La Palabra del Día: Platicar- to chat, to talk, to converse

Question

Post your sentences here and vote for the ones you like. Tomorrow I will select "the correct answer" according to the number of votes each one gets.

My submission:

Priscilla y yo platican por teléfono por una hora anoche durante el juego de fútbol.

Answer 1

Me gusta placticar con mis amigos cada día.

Answer 2

Me encanta ser pescando en el Mar de Cortez y platiqué todo el día (y por supuesto cogido pascados).

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I love to be fishing on the Sea of Cortez and chat all day ( and catch fish of course).

Have you mixed verb tenses here? You mispelled pescados. Darn good sentence though. - Goyo, Oct 4, 2009

No I think "pascando" is correct for "fishing". - Daniel, Oct 5, 2009

Also: You must say "estar pescando." This is the present progressive. "Me encanta ser pescando" sort of sounds like "I love being 'pescando'" as if your name is "Pescando." - Nick-Cortina, Oct 5, 2009

Thank you Nick. I did not feel good about using "ser" when I wrote this -- I should have gone with what sounds good to my ear. - Daniel, Oct 5, 2009

No, it's pescando which is correct for fishing, and you got that right. But you mispelled pescados, spelling it pascados. - Goyo, Oct 5, 2009

Answer 3

"Platicar" is a verb used mainly in Mexico and some Central American Countries. We don't use it in South America.

In Colombia we say: "charlar" o "conversar"

I have heard charlar and conversar used in Spanish spoken by immigrants of Guatemala, Salvador and Mexico, too - Izanoni1, Oct 3, 2009

It says that on the "Word of the Day" page today. "Notes- Platicar is used mostly in Mexico and Central America. " - Goyo, Oct 3, 2009

In Bolivia it is Charlar. - ian-hill, Oct 5, 2009

Answer 4

Me encanta estar pescando en el Mar de Cortez y ayer platiqué todo el día (y por supuesto cogiendo peces).

Hi daniel, Nick is to be taken seriously, his Spanish is really good

You used the tenses wrongly and it had to be cogiendo, not cogido.

Peces: fish (alive) pescado: fish (dead, food)

Platicar:

No usamos la palabra platicar en España, es más, mucha gente no la entendería.

I take all comments seriously -- for sure from Nick. I would usually use "charla" myself. - Daniel, Oct 5, 2009

Answer 5

No me gusta placticar por teléfono nunca.

¿Jamás? - Goyo, Oct 3, 2009

Raramente, hace cinco meses que hablé por teléfono con alguien. - lorenzo9, Oct 3, 2009

Answer 6

Pues, me encanta platicar contigo, ¿pero a tí te gusta platicar conmigo también?

(Y todos respondieron: "¡no!" )

Isabela, claro que sí me gustaría platicar contigo :) - Valerie, Oct 5, 2009

Answer 7

Platicaron por teléfono toda la noche.

They talked on the phone all night. I hope this is right I am still not sure when to use the preterit and imperfect.

Answer 8

Me encanta platicar trivialidades con mis amigos. Trivialidades = platitudes in English

Answer 9

Me gustaría platicar con usted sobre el aprendizaje del español. (This seems a little stiff. Any better suggestions are welcome.)