"algo relacionado"/alternative

Question

Practicing for my oral exam, I told my teacher: "quiero estudiar algo relacionado a/con lenguas" and she corrected me by replacing "algo relacionado" to something else. Sadly, I didn't write down what she said and I've since completely forgotten it. Can someone tell me a better way to say the above sentence? To be clear, I was trying to say "I want to study something (a subject) related to languages"

Answer 1

Quiero estudiar algo relacionado con idiomas/ lingüistica or even lenguas is correct.

You could say:
Quiero estudiar algo relativo a( los) idiomas. Quiero estudiar algo referente a( los) idiomas. Quiero estudiar algo que tenga que ver con idiomas.
Quiero estudiar algo que trate de idiomas. Quiero estudiar sobre idiomas.
Quiero estudiar acerca de idiomas.

I personally like the first one with relacionado, which your teacher rejected, quite a lot.
Maybe you could ask her again .

great choices - 006595c6, Sep 3, 2017

Muchas gracias; acabé ocupando "que tenga que ver" en mi examen ayer :) - Wedgetail, Sep 5, 2017

If you're still watching this thread, could you tell me what the difference is between "tiene que ver" and "tenga que ver"? Are they interchangeable? - Wedgetail, Sep 5, 2017

Answer 2

Wedgetail, no veo nada mal con tu frase. Puede que, en vez de corregirte, ofreciera, como dices, una alternativa.

Relacionado con/a, Relativo a, que se semeja a, tiene que ver con, algo semejante a. Algo como, así como

Y hay más

Answer 3

I subscribe to the general puzzlement. "Algo relacionado" is perfectly good.

claro, I agree - 006595c6, Sep 3, 2017