best news and political commentary channel in south america? (BBC, Fox news, ...) ?

I know maybe 4 words in Spanish, I sell at my local flea market in southeastern United States, I barely know my native language of English lol. But i want to learn common greetings,prices, slang, and maybe some funny sayings that a vendor might say at at a market in South America. I really appreciate all of my Hispanic customers and would like to be able to communicate more with them. What are some super basic things I could say to atleast convey something even If I can’t understand their response.

For the command phrase (write it down)

In English I would say:

You play as Mario. You jump on Goombas.

In Spanish do I also use the second person like this?

Juegas como Mario. Saltas sobre Goombas.

I figure it's probably the same but I didn't want to assume. Thanks.

A Spanish-language teacher of mine told me that in Latinoamerica, they use the present perfect much less or at least less than is common in Spain. They explained that Latinoamericans will often use the preterite (pretérito indefinido) instead. Of course they are cases when they would have to use it, but the times they are interchangable, they would opt for the simple past.

They used the example where, when they were first asked by a hispanohablante from Spain "¿Has comido?", as in asking if they had eaten that day, but they responded thinking they were asking if they had ever eated in their life.

I have never noticed this lack of usage, but all the same, I haven't really heard many Latinoamericans using the present perfect either.

Is this common for Latinoamericans? Has anyone else noticed this?

so I picked up the phrase "está dura de averdura" from a song I like. when I translated it, it came out as "he/she's tough as hell". I used it in conversation with one of my native Spanish-speaking friends (who, for context, grew up in northern Mexico) and after asking me where I got it from, said it was a good pun. can anyone explain how it's a pun and if it's implying anything I should be aware of?

I’m a native English speaker and so don’t have to make distinctions between masculine and feminine words in my first language - I’ve only encountered this language feature while I’ve been studying Spanish.

As it’s not a feature of the English language, I was wondering how it comes across to native speakers when one uses the incorrect articles (un/una/la/el). Does it just come across as being a beginner in speaking the language or do native speakers interpret it differently?

The Language Transfer app makes some really interesting points about how learning different languages forces you to ‘perceive and experience’ the world differently due to the structures/ideas/forms of different languages - I think this falls into that category?

¿Es mejor decir "a las 15" o "a las 3"?

i took spanish for four years in high school and even passed the ap test at the end of my senior year, and since then i’ve been trying to expand my vocabulary. however i still feel like i can barely speak or understand it. when i try to listen to music or podcasts in spanish, i can’t understand anything aside from a single word or phrase here and there. when i read spanish i probably only understand 10% of it. my goal is to be fluent one day but i’m starting to think it’s just never gonna happen for me. what am i doing wrong?

I hear it a lot in Luisito Comunica videos but don't know what it means

“Haberselas al fin con hombres de veras”

The Haberselas is tripping me out. I know this is correct grammar, but I don’t know if my interpretation is correct: “going to the end with real men”???

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Hello there. There's a song, called "Me gustas tú" which means "I like you". However, there are things that buffle me, especially the objective part. First, as far as I know, the objective of tú is te and me is the objective of Yo, so why are objective and subjective inverted? Wouldn't it be called "Yo gusta te" then? Also gustas is - I think - the 2nd person variation of gusta since it ends with a s. Does it mean "You like me" now? I'm not sure if you can put the objective before the subjective without making it a passive sentence in Spanish in the first place. In German for example, you can - "Ich mag dich", "Dich mag ich" - same meaning due the simple classification of objective and subjective.

Just never heard this word before-where is it native to and what does it mean?

I recently came across the term in the following article: https://www.elmundo.es/espana/2024/04/19/66217ed6e9cf4aac158b45b9.html

As far as I can tell, 'trufado' means filled with truffles? Therefore I assume the phrase is an idiom, but I cannot find a translation anywhere.

I would be greatful of any help anyone can provide as I am very curious about this phrase!

He aprendido español por tres años pero escuchado a hablantes nativos es muy difícil para mi. Saben si hay un aplicación o lugar que puedo ir a practicar? Conozco hablantes nativos pero soy demasiado nerviosa hablar porque es difícil entender ellos 😭

Hi

Apologies if this has already been asked hundreds of times but I am looking to challenge myself.

I would like some recommendations of novels that are a solid B2 level. I am pretty confident reading B1 level books and for me, I learn best when I do something slightly higher than my current level. For that I would like books that are definitely a high B2 standard, close to C1 even.

I prefer any genre of fiction or historical fiction novels. Preferably ones not too long ... maybe say max 7 hours or so to read. But I'm flexible on that!

I should also say that I'm looking for books originally written in Spanish as I have been told that transcribed novels are not the best as they don't use natural Spanish .. not sure how true that is ?

Many thanks

could anyone help me with my spanish hw pls

Hello,

I've been studying Spanish for about ten years now, but only studied it seirously for about half that time. I studied in Mexico for seven months before college and have studied abroad in Costa Rica for about six months. I watch movies, listen to podcasts, and music in Spanish, but I'm still having a hard time understanding native speakers. Some days I do fine and others its like my brain refuses to understand Spanish. Does anyone have any advice on how I can work on this?

Title.

This question is mainly for natives or very advanced Spanish speakers.

I personally sometimes have trouble understanding dubbed movies in “Spain” Spanish, which I always found jarring because… it’s Spanish.

I can understand everyone from the USA/UK/AU etc. There have been accents/dialects from the country side of the UK that I absolutely cannot understand for the life of me though, lol.

Buenas dias!! So, I've been practicing Espanol for awhile now, but I'm really having a hard time of finding people to practice with. I don't have any real friends. Not trying to sound sad or anything, but it's just been a struggle to find someone to actually practice with. I'm in a Facebook group, which doesn't do a whole lot I must admit. I've looked at the library ( volunteer work there) and haven't been really able to find any groups or things like that. I'm scraping at the barrel of the bucket for ideas. Any tips or thoughts? Much as gracias!!

¿Que es la diferencia entre ‘camina’ y ‘caminando’ ? Por ejemplo,

‘Escucho podcasts mientras camino/ caminando’

tambien, como se llama esta forma? gracias!

Hi everyone!

I was wondering if people had recommendations of where to learn for a beginner? I’ve started Duolingo unit 2 and I’ve started using Tandem to practise more, but I’m so confused on the best place or way to study. I’m trying to get to a completely functional conversation level for most basic interactions if that helps!

I have three dogs; Spider and Monkey are male, and Molly is female. I will be bringing them with me into Mexico. In English, the word "dog" has no gender, but I know that "perro" is masculine, and the feminine form "perra" is an insult that I probably don't want to use to talk about my babies. In English, I will generally say "he" and "him" for Spider and Monkey and "she" and "her" to talk about Molly. Is it normal in Spanish to use gendered terms for your pet dogs in the same way? Like in English, I might say "This is my dog Molly. She is a very good girl." How would I say that in Spanish? "Ella es mi perro Molly. Ella es una niña muy buena."? Would that sound weird?

So, I've pretty much not studied the conditional and only have a very loose interpretation of what it is, but I figured I might as well still ask this question.

So, if I wanted to say, "She might know," would I have to say it as, "Ella podría saber" or would I be able to say, "Ella sabría"? Because in my mind and in my understanding, the second option would still be correct considering "saber" in this case is being used in the conditional, and as well in context, if I'm responding to a question, I'd assume it would translate the same way. If not, what would, "Ella sabría" translate to? Google Translate (which I'll be honest I try not to use too often but I did check it this time) says its, "She would know". But considering we're in the conditional I don't think it would be concrete like that, and that you'd wanna use, "Ella va a saber" or "Ella sabrá". But again, I haven't yet started to really study the conditional so I could be extremely wrong here, I just figured I'd ask in the off chance I'm actually correct lol.

I was looking at song lyrics and the singer says "Quién será la que me quiere a mí"

Why does he need to say "a mí" at the end if he has already said "me" before the verb in "me quiere"

I thought the "a ___" was for pronouns like "le"

I'm pretty good at English, almost advanced actually, so I can understand most things I hear. I've got a two-month-old baby, and I help my wife a lot around the house—cleaning, doing dishes, taking care of the baby. With my limited time, I thought of buying Galaxy Buds2 Pro (a great earbud) to keep practicing my English listening skills while I do chores. But here's the problem: I get easily distracted, especially now with the baby crying and my wife needing help all the time. It's hard for me to stay focused, so listening to podcasts or stories can be frustrating because I tend to lose track of what's going on, leading to missed details or misunderstandings. I need something I can listen to while multitasking without feeling guilty/disappointed about missing some details. But what should I listen to?

Sometimes I listen to music that is quite fun, and I can repeat it many times and it's still good. However, music tends to be very poetic, and I don't feel like I'm really learning something from it. Nevertheless, it's good for entertainment though.

Hola, quiero volar al extranjero para mejorar mi español. Hé aprendido un acento europeo para mudarse al futuro pero es demasiado caro viajar ahí por ahora. Entonces, pensaba que sería una buena idea viajar al sur para practicar. El solo problema, yo soy trans y no sé si será seguro para mí (no sé mucho de los leyes o cultura sobre LGBT en Sur America). Tenéis los consejos de donde puedo viajar en seguridad?