Is "listened to" the same as "heard" in Spanish?
One of my courses says "Usted escuchó la palabra escribirse que quiere decir register or enroll. I would have said "Usted oyó la palabra..." are they both right? Can "listened" mean the same as "heard" in Spanish?
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It seems to me that we covered that in a previous discussion contrasting escuchar and oir if you can find it.
Ok so I read through all that and I came up with this: Escuchar and oír are used interchangeably although escuchar is technically considered "wrong" for the use of hear, but most people don't know or care this it is wrong so they use them both as if they mean to hear. Pimsleur is teaching escuchar to mean to hear so that is a bit frustrating. I guess I will assume they are interchangeable instead of trying to speak perfect Spanish, although I loath to do that.
