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Orange
PostPosted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:31 pm 
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Here are some websites that I came across that will help you learn Soanish correctly. They help you with a lot of things but mostly verb conjugation, which is one of the things that I have the most trouble with:

http://www.alicante-spain.com/spain-tip ... -verb.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/ ... ables.html
http://www.spaleon.com/pret.php
http://www.verbix.com/languages/spanish.shtml
http://www.elemadrid.com/spanish_verbs.htm
http://spanish.about.com/cs/verbs/a/conjug_index.htm
http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/regverb2.htm
http://www.rcaguilar.com/spanish/verbs/ ... ion-02.htm

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:14 pm 
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Orange. Great post.
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Thanks, Orange! One of those thousand things I mean to get around to between trips -- you made it much more reachable for me.
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Orange,

A very useful post, thank you!

For learning some basic Costa Rican idiomatic vocabulary, I also recommend

http://www.paulglassman.com/cr4.htm

This list includes words/phrases unique to Costa Rica, including a list of food and beverage items, so you don't accidentally eat the pig intestines when you thought you were getting seviche...
:mrgreen:

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Slag me if I'm wrong, but this thread has continuing value. Note: I didn't try to click thru to any of them. "Orange" always posts "news you can use".

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I got some .mp3 spanish lessons on the site below a month ago. Today went there and could not find them, but perhaps with a little digging you may get them. Don't want to be too specific for the obvious reasons.



http://www.whorticulture.info

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Orange" always posts "news you can use".


AGREED.... :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

This is good sh*t...thanks

I start Spanish II in Summer II... I also attend Hispanics In Action classes for FREE..a twenty spot for the book... Good stuff..

http://www.hispanicsinaction.org/

For all in SouthFlorida...

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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 9:30 pm 
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Hermanos,

Do you guys with pretty good Spanish skills usually address the Chicas with tu or usted?

It is my understanding that, unlike much of the Latin world, there is a greater formality in CR, with most people finding tu a little too pushy from strangers.


Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Always trying to be polite (and occasionally failing)!!

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El Ciego
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Cdrtom wrote:
Hermanos,

Do you guys with pretty good Spanish skills usually address the Chicas with tu or usted?

It is my understanding that, unlike much of the Latin world, there is a greater formality in CR, with most people finding tu a little too pushy from strangers.

On the other hand, usted seems to me to be a little formal, given the relationship of CRTers to chicas.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

Always trying to be polite (and occasionally failing)!!

CdrTom


C.R. Spanish speakers use the usted for everyone. Ch*ldr*n, pets, judges.

In the HDR and other venues however, there are girls from other L.Am. countries who use the "tu" form. I do this: ?De donde es Ud.?" If she says anywhere outside of C.R., I use the "tu" form.

It has nothing to do with the social context of prostitution. IMHO.

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