ALGUIEN HABLA ESPANOL? - Page 2

That being said, estar also used for location of buildings etc - which you’d think is permanent buuuuut ....

La iglesia está en la Plaza Mayor - The Church is in the main square

It’s also used to express death - which again you’d think permanent ....

Él está muerto - he is dead.

Buena suerte (no bueno - suerte is feminine)

The dead ’estar’ always makes me giggle - maybe because catholic’s go to heaven so it’s not dead dead?! I think you would be an excellent maestro for a daily nugget of Spanish on this forum? Buenas suertes- can you wish many female good lucks or is it always singular buena suerte (I have learnt luck is feminine today - apreciado mucho 🙏

De nada.  Spanish is a beautifully rich language, having borrowed less into it than English, Spanish from centuries ago ( i.e. El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha) whilst difficult, is still readable - much more so than Shakespeare’s plays in the original language. (Apropos of that, Spanish has borrowed into it many Mozarabic words from its time of occupation by the Moors; anything beginning “Al” is quite likely Mozarabic in origin)

I’m not qualified at all to offer a daily nugget - I’m far from fluent, but I love the language and it’s grammar and am exploring new words and phrases each day .... colloquialisms as well as standard Spanish.

My aim is one day in the future to lose whatever accent I have ... and to be mistaken for a native speaker.  Not sure I will ever achieve that, but it is that for which I strive and will doubtless continue learning this language through the rest of my days

I got to this one via total good fortune and utter ignorance.

I've been proudly announcing to the world, "aprendo espanol." And I even know that the pronoun "I" is not required.

However, I never had a friggin  clue about the other conjugation you mentioned. 😂😂😂

No doubt that comes later en el curso de espanol.

You may think you have a problem, but I'm trying to learn the language, both in terms of saying what I mean to and in something near to the correct pronunciation, accent and grammar. All this while having spent my entire 60+ years in East London and Essex.

Entonces, dime profesor, ¿cómo suena el español, hablado en cockney? Tengo un problema? 😅

It comes when you start learning the present continuous :-D

On  a serious note, again I'm blown away at all you good people taking time to help.

My heartfelt thanks to you all.

Posiblemente tienes un problema pequeño, porque el español no tiene el argot de rima 🤣

That's it then. I'm giving up. 😁😁😁

A couple of excellent resources I have come across and use:

For smartphone - DuoLingo - YES, I know, it’s South American Spanish, but it IS free and the repetition of simple sentences it uses does help cement the grammar.

Wlingua - much better, uses Castellan Spanish (mainland Spain); has a free version and again, very good learning app.

SpanishDict - absolutely superb free app, a complete Spanish - English Dictionary, but with examples and ALL the conjugations for a verb including Present Continuous, Subjunctive, Imperative, past perfect subjunctive .... yeah, you get the picture.

Online, I also use https://www.thoughtco.com/spanish-4133085 which is a fabulous free resource