Who gets confused?
Does anyone ever get mixed up with the verbs like how there are so many ways to say the one word depending on who you are speaking to ?
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It comes with practice. It took me several years.
I thought I was doing great until I got to lesson 2.2. That kicked my butt. I figure I will catch on in time.
HI John, however children sometimes make a mistake with irregular verbs, I guess that is the same in English.
For example, a widely misconjugated verb also by adults:
andar
Almost nobody says anduvimos, everybody has the tendency to say: ¡Ayer no veas lo que andamos!
Well nativohablantes actually DO sometimes mix up the gender of nouns. My friend César was talking about a microwave oven one time, and said 'la microondas' instead of 'el microondas'. Yes, I know 'onda' is feminine, but the composite noun of 'microondas' is masculine. Yea, this is a bit more tricky, but it just goes to show that not even nativohablantes are perfect.
-Charlius-
yeah its hardd! i just started spanish this year, and it is sooo dificult for me!
yeah but i have been living here for like 8 months i know a lot of words and how too speak i just dunno the order to put them in
Do you find that the native spanish speakers that you encounter are generally correct in their use of the articles "el" and "la" and do they also match adjectives to nouns correctly?
In all my years of experience with Spanish (and French, for which, the situation is quite similar), I have never once heard a native speaker make a mistake of that sort. On rare occasions you can hear someone who starts a sentence (intending to say one thing) and, then, changes his intent in midstream (and produces some sort of syntactic disagreement between the beginning and the end of the sentence). However, this is a very different situation. Native speakers (of Romance languages) have, from infancy, been trained in the mechanics of dealing with gender/person agreement. To make a mistake at that level would be similar to someone saying, in English, "I is been ... " instead of "I have been ...".
Do you find that the native spanish speakers that you encounter are generally correct in their use of the articles "el" and "la" and do they also match adjectives to nouns correctly?
Yeah. Conjugation does get confusing. I find it a bit confusing when reading to distinguish the conditional and (ER/IR) imperfect tenses (mainly because of the stem changes). However, the present tense and preterit tenses are definitely the hardest and all of the preterit irregulars just make it worse. For example, "Yo digo" is present tense and "Él dijo" is preterit tense. They both are forms of "Decir".
I do not find it difficult, myself....- don't have a problem making the distinction between usted and tu in the singular, for example.
I've been learning peninsular Spanish and so use the vosotros form for the plural of you. So I suppose I might have a problem distinguishing between ustedes to address "them" (addressing using the form for "they", of course) as opposed to "all of you".
But with regard to your question, this seems to be difficult even for people learning English, the grammar for which is really a lot simpler. Sometimes learners simply use the infinitive. We who speak the language can usually understand anyway from the context. My own grandmother, bless her, might even use "do" for the third person singular sometimes..."He do" instead of "he does".
I find it more difficult to get the endings of adjectives to agree with the nouns they modify and catch myself often using adjectives with a masculine ending for a feminine noun.
