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My name is Margaret Nahmias. I fit the name of this group. I like learning a little about even languages I have not studied. My native language is English and I am fluent in Spanish and know a little of Brazilian Portuguese. If anyone wants to know my history with Spanish I can post in the group. In my main journal I have some entries in ( Read more... )

spanish, introductions

Spanish pronunciation and spelling rules

dorsetgirl wrote in linguaphiles Mar 08, 2017 09:54

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The Mexican band Maná have a lead singer whose full name is apparently José Fernando Emilio Olvera Sierra. He's normally known as Fher Olvera ( Read more... )

pronunciation, spanish, spelling, catalan

vos when used with tú + usted

aindreas wrote in linguaphiles Dec 11, 2016 17:06

Could someone please explain to me or point me to resources (in Spanish or English) on the relationship between vos + tú + usted in countries where all three are used side by side? As far as I understand, this mostly exludes Rioplatense Spanish. I was recently thrown for a loop with verbs of address by meeting some brothers from Colombia who ( Read more... )

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Switch from usted to tú

aindreas wrote in linguaphiles Feb 18, 2016 13:34

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LZ18ycDK90

In this video of a witness testimony at the George Zimmerman trial, the interpreter uses usted (as to be expected) until about 23:30, at which point he has a brief moment of clarification with the witness regarding pronouns in her ( Read more... )

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Medical Spanish resources

aindreas wrote in linguaphiles Jan 12, 2016 11:30

I'm preparing for certification as a medical interpreter in my state and am hunting down useful materials. Most books out there on medical Spanish seem to be aimed at health care professionals who do not speak Spanish already ( Read more... )

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Ricky Martin's Portuguese Etc.

aindreas wrote in linguaphiles Sep 15, 2015 00:31

I ran across this video of Ricky Martin being interviewed in Portuguese:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt8T_iQ-mOYI'm a Spanish speaker and have had a lot of interaction with Portuguese speakers, but really don't know much about the language. For the most part, in my experience, if I speak reasonably paced Spanish to Portuguese speakers, they ( Read more... )

spanish, portuguese

Spanish <==> English community in the offing

callunav wrote in linguaphiles Aug 28, 2015 02:16

Okay. So, there's been some interest, and hopefully once things are going, there will be a little more, and if it stays moderately small that will be fine ( Read more... )

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