how many money am i going to have
how many money am i going to have
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If the question is about the amount of money you are going to have we say "How MUCH money am I going to have." The noun "money" is uncountable so we have to use "much" and not "many".
How "much rice" is there - how "much water" is there etc. We can not say "rices" or waters"
How "many" sisters do you have? - How many "times" have you been to Spain? - here we say "many" because we can count "sisters" and "times". Hope that helps.
I think that one guy up there is missing the point completely, at least the point I was trying to make. The guy TRIED. It was wrong, in fact it was funny and horrible at the same time. That's how you learn spanish. All of you will do the same thing. You'll run into people who will gently correct you, and you'll run into people that just cannot resist showing you how much they know. Don't let them discourage you from your pursuit...which is to communicate yourself effectively in espanol, and hold onto you enthusiasm for this idioma. That guy up there? I'll be glad to meet him in voice chat and give him a little lesson in how to speak spanish. He's welcome to it...I'll tear his ear off the his side of head, he'll never want to speak spanish again. But don't let them like him make you want to not speak. Continue in your pursuits. Dont be discouraged. You are gonna make mistakes, it's unavoidable. And you are gonna run into Jerks along the way. But you'll get there, and you'll be a better person for it. And when the next one comes behind you, don't make fun of him or her. Help him along his/her path. Play it forward. 
Chacamamalo (real name Chris) sent me the following “love letter” today via a PM
Ian...I don't really care what you say or what your opinion is. You wanna know about my day? Well, I woke up and had a coffee...my columbian neighbor was out and says to me, at 5:30 in the morning, Oye! Chris que tu haces? Tu nena, como esta? Then I went to the store to get chorizo. The clerk me dejo, Hola, moreno! Como estabas? Porque no pasas por aqui como antes? Then I talked to him a while and I split. Then I ran into another friend. He says...Mire el malo!! Que haces moreno? and then we went on at great length about the new Wishin y Yindel album. Then I came home. All this took place in spanish, by the way, Ian. Do you do that? No. Where do you speak spanish? In this world. To me, like just about everyone else here, you are just a fake, you never actually speak spanish to anyone, and you never write in spanish. Just know that when I see you, I know you are a fake. Chris.
“Bad boy” if you don’t want something broadcast then don’t send it to me.
¿Cómo sabes que yo no hablo español? Tal vez no tan bien como usted, pero estoy mejorando. ¿Por qué? Porque hay gente aquí en SpanishDict que me ayudan. Usted no es una de esas personas. (Is your Spanish so hot? - even I can see mistakes and they are not all typos)
¿Quiero saber acerca de su día? No, no, no. No quiero que usted sepa acerca de mi día, así que no voy a escribir algo al respecto.
You don’t have a chip on your shoulder – you have a whole tree. Have a smiley sweetheart I hope it makes you feel better.
Sure is self centered to think someone in here cares what I said to you. If they are anything like me, they are laughing at you right about now. Everyone here knows who I am, what type I am. Probably most are thinking "what, he don't know how Chris is." Like I said, I'd be laughing at you right about now for thinking someone wants to know what I sent you. And by the way? I get lots of mail about you. You aren't the most like person around. Most think you are a stiff brit that needs to get a grip. Most will probably think you deserved what you got. Some won't. Who cares?
For the record, I thought Juan Juan's post was excellant with a little learing and humour thrown in at the end. Ian F also gave a good answer and then it kicked off. In a bar after a couple of beers it could have been a 'right good 'un' ( colloquial (spelling) for 'very good'
lol...rotflmao...here we go...the family is assembling around the table and this is about to be the most popular post of the day....lol
JohnJuan said:
I didn't say anything in his error because that's not my personal form of being.
Then what the hell are we doing here if we're not here to correct errors and lean from the mistakes? You can still point out a posters errors AND encourage them to keep up the good work.
If I felt such a need to say something, I'd say it in private.
If a poster doesn't want his words subject to corrections, then I say don't put a public post out on a Spanish learning site!!!
I said it before and I'll say it again: we are here to learn Spanish (or English in some cases) so what the majority of us are looking for is standard, proper Spanish or English. When I post an answer to a question I keep this in mind and do my best to give him a straight answer. Moreover, if his Spanish or English is incorrect I'm going to point it out.
This is a perfect, PERFECT example of how to learn spanish. Yes sir it's wrong. Yes sir no one speaks that way. Yes sir, this poster will learn the right way to say it. But was he afraid? No. Did he communicate the idea? Yes. There is no excuse, NO EXCUSE for not learning the correct way to speak, with a site like this, correctly. It's free, all of us are from different backgrounds, we are making friendships and all, but don't be scuuured. You are gonna make mistakes. That's the learning process. People are gonna laugh at you. That too, is the learning process. But I have yet to meet a native speaker, that didn't have respect for someone who at least TRIED. Remember ustedes this. It's the most important thing, and the reason we are all here. And how many money is he gonna have? Depends on how much he works and how much he saves.
And by the way? Everyone already knows my name is Chris. It's not a State Secret. Everyone also already knows I'm the one who is LKPuede. Maybe it's a surprise to you, but not to anyone else. You see my face? That's me. It's no secret. Anytime I change my name it doesn't matter, becuase my style of speech is always the same and even if I took my pic down, made a new account, people would know who I am. They always did. They know how I talk, and the things I say. It may be a surprise to you, but I can tell you from a great deal of experience, they always know who I am.
Si yo soy el. I'd figure I'd just change my name to "The Brat" so when people see my name they'd now right away! . Besides, I didn't change my face. I didn't change my name five minutes ago, and you all knew it. All of my previous incarnations, everyone knew who I was. It's no biggie.
Dónde está JohnJuan ??? Ahora es Chamacomalo.
IkePuede...er...aguacate...er....JohnJuan....I mean....Chamacomalo todovia está aquí
JohnJuan - you wrote "don't make fun of him or her". Where did I make fun of the poster Lalajir? Can we overcome this and stop jousting please?
Roger said:
I'm lost....Seems like a bit of miscomunication to me.
Me, too.
Ian gave a great answer to the poster.
Then JohnJuan gets all twisted.
What the heck happened here?
Fights always get started...at least with me. Then they go into PM fights and get resolved. I was just saying one thing. And I'm just some other voice at the side. I loved this poster's question. It was all wrong but he tried. And what he wanted to communicate was communicated, to me at least, and I applaud him in his effort. I didn't say anything in his error because that's not my personal form of being. I got it. I wanted him to continue in his studies. And it was cute. If I felt such a need to say something, I'd say it in private. That's all. Lots of people here say this and that but you never ever see them type a single word in spanish, oh but they are so quick to down someone else. I'm not like that. I still applaud this guy and I hope he continues in his studies. That's all Im saying. All of you and me too will make errors, and I hope we are lucky to have someone to encourage us along our way.
How "much rice" is there - how "much water" is there etc. We can not say "rices" or waters"
Not to take away from your point (which was very well stated), but you could ask:
"How many waters do we have?"
to mean
"How many bottles of water do we have?"
