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Expressions in Spanish
Hi everyone!
I have been looking for how can I say some typical Spanish expressions in English, and I have discovered many expressions have not translation, but are very useful, and others are funny. I will put some of them here:
Botellón - It doesn't traslation
In Spain this word means when people, typically young, meet in public space, like a park, or in a house to drink alcohol and have a good time.
Hablando del rey de Roma - Speaking of the devil
I don't know if latin people use this expression, but here is used when you are speaking about someone and that person show up.I find funny to translate "rey de Roma" for "devil".
Salir rana - To backfire
To say to backfire is not "Salir rana", I have been looking for and this is the most seems I have found, but its real means "salir el tiro por la culata", other expression in Spanish.
La de la verguenza - It doesn't translation
Its means is the last piece of food left on a shared plate, is very used when we meet with our friends or family to choose who eats it. Sometimes that piece nobody eats it for shame.
Do you know others expression like this?
Thank you so much for your correction!
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Problems to express "que" in English
Hi!
I have many problems to translate "que" in English. For example, "Tengo que irme" is "I have to go" or "Espero que me digas algo", that "que" disappear when you translate: "I hope you say something". But, how can I translate "Anoche soñé algo que ahora mismo no recuerdo"? How can I know when put "that", "to" or directly omit it?
Thank you!
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The trouble to write without library
This year is my last like student, in Spain that mean you must do a report to prove all your knowledge in many pages about optional theme. I am a person with one limit of time very limited, so that in my house I have not the level of concentrate I need to finish tasks. Each time I want to study, to write or simply to do a search, I go to the near library. I need to feel the pressure of the other people to be concentrate.
Now, because of the coronavirus all libraries are closed, and I have to do everything in my room. I take more than one hour to do things when before I took less than fifteen minutes. It is a nonsense.
In twenty days I have to send one half of my report to my teacher, but I only have ten pages. I miss to go to the library.
Do you have the same trouble? What do you do for focus in your tasks?
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Learn english like a need
I am english student. I try all my life to learn english, above all I try to speak in english, because I go into shock. I mean, I can read a report about programming, but I can't keep a normal conversation about weather with one person. I have to take practise, and this web is a opportunity to do it with other people that they study a language too.
This is a big problem in the working world, all site ask for your level english, and if you haven't got high level, you would be discarded although you would be the best professional in your filed. For this reason, my goal for the next two months is to practise everyday.
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