Comments | nebulia: knowing spanish, or the lack thereof

nebulia

knowing spanish, or the lack thereof

Nov 03, 2008 12:03

Sometimes taking three years of Latin really helps me ( Read more... )

classes, nanowrimo, spanish

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andreaphobia November 3 2008, 18:42:40 UTC

Yes! Be awesome for the both of us! <3

hyper_airis November 3 2008, 18:51:29 UTC

Guh! Learning languages is really difficult. I tried learning German for my language curriculum but hahaha. :/

Goodluck (with writing and Spanish XD)!! o/

eoedad November 7 2008, 02:13:51 UTC

Ha ha ha. Okay, indirect pronouns are just something that you'll get used to after a while, but the imperfect tense... bwahaha. Evilness incarnate. Basically, I believe that it's an action that occurred in the past that has no defined beginning or end. (See, I like the imperfect tense because it has all of about three irregulars and therefore makes my life easier. I dislike the imperfect because WHY THE HELL DO WE NEED TWO PAST TENSES???) I also hate it because my friend, who was born in Chile and still speaks mainly Spanish at home, says that she didn't know the imperfect tense even existed before she started taking "American" Spanish in school. In other words, in at least one country it will just make you sound like you have no idea how to conjugate verbs. >.<

I'm not telling you my word count because it makes me cry. Suffice it to say that I am not not not meeting the challenge. Also, FUCK PROP 8.

nebulia November 7 2008, 02:17:42 UTC

Haha, now that I'm learning them, here in Costa Rica I'm definitely hearing imperfects floating around. But then, MBF is from Chile, so maybe I'll just never go to another Latin American country again.

Haha, in Latin there are three pasts: imperfect (I was walking to school), perfect (I walked to school) and pluperfect (I had walked to school). But they're so definite. In Spanish it's like, use the imperfect for habitual stuff in the past, and description in the past, and indefinite stuff in the past, and I'm like...fuck that.

I learned por and para today too, so God help me.

eoedad November 7 2008, 03:28:59 UTC

Por and para.

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It was nice knowing you.

nebulia November 7 2008, 03:30:10 UTC

Well, now gee, that sure is reassuring. Thanks so much. XD

Also, I forgot to mention last comment: I fuck prop 8 as well. It is well-fucked. And not in a good way either. DDD<<<

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