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Hello my friends! I recently found a Spanish practice group that is both in my neighborhood, and meets weekly in a bar. So I am re-energized in my language practice, after losing my talk buddy a while ago. (He was maybe looking to help a young woman, and not an old man.) Also he has lived here for almost 10 years, and he was way ahead of me in mastery of English relative to my non-mastery of Spanish.
Our board has a number of native speakers and other very fluent speakers, of both Spanish and French and other languages. I believe we also have many Spanish learners, or hopeful learners. I have a French interest left from a couple years of study in university which has been rekindled by my recent acquaintance with a marvelous café, Le Pichet. Yesterday I was sitting at their zinc bar and chatting with some staff who were relaxing with drinks after a long busy Memorial Sunday, I ordered a Calvados which I unfortunately accented as if it were a Spanish word. They were so cool- a nice Boulard was poured and the bartender said “here is your Calvados”- pronouncing it in the unaccented French manner rather than my mispronunciation of Calvádos. I have been drinking this stuff and offering it to friends for several decades, and mispronouncing it all the while.
Incidentally, if any of you travel to Seattle, this is a super spot, wonderful food, nice wine list, good mixed drinks, fancy beers, and a very pleasant staff and ambience. And it is all quite nicely priced. Not dollar menu at Micky’s, but almost cheap. It is on the west side of the street on 1st Ave at Virginia, just a couple blocks north of the Pike Street Market
What I am hoping for is that someone might post a sentence (in whatever language), and try to say the same meaning in the target language. Or alternatively, if one is struggling with the meaning of a phrase or sentence in the target language, attempt to give a colloquial translation. In this way I hope that our experts will not feel abused by being used as unpaid translators.
I took out the garbage- I wondered how to say this is Spanish- so here goes-present (I take out the garbage) saco la basura. I took out the garbage-saqué la basura.
Thanks. I hope this thread proves popular. I plan to make a database of these usful phrases and sentences so I can know them once and for all.
Ha
Our board has a number of native speakers and other very fluent speakers, of both Spanish and French and other languages. I believe we also have many Spanish learners, or hopeful learners. I have a French interest left from a couple years of study in university which has been rekindled by my recent acquaintance with a marvelous café, Le Pichet. Yesterday I was sitting at their zinc bar and chatting with some staff who were relaxing with drinks after a long busy Memorial Sunday, I ordered a Calvados which I unfortunately accented as if it were a Spanish word. They were so cool- a nice Boulard was poured and the bartender said “here is your Calvados”- pronouncing it in the unaccented French manner rather than my mispronunciation of Calvádos. I have been drinking this stuff and offering it to friends for several decades, and mispronouncing it all the while.
Incidentally, if any of you travel to Seattle, this is a super spot, wonderful food, nice wine list, good mixed drinks, fancy beers, and a very pleasant staff and ambience. And it is all quite nicely priced. Not dollar menu at Micky’s, but almost cheap. It is on the west side of the street on 1st Ave at Virginia, just a couple blocks north of the Pike Street Market
What I am hoping for is that someone might post a sentence (in whatever language), and try to say the same meaning in the target language. Or alternatively, if one is struggling with the meaning of a phrase or sentence in the target language, attempt to give a colloquial translation. In this way I hope that our experts will not feel abused by being used as unpaid translators.
I took out the garbage- I wondered how to say this is Spanish- so here goes-present (I take out the garbage) saco la basura. I took out the garbage-saqué la basura.
Thanks. I hope this thread proves popular. I plan to make a database of these usful phrases and sentences so I can know them once and for all.
Ha