How to say "Let's practice"
...something. That would seem to be a fairly common phrase. But the closest I can come to a translation is "practiquemos...", which frankly, I've never heard. And the machine translators give "vamos a practicar" which translates (to me) as we're going to practice, which of course, is not the same thing. So is "practiquemos" right?
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"Practiquemos" is perfectly fine, but somewhat formal. Something you would would normally use when talking to people you don't know that well, or someone older or a respect figure. The most common way to express "lets..." is "vamos a ...." (in your case "vamos a practicar". Many times in informal settings the "vamos" is dropped, leaving you with "a practicar"
I see that the future tenses, such as "practiquemos," is used mostly in writing (both formal and informal settings) and the simple future of "vamos + a + infinitive" is used most often in speech.
Interesting. The local Spanish practice group that meets at the library here is called Practiquemos Español. I´d never really though of it as formal or informal, or normal or not, as for me, from a beginner, it´s always been known as that. Thus it sounds perfectly normal and informal to me. Which is apparently the wrong way to look at it, but the only one I had, until now.
