Veo que todavi'a tengo mucho por aprender pero tambie'n personas amables para ayudarme.

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Me llamo Belinda y soy de los EEUU. He visitado a Costa Rica algunos años pasados, entonces tengo intere's en la lengua. En la escuela he apredido cinco an~os del español, pero ahora no tengo las clases; entonces necesito practicar aqui'. Y por favor corrijame si cometo un error. !Gracias!

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He visitado Costa Rica     sobra la a

en vez de algunos años pasados   hace algunos años

interes sin el apóstrofe ´

en vez de En la escuela he apredido cinco an~os del español En la escuela aprendí cinco años Español  

en vez de corrijame corrijanme       corrijame seria si se dirigiera a una persona concreta, pero como se dirige a cualquiera que lea esto corrijanme

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Me llamo Belinda y soy de los EEUU. He visitado a Costa Rica algunos años pasados, entonces tengo intere's en la lengua. En la escuela he apredido cinco an~os del español, pero ahora no tengo las clases; entonces necesito practicar aqui'. Y por favor corrijame si cometo un error. !Gracias!

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hola me llamo Greg por muchos anos soy aprender espanol y hablo pero solo un poco quiero un amigo hablando espanol por favour well im sure that was complete rubbish, please feel free to put me right and write! ho ho From deepest darkest west England

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Hola!

I am a complete beginner in spanish but i am very enthusiastic and love spain after visiting Alicante,Torrevieja,Murcia,Loret del Mar a couple of years ago.

I wondered if anyone here is using any online courses to help them learn Spanish? If so could you point me in the right direction please?

Gracias

Iain..

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...remains without a computer at home.

She is a teacher so has had the summer off and computer problems before that. I will suggest to her that maybe she needs to consider a co-host until she is up and running with her group again.

Thanks for your patience!!!

Karen

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Me llamo Cherie. I just found this group and hope I can find some help here as I learn Spanish. I am just starting, so I am still learning the very basics. I will probably be slow as I have a bad memory due to an injury. But I still want to learn.

Smiles

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Me llamo Naomi, y tengo quarenta y trés años.  Vivo en Los Angeles, California con mi gato. 

I joined this group hoping to relearn what I've forgotten since college.  It's been quite awhile, and while I can usually fumble my way through some written Spanish, my speaking and understanding are basic again.  I've been looking for people to study with, and I'm so happy to have found you all!  ¡Ayudame por favor! 

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Hope you find amigos in this groupo that help you begin to learn Spanish!

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   me sorprenden!!!!!!!

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For those of us who are not quite fluent in Spanish, here are some of the differences between "por y para" in English:

Por is the basic Spanish unit of many of the expressions we use in every day speech, like por supuesto - of course; por eso - that's why; por favor - the Spanish equivalent of "please."  

Por also is a preposition for time. Por ejemplo (for example): Estudio por dos horas. It can indicate how long you've been doing something, or how long you'll be somewhere: "Voy a ir a Honduras por tres semanas."

It can also be used like the English word "during" or "in" to describe something you do on a regular basis: Cuándo tocas la guitarra? Toco la guitarra por la tarde. "I play guitar in the afternoons."  

These are just the beginning meanings of "por." I'm sure there are many more, since it's a palabra used in lots of different expressions. 

Even more common, it seems, is the word "para," which is often used like the preposition "for" in English. While "por" uses "for" in describing lengths of time, we use "para" when we describe something we need for a specific purpose. Like this: Necesito ese libro para mi clase. --> "I need that book for my class." Another example could be a pregunta: "Para quién estás comprando esta regalo?" --> "For whom are you buying this gift?"

"Para" is also for abstract nouns, like asking someone what they do for fun: Qué haces para la diversión? It's been my experience that you use "para" to mean "for" a lot more often than "por."        

Para sometimes proceeds verbs, even: Voy a La Carreta's para almorzar. "I go to La Carreta's to have lunch." I am not exactly sure about the rule for "para" + the infinitive and when we should use that, though. Maybe someone else can help? :0)

Hope that helped!

Charisse

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Soy Karen, soy de Reino Unido pero yo he vivido en Mexico por un año y medio. Necesito ayuda con los verbos... son muy difìcil!! Tambien, què es la diferencia entre 'para' y 'por'?????? Por favor, ayudame!!

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Gracias Jerry para invitation. Yo hablo pocito espanol lol and spell even less. I hope to learn from our group. Me esposo is hispanic and in 18 years still hasnt taught me lol he speaks ok but not as good as he should. I wanna help teach my boys spanish, they should be able to speak it and only know a few words.

I'm glad to be here.

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¡Hola!  Hi!  Me llamo Karen y soy profesora de Español aquí en los EEUU. (That's the abbreviation for the U.S.A. {Estados Unidos} that's typically used in Spain.)  Soy nativa del Inglés pero después de haber vivido (after having lived) tres meses en el Ecuador, seis años en Barcelona, España, siete años en las afueras de Puerto Vallarta, México y de haber trabajado de intérprete en varias ocasiones en El Salvador, C.A., I've become fairly proficient with my Español.  I've been clicking to donate on Care 2 ever since I returned to los Estados Unidos from México back in 2000, pero nunca había visitado ningún grupo hasta el día de hoy.  I'm so oblivious I didn't even saber that these grupos existed! 

Soy madre de dos hijos, Marco y Nico.  Marco habla perfectamente el Español, pero a Nico le cuesta (it's hard for him.)  He tenía apenas cinco años when we regresamos de México and he worked so hard to aprender Inglés so that he could enter kindergarten here that he forgot how to hablar el Español.  At home we mostly hablar el Inglés as my compañero no sabe nada del Español, and I would love to practicar aquí con Ustedes (or vosotros as mis amigos Españoles would say!) to keep myself from getting rusty.

I hope to get to know you all better with time.  Espero llegar a conocerlos mejor con tiempo.  ¡Hasta pronto!  Karen

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its so nice to know many of you are interested to learn my wonderful spanish language, i am Mexican and then ofcourse i am a native spanish speaker, i am open and would love to help any of you to improve your spanish, i also need help with english, i try to speak it the best i can but still get stuck with some words....lol...

something interesting about spanish language is that since its derived from Latin language it makes spanish a romantic language, spanish has more depth in its words than english, absolutely i love spanish

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Hola! Soy una chica española. Me invitaron a entrar a este grupo hace un tiempo y, bueno, si necesitáis mi ayuda o queréis hablar conmigo para practicar español...no tengo ningún problema (lo llevo muy bien jejeje ). ¡Encantada de ayudaros!

Hablo otros idiomas como el inglés o el italiano, y sé un poquito de francés y de alemán. ¡¡Hasta luego!!  Isa.

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Soy estadounidense residente hace 19 años en América Central. Ahora soy pensionado, era guia turistico con bases en El Salvador y Guatemala. Me alojo 3 grupos sobre care2.com, son:

http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/volunteernicaragua

http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/insidecentralamerica

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http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/latinamericaforeveryone

Bienvenidos, escibrénos en español o en inglés casí igual.

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Me llama Karen.  Estoy aprendemos Espanol ahora. Muchas grácias para que empiezando esto grupo.   I've been looking for a site like this where I can get up my courage and try.  I hope to be able to write and learn from others.  Please, when I try to write in Spanish, do gently correct me when I make mistakes and explain to me what I did wrong so I can learn and gain confidence.  I've been studying Spanish for 2 years, but consider myself much the beginner.

Gracias,

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Simón, !!! de nada !!!  

Christina. Mis mejores deseos. !Mejórate pronto!.

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Gracias sonia! entonces, mi tesis se acaba de terminar! solamente falta imprimir...

hasta luegito, Simon :o)

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A Paola Barriga por su gran amistad, tu casa abierta y la cuidad de tu familia.??? Eres una inspiración ???

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Simon wrote:

... mi amiga Paola tiene "an open house", and that her family cared for me... how would i say that?

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Hola Simon ¿Qué tal?. !!Gracias por tu mensaje!!.

A literally translation of "open house" in Spanish is "casa abierta", but it doesn't make sense in Spanish. I think you will have to help me a little bit more...

If you stayed (sojourn) there, you will say: A Paola Barriga por su gran amistad, por el alojamiento y la atención de su familia.

If you didn't stay there, just visiting (a day) you will say: A Paola Barriga por su gran amistad, por la jornada de puertas abiertas y la atención de su familia.

Simon, I'm posting synonyms of atención for it sentence, so , you can choose the one you really like better. All of them sound good.  

(la) Atención: (la) cortesía, (la) amabilidad, (la) consideración.

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Thank you so much for la estrella verde!!   Simón, eres un sol. (it is what we say to a person when we feel thankful, grateful)

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Hola Simon (or Simón). Your "Español" is pretty good. I wish to write in English as you do in Spanish. Your Spanish is very good! I'm going to help you in the corrections.

CORRECTIONS:

Hola, soy simon... no he escrito nada aqui todovia, por que estoy trabajando como un loco para acabar mi tesis antes el fin de septiembre.. pero, tengo una pregunta.. es posible que algien corregir el texto seguiente, que quiesiera poner en mi tesis...?

mil gracias y despues de terminar, voy a contribir mas a SSL...

Simon :o)

The staff of (Al personal de) Estación Científica Yasuní, Carlos Flores, Alberto, Luis, Enrique y Mentor. A los cocineros José, Luis y Victor. No hay palabras para expresar mi agradacimiento por los pancitos y canguil.

     A mis amigos ecuatorianos,  muchísimas gracias por todo. A Paola Barriga por su gran amistad, tu casa abierta y la cuidad de tu familia.??? Eres una inspiración ??? A Milton Zambrano, mi jefe de Yasuní, gracias por su comprensión y amistad. A Pablo Alvia, “Hallo!” A Daisy Carate, muchas gracias por mostrarme los teatros de Quito. A Anelio Loor, ¡qué viva la salsa!. A los muchachos y a los albañiles, algún día el pueblitoYasuní estará terminado!  

     Leonel y Mariana (!mis mexicanos!) muchas gracias por su amistad, por la comida mexicana, !y una navidad inglesa!.

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Please, if you guys can help me also correcting me my English, I'd appreciate it!!!!

Sonia.

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Actually I am learning Spanish and most likely know too much slang.

Sorry for the mis-understanding but thanks for writing.

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Hola, soy simon... no he escrito nada aqui todovia, por que estoy trabajando como un loco para acabar mi tesis antes el fin de septiembre.. pero, tengo una pregunta.. es posible que algien corregir el texto seguiente, que quiesiera poner en mi tesis...?

mil gracias y despues de terminar, voy a contribir mas a SSL...

Simon :o)

The staff of Estación Cientifica Yasuní, Carlos Flores, Alberto, Luis, Enrique and Mentor, y los cocineros Jose, Luis y Victor, no hay palabras para decir mis agradacimientos para los pancitos y cangil!

A mis amigos ecuatorianos, muchisimas gracias por todo. A Paola Barriga para su gran amistad, tu casa abierta y la cuidad de tu familia. Eres una inspiración. A Milton Zambrano, mi jefe de Yasuní, gracias para su conocimiento y amistad. A Pablo Alvia, “Hallo!” A Daisy Carate, muchas gracias para mostrandome los teatros de Quito. A Anelio Loor, ¡que vive la salsa! A los muchachos y los alvañiles, algun día el pueblito Yasuní terminará!

Leonel and Mariana (mis mexicanos!) muchas gracias para su amistad, comida mexicana, y una navidad inglesa!

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Glad to have you aboard!!

You just may learn a lot of english slang here! Heck, sometimes I think all English is slang.

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Gracias for the invite although I live and work in Spain my grammer and spelling are atrocious!!!!!! Most of my Spanish is spoken So glad to join and glad to learn otra vez gracias

Besos

Sharon

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Karen N. escribió:

Welcome!

I'm SO glad you make it here. 

Someone showed me an easy way to write the accented letters.  Hold down the 'alt' key, then type the 3-digit code (see below) while holding it down, then release the 'alt' key, and the symbol will appear, like magic!

• á = 160

• é = 130

• í  = 161

• ó = 162

• ú = 163

• ñ = 164

• ¿ = 168

• ¡  = 173

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I also want to add    DIÉRESIS      ü = 129  (examples: cigüeña, pingüino)

(También quiero añadir)

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Capital Ñ                                         Ñ=165

(Ñ Mayúscula)

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I just want to make something clear about "acento" and  "tilde". First of all, don't be very worried about this. It's even confusing for some Spanish speakers.

All Spanish words have "acento" but not "tilde".

Acento: It is where the strength of the word is.   Examples: Cama  ; teclado ;  brazo. 

Tilde: It is an acute accent (an oblique little line (')-like an apostrophe-)  on the top of a vowel. Examples: Cámara ;  pantalón  ;  lámpara ;  sofá.

á - é - í - ó - ú

The letter ñ has a wavy tilde over the n to be distinguished to the letter n. It indicates also the sound "ny" (or gn). 

 So, acento and tilde are not exactly synonyms.

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Estoy nuevo en este grupo. (I hope I said that right).

I can read Spanish, and when listening to songs catch most of the words. I spent a wonderful week in Spain in 1990 and cannot wait to go back. I visit Mexico quite often.

Vivo en Allen, Tejas. Norte de Dallas y, por supuesto, Austin. 

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Bienvenidos! Es la verdad que si no lo usas, lo pierdas! Pero, con ganas puedes reclamarlo! Mucho gusto en conocerte!

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Ya tengo 2 an~os que no hablo espanol! Antes hablaba espanol todos los dias. Necesito practicar ma's porque ya se me olvido' mucho. Tengo 25 an~os y soy casada y tengo 3 hijos. Yo pase' por una experiencia bien fea y tire' mi idioma pa' la basura porque me acuerda de ese tiempo en mi vida. Ahora, veo que yo necesito ensen~arles a mis hijos espanol y olvidar el pasado.

Espero que este' bien si yo escribo aqui de vez en cuando para practicar. Si', he hablado espanol toda mi vida, pero eso no quiere decir que no me equivoco a veces. Esta computadora no recibe los co'digos para los acentos, la'stima.

Ay! No me di cuento cuanto se me olvido' hasta que escribi' esto. Tengo que luchar para recordar. Mi esposo quiere que yo le ensen~e espanol, pero co'mo cuando ya se me olvida todo?

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  I wrote it down and will check it out.

Sun Shiney Smiles!

Karen

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Si, la pelicula 'Diarios de Motocicleta' es buena! The film is based on the true story of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, who traveled across South America with his friend Alberto Granado. The trip deeply influenced them. The movie is in Spanish with English subtitles. I highly recommend it, and it's a great way to practice Spanish!

Ciao!

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I have not seen the movie. Since you mention it, I suppose it to be good.

Blessings!

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Hola!

Thank you for starting this group for learning/practicing the Spanish language. Hablo un poquito, pero quiero aprender mas. My goals are to become fluent and travel throughout the Spanish speaking world. Has anyone seen the film The Motorcycle Diaries?

Nos vemos!

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(Did I spell that right?!) Glad to have you! Such a busy hablante de espanol! (speaker of Spanish). Sorry, I don't have energy to get those special ~ things in there...

Gracias para estar aqui con nosotros! Thanks for being here with us!

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My name is Kristy and I am sophomore in college, my goal is to be a spanish teacher--so I am majoring in Espanol!  I am in my third semester of spanish and in a few months will be doing some humane education (I am a big animal rights activist--member of PETA, ASPCA and HSU I volunteered to do the humane ed at the spanish speaking elementary schools here in Kansas City.  So, I have two spanish classes (starting aug 22) and I need as much practice as I can get!  Thanks!

Kristy

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Gracias, Christina.  I hope someone can help me re-learn what I have lost! It has been said, that if you don't use it, you lose it, and boy is it ever true in my case! I can remember a few words and phrases, but not enough to carry on a conversation--and that is a necessity here in Southern California!

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Hola! Como estas? Me llamo Rebecca. 

That's as much as I can remember from my high school Spanish class! My French isn't much better even though I had French from 8th grade throughout high school and a semester in college.  I hardly remember a word of either language.  I live in Southern CA and everything here is bilingual and I can't understand what is being said!

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Welcome!

I'm SO glad you make it here. 

Someone showed me an easy way to write the accented letters.  Hold down the 'alt' key, then type the 3-digit code (see below) while holding it down, then release the 'alt' key, and the symbol will appear, like magic!

• á = 160

• é = 130

• í  = 161

• ó = 162

• ú = 163

• ñ = 164

• ¿ = 168

• ¡  = 173

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Bienvenidos, Maria! I'm so glad you made it here! We have fun, although sometimes we get a little busy, the group is building.

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Gracias por venir! Espero que Tkay viene pronto, tambien! Todos somos amigos aqui, SO make yourselves at home!

Thanks for coming! I hope that Tkay comes soon, too! We are all friends here, por eso sean comodas como si fueron en casa!

SMILEYs para ustedes!

 (esparo que) Biene pronto tambien, come here.... fast or now?

todos somos amigas aqui...  friends... aqui.....here.... oh wait...

esparo que biene pronto tambien..... I need more help! !Es dificul!

Did you say.....Thanks for coming! I hope that Tkay comes soon, too! We are all friends here  ?

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I couldn't follow most of that but I am here...

es dificul escribe y intendes espanol. It is difficult to write and understand spanish. I can pick out some words and connect them to engish but I keep a notebook to help me remember.

!Yo ocupada con mi ninas pero, yo es bueno que ellos aprendan muchas idiomas para su futra!

I connected two sentenses I copied from last time....

I am busy with the girls but it's good they can learn many languages in the future!

I wanted to escribe, I'm busy with the girls pero, I want them to learn with me.

Gracias for esta invitation en las groupa, Christina... hola, Paola y Colleen

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Gracias por venir! Espero que Tkay viene pronto, tambien! Todos somos amigos aqui, SO make yourselves at home!

Thanks for coming! I hope that Tkay comes soon, too! We are all friends here, por eso sean comodas como si fueron en casa!

SMILEYs para ustedes!

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Gracias de juntarnos en este grupito! Espero que les gusta mucho.

~Christina

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Hola amigas. 

I just joined this group too, I think I have some other postings somewhere in here.   This group is a ton of fun. . .and I am excited to learn more.

via con dios

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Muchas grácias para que empiezando esto grupo. 

Me llamo Cathi.  Mí español es muy mala, pero espero que con practica yo puedo hablar mucho mejor.  Vivo en Florida, y visito a México uno o dos veces cada año.  También, me gusta música latina.  Esos son unas de las razónes para que deseo hablar español. 

Por favor, dime cuando mís "posts" tienen errores.  Entonces todos nuestros aprendemos más, ¿sí?

Cat

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Me llamo Viviane y vivo en Belgica.

I've learned spanish at school but since I don't have much opportunity to practice it isn't going that fluent anymore.  Hope we can help each other.

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Estamos alegres que estas aqui con nosotros!

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?Como esta ustedes? Mi nombre estoy Betsy Wilbur y yo vivo en Austin Texas. Yo visito Mexico muchas veces, pero yo ovido mucho espan~ol.

Yo quiero practicar contigos.

Dios te bendigas.

Betsy

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  Cedar & Linda! Feel free to post any line of discussion you'd like to start...and invite any interested friends--the more the merrier!

It might take some work, but we can do it, right?!

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I too need practice. I can read Spanish at a comfortable level; but the grammar and speaking is subterreanan ....

Thanks for starting this...I hope we can make regular visits and avoid embarassing ourselves w/ our linquistic goofs

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Hi,

I have been taking spanish classes my whole life but haven't had the immersion that would set my grammar straight yet.  I had an internship in Brazil and my spanish is a little worse for it (Portunol).  Anxious to make my Spanish work for me!

--Cedar

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Mucho gusto, Isabel y Alice! It's nice to meet you both! Welcome to our group, make yourselves cómodas! (that’s comfortable, feminine).

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Gracias for introducing yourself to the group, hermanita!

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Yeah hermana for starting this wonderful group! Yo soy la hermana de Christina. My Spanish level is BASIC - I studied it in High School, then studied French in college and studied abroad in France. One knows when you know one romance language, the others become much easier to learn! I am excited to learn more conversational Spanish porque I love languages and I definitely need the skills at work! Speaking of, I'm at work, so I must go ahora, but you'll be hearing more from me!

Adios amigos!

Julia

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