Would you say I constructed these sentences correctly?
I am practicing my spanish everyday Estoy ejercicio mi castellano cotidiano
Everyday I practice my spanish Cotidiano yo ejercicio mi castellao
Would you say I constructed these sentences correctly? Thank you for your time
11 Answers
Learning another language is very difficult task. Unfortunately the only way we learn is by making mistakes...my philosophy is the more you make the more you learn! Everyday I practice my spanish = Cada día practico el español I am practicing my spanish everyday= Estoy practicando el español cada día Cotidiana is a word that means daily more than every day, like la vida cotidiana=daily life Ejercitar I think sounds pretty formal, I think of it more as to drill, to train. ¡Buena suerte!
Am I discouraging from trying? Of course not! I am discouraging from sounding CRAP by using English to speak Spanish! I am encouraging you to COPY Spanish natives and make your Spanish better, if not perfect. You don't like that? You prefer Spanish to sound like English? well, your Spanish will sound crap forever, so good luck.
This is unacceptable , has been unacceptable , and will always be unacceptable on this site.
I am practicing my spanish everyday Estoy ejercicio mi castellano cotidiano
Everyday I practice my spanish Cotidiano yo ejercicio mi castellao Hello:
My advice: you are trying to re-invent Spanish by making it look like English. I assume that you have never studied or analysed other languages, so here's my advice to you: EVERYTHING looks different from English. You can't use English to speak other languages. Anything you try to say will sound as bad or weird as those languages translated word by word into English.
The conclusion? Your commendable attempts at speaking Spanish are a regrettable waste of time, because you can't speak Spanish unless you know how Spanish people speak. Translating from English will produce, at best, bad grammar, and at worst, unintelligible bad crap (no offence).
All your attempts at translating English into Spanish are only reinforcing bad habits that will create something that sounds like a bad joke, while you think you are speaking Spanish. The route is quite different: read, listen and imitate natives. Then, try to repeat what they say. That way you'll be fluent. Read, listen, repeat. Then imitate!
"Estoy ejercicio mi castellano cotidiano" has, unfortunatelly, three grammatical mistakes.
"Cotidiano yo ejercicio mi castellao" is almost unintelligible, and it has four mistakes (no less).
Trust me: read and learn sentences before you try to create what "you think" it is Spanish.
I don't know why you're attempting to lecture me. I asked for help. And you're practically bashing me for trying. It's not like I'm using the translator if that's what you think. You make it sound like you want me to roll over and stop trying rather than help correct my sentence and give me support to keep trying. "Oh you made this many mistakes but I won't tell you why, instead I'm going to tell you that you sound unintelligent and blah blah blah" When a child calls a horse a dog, do you go off on the child and call them an idiot because they got it wrong? No, you tell them what the proper answer is. By the way, saying "no offence" when you say something offencive doesn't make it not.
Tormenta, learning a language is a hard slog. I learned English at school in the Far East for 12 years before moving to England. To start with, I couldn't understand anyone and kids at school laughed at my English. It took me 2 years before I started understanding their jokes and 3 to 4 years before I could write a decent essay. Since then I have learned Danish - but only after 7 years before I could chat comfortably; Dutch - took me 7 years before I can understand a film; Japanese - after 3 years and an GCSE, I can just about order a meal and ask the way! German - on and off for 9 years before I can understand a novel and French - it's been 10 years and I can just about follow a play. And now Spanish - started in earnest since September. I look forward to 2018 when I should be able to talk freely in Spanish!!
But you know what, I also went through the same learning process as you for all the languages. I also tried translating sentences to get a feel for the language. Sometimes it was completely wrong, but, hey once in a while, I got it right. What a great feeling ! So don't be discouraged by the long, perhaps well-meaning lectures. Chin up and carry on. Enveloped in lazarus's diatribe is a grain of truth. Imitating a native speaker is a great way of learning. But beware who the native speaker is and what he says. It's not always 100% fool-proof. Also make sure you understand your mistakes.
I'll shut up now.
Tormenta, bunnaz has given you the best translation "Everyday I practice my Spanish"- "Todos los días practico el español." In Spanish, using the continuous form (practicing) only works when we are talking about an action happening at the exact moment while we are mentioning it, ie: "En este momento estoy practicando....." "Right now I am practicing."
"Ejercicio" is not the same as "Practicar" in Spanish, so I would only use "Ejercicio" when talking about ones physical exercise or possibily exercising a machine, etc, but not in your senario.
And don't worry about your mistakes for they are part of the learning process. Not everyone understands this.
"I am practicing my Spanish everyday"- "Estoy practicando el español todos los días" that's how you'd translate this sentence. But I don't think you'd phrase the sentence like that exactly. The second sentence sounds better: "Everyday I practice my Spanish"- "Todos los días practico el español"
hope it helps...
I am practicing my spanish everyday Estoy ejercicio mi castellano cotidiano
Everyday I practice my spanish Cotidiano yo ejercicio mi castellao
Hello:
My advice: you are trying to re-invent Spanish by making it look like English. I assume that you have never studied or analysed other languages, so here's my advice to you: EVERYTHING looks different from English. You can't use English to speak other languages. Anything you try to say will sound as bad or weird as those languages translated word by word into English.
The conclusion? Your commendable attempts at speaking Spanish are a regrettable waste of time, because you can't speak Spanish unless you know how Spanish people speak. Translating from English will produce, at best, bad grammar, and at worst, unintelligible bad crap (no offence).
All your attempts at translating English into Spanish are only reinforcing bad habits that will create something that sounds like a bad joke, while you think you are speaking Spanish. The route is quite different: read, listen and imitate natives. Then, try to repeat what they say. That way you'll be fluent. Read, listen, repeat. Then imitate!
"Estoy ejercicio mi castellano cotidiano" has, unfortunatelly, three grammatical mistakes.
"Cotidiano yo ejercicio mi castellao" is almost unintelligible, and it has four mistakes (no less).
Trust me: read and learn sentences before you try to create what "you think" it is Spanish.
Tormenta, I'm not saying that you got help or not. What I'm trying to say is that the smartest person on the Earth -change that: a person a 1000000 times smarter than the smartest person on the Earth- will never be able to write a correct sentence in English unless this "genius" has read and heard thousands (if not millions) of sentences in English. Your attempts at writing Spanish are really laudable, but the result is a foreigner trying to talk rubbish for us, because each language expresses things in a way (even English!). So, forget about translating until you know what Spanish is like. It is not just a waste of time, but a way of reinforcing bad habits that will stick to you for the rest of your lifetime. Learn proper Spanish the "baby way": listen and imitate.
You make it sound like you want me to roll over and stop trying rather than help correct my sentence and give me support to keep trying.
Please look at Spanish speakers trying to speak English: their English is beyond appalling! If you don't agree, then everyone can speak everything, but if you think that beginners speak bad English, then your beginner's Spanish should be bad too. I'm not correcting you: I am giving you an advice: A literal translation from English to Spanish will result in rubbish (and the converse is true). Is that what you want? Well... enjoy your rubbish! You hate my being honest? Ok, your Spanish is perfect and you write better than Cervantes. Well done!
What do you want?
When a child calls a horse a dog, do you go off on the child and call them an idiot because they got it wrong?
Does it feel bad? Maybe. But I'm learning other languages as I speak, and I suck in all of them. I am supposed to. You are supposed to. Our task is to familiarise ourselves with these languages until we speak them naturally. That's what I'm trying to do.
If you are trying to be a kind of "Let me try, I'll be fluent without listening to natives", you're plain wrong. All the time.
Again, I'm learning two foreign languages, and I am still at a nearly absolute beginner, as I was in English years ago. I intend to speed things up by copying natives. You do whatever you want, but English translated into Spanish will be crap all the time (like Spanish translated into English). Do whatever you want.
By the way, my daughter speak three languages. What about yours?
No, you tell them what the proper answer is. By the way, saying "no offence" when you say something offensive doesn't make it not.
Am I discouraging from trying? Of course not! I am discouraging from sounding CRAP by using English to speak Spanish! I am encouraging you to COPY Spanish natives and make your Spanish better, if not perfect. You don't like that? You prefer Spanish to sound like English? well, your Spanish will sound crap forever, so good luck.
P.D. I'm learning other languages using "my methods". Shall we compare our progress in a year or so? I bet I can sound close to native within a year or two. Can you say the same?
spanish is hard, dont get discouraged. one thing to remember is that verbs in spanish often function as the subject and the verb of a sentence, so in your case, you dont actually need the word "yo" because ejercicio actually means "i excercise". spanish is very different from english, but it is learnable so dont get discouraged and keep up the good work!
Practico mi español todos los días/diario/cotidiano. Estoy practicando...
