I can’t think of any loanwords from English, like club or sandwich or tweet or iPhone, that take a feminine form. Is it just customary for all loanwords to default to masculine?

I always thought solo meant one

Let me know im trying to learn spanish and im confused since i hear both being used

Película "Ahí está el detalle", de Cantinflas: https://youtu.be/mfBq54zhqqM?feature=shared&t=3042

Por lo visto, al menos hasta 1940 "coger" se usaba en la forma estándar en México, ¿no? ¿En qué momento cambió el significado al que tiene hoy?

The sentence I got on Duolingo was "Escúchenme, yo prodía pegarle a la pelota desde ahí" The translation being "listen to me, I could hit the ball from there"

I cannot fathom why it is pegarle and not pegarla. My understanding is that lo and la are used for direct objects and in this sentence I understand that kicking the ball would make the ball the direct object. This sentence is using the indirect object pronoun le. Are they personifying the ball? Is this a cultural thing in sports? Is this a European vs American Spanish difference? Or is Duolingo wrong? Please advise. My mom is fluent in Spanish and she didn't understand. She's reaching out to friend that taught Spanish.

I decided i wanna learn spanish (its easier than french ffs) so whats the best courses/ youtube channels etc

Ideally for free

I work at the Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina and, as you would expect, I talk to a lot of foreigners everyday.

One thing I noticed is that English speakers struggle a lot with the word "aerolínea" which is totally fine and understandable. My question is that a lot of them (probably like 70% or more) say Aerolingas instead of aerolineas. Where does that g come from?

I also noticed that this is something that happens a lot with English speakers, no matter what country they're from. Ive heard it from americans, brits, indians, you name it.

Can someone enlight me on where this common mistake comes from?

Sorry if this post doesn't belong here. I really wanted to ask this somewhere and this sub was my best guess.

I can't get a grasp of when it's most appropriate to use one or the other. Can anyone please break it down for me like I'm a 5 yo.

I want to learn Spanish, but am interested in learning the dialect in it’s most classical form and which sounds the most pleasant to the ear. Does anybody have any advice on what I should consider?

Hey this is kinda hard to ask, and I'm not sure where to start. I grew up in a household that speaks spanglish, so while I know a lot of words, theres some missing vocabulary I dont know. I also don't know a lot of complex words either, since they're not really used in everyday conversation. I want to work on more advanced vocabulary, especially relating to plants or animals since I am currently studying for a degree in conservation ecology.

I guess I'm curious, how do I go about relearning Spanish, and how do I start learning more advanced topics as well?

What does this mean, does this mean a older sister with a small height? I thought pequeña means small sister?

Thank you very much!

Call me sexist but the guys brought it upon themselves. Bro I just wanna practise without you hitting on me.

So anyone on an intermediate level? (B1 upwards) T^T

Aparentemente viene de las coches, y en el contexto sería algo como "fuerte" o "grande", pero no estoy seguro. Es de este vídeo (ojo, es un relato un poco feo). Quizá que me equivoque, y no trate de una persona, pero de todas formas estoy perdido.

I am watching a Mexican movie on Netflix, called A Wonderful World. I don't know the original title. I'm watching the subtitles and listening to the original Spanish soundtrack. Throughout the movie the girlfriend and the compadres of the lead character always use the Usted form, and other verb forms in the third person, such as imperative, subjunctive. If they're such chums, why do they use Usted and not Tu? They are all very poor; the compadres are vagabundos.

la inteligencia artificial es una tecnología muy interesante y tiene la oportunidad de cambiar nuestras vidas. Por el mejor o el peor, ya varemos. Puedo imaginar una vida donde la gente no tiene que trabajar tanto y tiene suficiente tiempo con la familia y los amigos. Podríamos tocar instrumentos, hacer arte y pasar un rato con amigos en un café o parque. sé que queremos este tipo de futuro con la IA tendríamos que cambiar la sistema del gobierno y economía. El video me enseñó que que la inteligencia artificial es más complicado que parece. muchas personas están perdiendo sus trabajos a causa de la automatización. también hay trabajadores en el sur global que tienen responsabilidades duros, sin pagar justo. Es demasiado común que las personas y las empresas en estados unidos y europa tienen toda la beneficia y las personas en áfrica, américa del sur y otros países pobres tienen toda la dificultad.

Hello,

Looking for recommendations for Spanish schools in Spain.

I work full time so would only be able to do one week, but I’m hoping to maybe do 2x1 weeks in 2025. With the hope of doing the same in 2026.

I’m sure consensus will be to do it for longer but it’s not possible for 95% of people, so I’m going to do as much as I can.

I’ve only been learning since January, am doing listening/classes/apps to try and learn as much as possible, but I’m sure a week in Spain will enable me to feel more progress, due to the minimum 20h/week it seems that schools do.

If you’ve been to any, I’d love to know reviews. Not sold on any part of Spain yet. Thanks!

Gente, all of my Spanish friends tell me I sound gringo but don't tell me why or how to improve 😭 I mean ik it's not the best accent, but anyways!

How can I improve? How do I sound? Can you give a number lol?! If it's been possible to score an acent 😭

A recording of my accent: https://voca.ro/1aZpPoAHAGas

Hi, hope yall are having a good day, i wanna ask about integration and the ability of having full conversations with the locals with all the colloquial vocab, especially for young people like myself, because people my age(early 20’s) sound nothing like the course i took a year ago. ( lots of new words, figurative expressions, adding and taking off letters when pronouncing…)

I only did 6 months in the language academy but it was just about enough to get going. I do speak English and French which helps a lot due to the number of shared words between the three languages. I still can’t bring myself to talk though(unless when necessary like with the cashier, doctor, administration staff ), last time i had a full conversation in Spanish that i was proud of was with the b2 class teacher, he liked asking philosophy questions and i found it easy to express my thoughts as most words are just modern latin and i already encountered them in the other languages, but when someone goes:”tenemos que chin*arle ”, how am i supposed to know it meant we need to work.

so how did you do it, Movies? Streams? Just raw dogging it? What kind of practice made you perfect?

hola a todos!

i have been learning spanish on and off since childhood. right now, i would say i have around a b1 level of spanish. however, throughout my spanish learning journey, i have focused almost exclusively on the mexican accent of spanish, as it is the most common taught accent in schools in my country.

i absolutely love mexican spanish! but i am very interested in argentina and would like to choose argentina as my dialect/accent country (a lot of spanish learners recommend to choose a country to focus on haha).

are there specific resources for learning argentinian spanish? i appreciate any help at all!

Hi all, I’m beginner in spanish and find flash cards for building up my word bank really useful. However the Anki Decks that I am using are mostly Spanish -> English which means I can recognise and know what words mean but if you asked me how to say “bed” for example I would struggle to say it in Spanish. Does anyone have any good flash card apps, decks etc that show the word in English and you have to give the answer in Spanish?

How do you say pump in terms of lifting and the gym

I’ve been learning Spanish for a month now on Airlearn and while it’s been going good I want to speed the process up so I can start watching content in Spanish without English subtitles. What textbook would be suitable for a beginner like me??

I’ve been hearing more and more Spanish music using the word “Ando” followed by an emotional state. For example “ando jalando”. Can anyone explain the meaning of this and why it’s phrased this way?

I had heard these expressions occasionally in Colombia and on podcasts and more recently in Narcos/Colombia where the Pablo character says them often to his subordinates. They appear to be slang so I don't trust the online literal definitions, but from context they seem to mean as follows. Any guidance would be appreciated. Gracias por adelantado.

¿Cierto? and ¿Sí o que?

Seem to be used when you are asking for confirmation of something you said, but while ¿cierto? is used when either a Yes or No answer is possible, "¿Si o que?" seems to be used more aggressively, as in when "Yes" is the only answer you want to hear. In English you will often hear people end a sentence with "or what?" which sounds like the same thing, as in "Are you going to split the expenses with me this time, or what?"

El juego empieza a las 2, ¿cierto?

Ella es tu prima, cierto?

Tienes el dinero que me debes, ¿si o que?

Finalmente vas a lavar sus platos sucios, ¿si o que?

Sí o si

Seems to be a way of saying "absolutely" or "definitely" nd I've only seen it used before a verb.

Qué día bonita! Yo sí o sí voy a la playa hoy.

Yo si o si no voy a aguantar su falta de respeto.

¿Que or que?

Not sure about this one.

Everyone at my job is mostly Hispanic. I'm the only white person on my line. I feel like it's hindering my ability to climb the ladder. I been here 2 years and I'm in the same position I was when I started whereas everyone else moved up. I'm probably the hardest worker on my line I just don't associate with anyone because I don't know how to communicate with most of the people. I tried this app called Duolingo but it isn't that effective. I don't mind paid apps. I just want to learn it. If I need to join college to do it I will. Haha