How to Spanish

Do you have any suggestions?

Thankyou.

Going to depend on what level of Spanish you're looking for but my go-to resource for everyone who needs the bare bones grammar of any level is www.studyspanish.com/grammar

Spanish Grammar Online: Contents (Enrique Yepes, Bowdoin) is very similar but sometimes has more particular topics

If it's more advanced things and you need specific information:

Hispanoteca

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I also recommend Forvo for Spanish pronunciation to hear the differences between Spanish-speaking countries like hearing what LL sounds like in Argentina vs Spain vs Mexico is great

www.wordreference.com is the GOAT especially the forums

And for assorted translation needs I check out ContextoReverso for more everyday Spanish, and Linguee for more formal Spanish

Biblioteca Digital Ciudad Seva – Ciudad Seva - Luis López Nieves is what I sometimes use for reading practice; specifically cuentos which is "short stories" - some are older or public domain, but they are shorter than the actual novels and plays which you could read but it depends on how much time you have

Tiene el español un equivalente para "time flying/time flies" ?

Yes, it's very literal to English - el tiempo vuela which is "time flies"

That expression itself usually is attributed to Latin - tempus fugit which is literally "time flees/escapes"

For reasons I do not know, Spanish uses volar "to fly"... but the word most associated with fugit here would be huir "to flee" which is directly related to that Latin word

[although in Spanish la huida "escape" can also be "flight" as in escape - like "fight or flight" is lucha o huida... not el vuelo "flight" as in actually taking flight]

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There's also a handful of ways to make it sound more idiomatic like - cómo vuela el tiempo "wow see how time flies" which is literally "how flies the time"

There's also a slightly more nostalgic or melancholy way to phrase it: se nos pasa el tiempo

That is "time is passing us by" - se pasa el tiempo is "time is passing by", and the nos indicates "to us"

You could say se me pasa el tiempo "time is passing me by" too

It's how comfortable you feel with using se + indirect objects which is somewhat advanced and can require a lot of explanation to get the grammar/meaning of it if you're not familiar with it

The idea of se nos pasa el tiempo feels as if "time is passing us by" in the sense that it is happening and we can't control it, so it indicates an extreme sense of passivity on the "us" part

While a simple el tiempo vuela / vuela el tiempo can be a more "wow" or happy surprise kind of "it's been so long, time flies" sort of feeling

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In short: el tiempo vuela is the standard, totally fine

I feel like I'm missing some context for this meme https://www.tumblr.com/latinotiktok/818359284226211840 why is it funny that Uruguay didnt change? Are you able to explain? ily

I think it's just the joke of "oh and there's Uruguay, it's also there"

The general way that you say "is it me" or "is it just me" is:

¿Soy yo o...? = Is it me or...? ¿Es cosa mía o...? = Is it (only happening to) me or...?

es cosa mía is literally "is it my thing" but it's asking like "hey does anyone else notice that?"

Another way you can say it is the use of imaginarse

It's going to depend on how comfortable you feel using a reflexive verb; imaginarse is "to imagine"

[side note: imaginar is "to imagine" usually in the literal sense of to imagine something or to picture something in your mind; imaginarse is "to imagine" with a bit more of an emotional oomph it's also "to imagine" but can be used as "to figure" or "to suspect" or "to be of the opinion" - as a command imagínate when used with informal situations is acting someone to "picture something" like "put yourself in this position"........... essentially imaginarse comes out more often when you're putting yourself in the position of hypothetical situations and imagining scenarios and feelings; while imaginar is a less involved version of playing pretend]

You would be saying - ¿me lo estoy imaginando o...? or ¿me lo imagino o...? which both mean "is it just me?" or "am I imagining it or...?"

Oh my god

Okay, so there are a handful of ways to say it, most don't have the same vulgarity to it

There isn't much that has the same standardization or vulgarity but:

Sigue así, y verás qué pasa. = Keep it up and you'll see what happens.

El que busca encuentra. = "The one who looks will find."

And two others that are idiomatic expressions that can be sort of conjugated at will:

jugar con fuego = to play with fire. Often it's like si juegas con fuego, te quemas "if you play with fire you get burned"

sembrar vientos y recoger tempestades = "to sow wind and reap the whirlwind". Biblical, but it's "you reap what you sow" basically. Sometimes it's remolinos "whirlwinds" instead of tempestades "storms"

There are also some that you can just kind of put together. They're not idiomatic but they make sense. Like no jueges o te va a pesar which is "don't play or you'll regret it" as a command of jugar

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I also do want to point out the use of buscar here - while it isn't just "to look for", there are some places and contexts where it can be a little bit more.

I don't know if it's anywhere else but I've seen te lo buscaste for Spain. That is literally "you sought it out for yourself", so it comes off as "you got what you deserved" or simply "you deserved it"

You can often see buscar used that way

The basic buscar peligro "to look for danger" or buscar problemas "to look for trouble". I've also seen estás buscando una paliza "you're looking for a beating"

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I have also heard an expression that I think it's regional but it was like rifar una hostia which is "to raffle off a beatdown" in Spain. The full expression is something like se está rifando una hostia y tienes todas las papeletas

If you make a mistake (and we all do), you can quickly correct yourself and then add the word digo after it

Literally, digo is the present tense yo form of decir "to say", so you essentially are saying "I say" but it comes out like "I should say" or "I mean"

As in... if make a small mistake you can just quickly correct it that way. Like if you accidentally say "una planeta" you can just say un planeta, digo as your correction

The digo is your way of being like "oops I made a mistake, I know it was a mistake and I misspoke here is the actual thing"

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I had one that was "gender fluid sugar simple syrup"

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Because in Spanish azúcar meaning "sugar" can be masculine or feminine depending on the region/context

Not because it's difficult when you've got time to really think about what you're about to say, but sometimes I'll be listing things and then say y and then have to think and then the word I need begins with an I or HI and I'm just like great now I'm failing at grammar