A Spanish a Day

Ever wanted to learn Spanish? I received a one-a-day learn Spanish calendar for Christmas and I will share the excitement and drama of each new day with you, my fellow EoFF'ers.

Looks like we have some catching up to do as well since it's already the 6th.


Jueves, Enero 1 / (Thursday, January 1)
el año (AH-nyoh) - year
¡Un año más! - Another year!


Viernes, Enero 2 / (Friday, January 2)
la fiesta (FYEHS-tah) - party
Fue una fiesta muy buena. - It was a very good party.


Sábado, Enero 3 / (Saturday, January 3) & Domingo, Enero 4 / (Sunday, January 4)
descansar (dehs-kahn-SAHR) - to rest
El fin de semana es para descansar. - The weekend is for resting.


Lunes, Enero 5 / (Monday, January 5)
trabajar (trah-bah-HAHR) - to work
Pero hoy tenemos que trabajar. - But today we have to work.


Martes, Enero 6 / (Tuesday, January 5)
la oficina (oh-fee-SEE-nah) - office
Trabajo en una oficina nueva. - I work in a new office.

:Eek:

I took Español in high-school. I can remember a little bit, but that class kinda sucked. I took it for four years, and it seemed like years II-VI were just repeats of Español I... :(

Lazy teacher + lazy kids = Bored Yar.

I've taken five classes in spanish. I know enough to get by. I rather not speak it though, I know I sound like an idiot when I do. Luckly living in Southern California I can practice with speakers more. Also, my grandpa and aunt are fluent. :D

I used to learn it at school. I'm probably a bit sketchy with my pronunciation though. ¡Ah bien!

A short introduction to spanish verbs(mostly to see if I still remember all this stuff):

most spanish verbs will end in -AR (or ER or OR or something)
to use these verbs, just learn these simple endings!

Yo (I) "o"
Tu (you) "as"
El, Ella, Usted (he, she, Thou) "a"
Nosotros (we) "amos"
Vosotros (Thou plural) idk because my teacher swore you only use this in spain, and never taught us.
Ellos, Ellas (they) "an"

With the verb "trabajar",
trabajo - I work
trabajas - You work
trabaja - He works
trabajamos - We work
trabajan - They work

when speaking spanish, using a subject pronoun (yo, tu, etc) is more or less completely optional.

My grilfriend likes to repeat random Spanish phrases. It's cute.

I think I know enough Spanish to get by as a tourist in a Spanish speaking country. I knew all the words from Mullet's calendar except descansar, but I would just use dormir!

I did a little spanish and forgot it all :0

I've taken five years of Spanish and can speak it fairly competently.

Ten cuidad. La letra ñ es muy importante. Sin la ~, es la palabra ano. En ingles, ano es "ass"

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año. You need the tilde over the n, otherwise you get ano = ass.

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Well maybe it is a new ano?

I thought it was asno. Meh. I know that in French ass is âne, and the circumflex means there's an S after the vowel. So it's asne, which is just like asno and French and Spanish are related. >.>

Okay, I'm done being nerdy.

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Originally Posted by Del Murder

I think I know enough Spanish to get by as a tourist in a Spanish speaking country. I knew all the words from Mullet's calendar except descansar, but I would just use dormir!

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I took spanish as my foreign language. I finished in the tenth grade so I forgot pretty much everything except a few words xD

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Originally Posted by Yaridovich

I thought it was asno. Meh. I know that in French ass is âne, and the circumflex means there's an S after the vowel. So it's asne, which is just like asno and French and Spanish are related. >.>

Okay, I'm done being nerdy.

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I think you just dreamed that rule up. I've never heard of it.

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Originally Posted by rubah

A short introduction to spanish verbs(mostly to see if I still remember all this stuff):

most spanish verbs will end in -AR (or ER or OR or something)
to use these verbs, just learn these simple endings!

Yo (I) "o"
Tu (you) "as"
El, Ella, Usted (he, she, Thou) "a"
Nosotros (we) "amos"
Vosotros (Thou plural) idk because my teacher swore you only use this in spain, and never taught us.
Ellos, Ellas (they) "an"

With the verb "trabajar",
trabajo - I work
trabajas - You work
trabaja - He works
trabajamos - We work
trabajan - They work

when speaking spanish, using a subject pronoun (yo, tu, etc) is more or less completely optional.

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That is only for AR verbs.
ER is
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es
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emos
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IR
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imos
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