of the verb ser. mm, why did you change the second verb ser to estar? :surprised: Las tiendas de mi barrio son mejores porque son más baratas. (m) Uno los chico Regreso manana "Uno de los chicos" is the 3rd person of the singular. 1a persona singular Yo regreso 2a persona singular Tú regresas 3a persona singular Él regresa <------ and this is the one that you need to use in this case. Uno de los chicos regresa mañana. Ahora el joven hermano es solo aquí en Barcelona = (Ser) you need to use a possessive pronoun (like his, hers, theirs, yours, etc in English). El isn't a possessive pronoum. Just to mention a few in Spanish: su, sus, el suyo, la suya. In this case: Su hermano joven está solo en Barcelona. su joven hermano has nothing to do with the original meaning. This means that his brother is young not that he is his younger brother!!! You shouldn't use SER in this context, because being in Barcelona is something temporal and usually, in spanish when we talk about temporal facts we use the verb ESTAR. When you've got to use the verb "to be" and translate it into Spanish, you should think about the meaning and context of the sentence you're going to write. If you're talking about something TEMPORAL; you've got to use the verb ESTAR if not, you should use the verb SER. I hope I got this right now…. Yes I do and I wish I did not transalate, some of my better phrases, I have just heard people say, and I don´t know Never never tranlaste word by word. I'd rather say, read the whole sentence and then translate it. mmm, well, people don't really say these sentences this way... :thinking: Something that may help you quite a lot: ~~~This dictionary~~~ when you don't know a word or expression check it out there.

me no gustan las tiendas turasitas del centro de cuidad. Por que es más caro.. Las tiendas de mi barrio es mejor por que es mas barato These sentences make sense and are understandable but I'd like you to write them well, without grammar mistakes, etc. I'm going to give you some clues. 1) Is tiendas plural or singular? Once you've replied this, you should put the correct form of the verb (ser) and the adjectives (caro, barato, mejor). If tiendas is singular, you've got to write the verb and the adjectives in singular, if not, you should write them in plural. una los chicos de Lisboa es Regresa "Lisboa" manana. Is chicos feminine or masculine? when you know this, you've to check the way you've written the article "una". The words have to agree in gender and number. Els joven hermano es ahora solo en Barcelona, pero el teine yo 1.) Is joven hermano plural or singular? Re-check the article you've written for joven hermano. his younger brother Anyway, this is incorrect in this sentence because you need a a possessive pronoun. Try to think of some in spanish... 2) Which verb do you need to use in the context of this sentence: SER or ESTAR?! _____ I can't help you any more with this. You should focus on what you're writing and think that the fact that the sentence makes sense to us (Spanish people) isn't enough for having a "good" spanish. Also, it's much better writing only a line and revising it over and over again than wanting to write more and not paying all your attention to what you're saying. Another important advice: don't translate english into spanish word by word because it NEVER works since the structures, word order, verbs, etc etc of both languages are way too different (and I've just realised that you translate word by word!! :surprised: ). I've got to say that loads of Spaniards do this and then, what they say or write in English don't make sense and has a lot of mistakes. I hope you don't get me (or this) wrong. It's just that if you really want to improve your Spanish, you have to try to think in this language, forget translations and pay all of your attention to every single thing that you're writing/ typing otherwise you won't make progress. And I'm saying this because I bet that you feel like having a good spanish. What's more, for example, when I joined in this forum my English was HOORRIBLEEEEE but I did my best so as to improve it (just what I told you above) and I've got the proof that all the efforts that I made have worked.

well done, because if you don't remember both I'll have to :whip: you!!! hahaha :lol:

ah, now I understand. well, if you say "no es barato" meaning it's expensive everyone will understand you but me thinks you should also know the word "caro"... because we use it a lot too.

yeah exactly "esto no es caro" = "this isn't expensive" = cheap or same with barato "esto no es barato" = "this isn't cheap" = caro

^ I don't get it :( no no es barato isn't a word although we say at times no es barato just to say that something is expensive to a certain extent. I mean, I don't understand which one you learnt first and which was the problem. Caro = expensive Barato = cheap

no es caro = es barato ah, yo estuve en istanbul hace 3 años (en verano) y la verdad es que me gustó mucho y no me importaría volver alli! Tan solo pase una semana y se me hizo corto.

unas vacaciones lejos de aqui? aah... no tengo ni la menor idea de que haré en vacaciones. Está demasiado lejos y ahora mismo tengo otras historias en mi cabeza.

como es que no has ido al republic house durante todo este tiempo?

si, ha sido buena... pero aun queda el fin de semana! he estado bastante ocupada con el tema de la uni de todos modos. y tu que tal?

I want to login on last.fm but I can't. :( hope my account hasnt been hacked or sth

you're welcome! :dance: yep, estoy aqui un ratito! hehe, after some time of not being online.

mr Daryl :P you look cool with these sunglasses !

well, I find it attractive to be honest, of course not IN ACTION... :P Anyway I'm not the only one who does.