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No todo los hispanohablantes en los estados unidos hablan espanol a nivel alto. Muchos usan espanol en solo ciertas situaciones y no tienen oportunidad de practicar. Este video muestra mucho de los errores que hablantes de herencia en los estados unidos pueden hacer.

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When You're Latino & You Suck At Spanish

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En este video se puede ver mucha de las palabras que se encuentran usadas en el espanol estadounidense que no son tipicos en otros paises. Son muy parecidos a las palabras en ingles por la influencia.

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Este video tiene una explicacion sobre code switching y como se usa en el ingles y el espanol. Tiene muchos ejemplos populares como las peliculas, la literatura, y uso en casa.

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Code switching, bilinguismo, y Spanglish

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Code switching, bilinguismo, y Spanglish

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Este articulo habla sobre las diferencias entre code switching y bilinguismo, y spanglish en los estados unidos. Nos dice que en code switching, se usa ingles y espanol en la misma oracion, pero con spanglish se hacen palabras nuevas como "troca" o "crismes."

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Este video pasa por varios accentos con una entrevista sobre como la gente habla. Incluye mexicano, español, ecuador, y honduras.

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When learning Spanish no one tells you that there are different accents and word variations in the Spanish speaking world. As a beginner, this could drive you crazy. This funny video shows you these variations.

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En este video se puede ver el habla chileno. Se puede ver que hay mucha fuerza en la silaba primera de "Chile" que suena más a "Tchile." También se nota que se la d usualmente tiene un sonido muy suave.

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Siempre ahi un chileno metido en todo , en este comercial lo demuestran , el comercial es buenisimo y lo mejor es que oviamente es CHILENO

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En este video podemos ver que los chilenos piensan sobre como hablan los venezolanos. Puedes very que se aspira la s y también no se pronuncia la b con mucha fuerza entre silabas.

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Este es el comercial chileno que se burla de Maduro y su pajarito

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Si recibes una mala señal... Pórtate a WOM! así es el eslogan de esta empresa de telecomunicaciones chilena que se burla del Presidente de la República

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Este video trata sobre los dichos cubanos. Los cubanos se parecen que hablan muy rápido pero eso no es la unica razón que es difícil entenderlos, sino también usan frases muy diferentes del español tipico.

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Dichos y diretes cubanos. Argot cubano. Español a lo cubano.

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Dichos y frases cubanos. Manera popular de hablar de los cubanos. Argot cubano. Manera coloquial del español cubano. Hablando Español a lo cubano. #cuba #portalcoabana SUSCIBETE: https://goo.gl/lo3Vj6 Videos todos sobre la isla de Cuba. Conozca sobre su gente, historia, su cultura. Cada semana, en cada video viajaremos a traves de la isla mayor de las Antillas.

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Este enlace es fantastico. Tiene recursos de varios ejemplos reales de actos ilocutivos y locutivos usando cosas como las noticias y peliculas. Esto me ayuda mucho porque no son ejemplos academicos, sino personales.

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Entre el minuto 2:39 - 2:43, se cumple un acto de habla directivo, cuando Alejandra Azcárate dice "Iván venga para acá" ya que le esta ordenando a Iván Marín, su compañero en el programa Comediantes de la noche, que se le acerque.
Ella quiere que Iván haga lo que ella quiere.

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Entre el minuto 2:39 - 2:43, se cumple un acto de habla directivo, cuando Alejandra Azcárate dice "Iván venga para acá" ya que le esta ordenando a Iván Marín, su compañero en el programa Comediantes de la noche, que se le acerque. Ella quiere que Iván haga lo que ella quiere.

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Como ver la diferencia entre hiponimo y hiperonimos

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Como ver la diferencia entre hiponimo y hiperonimos

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El hiponimo es la palabra mas especifica y el hiperonimo refiere a una relacion semantica que tiene varias palabras. Por ejemplo, lunes y martes son dias. Dia es el hiperonimo y lunes y martes son hiponimos.

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Definición y Ejemplos de Hiperónimo :

Los Hiperónimosson aquellas palabras generales o de mayor extensión que abarca a otros más particulares o específicos que se llaman Hipónimos.

Veamos ahora algunos ejemplos:

Hiperónimo: Día → Hipónimos: Lunes, Martes, Miércoles, etc. o también "Mañana, Tarde y Noche", etcétera.

Hiperónimo: Coche → Hipónimos: Descapotable, Berlina, Deportivo, etc.

Hiperónimo: Ser vivo → Hipónimos: Plantas, Animales, etc.

Hiperónimo: Lentes → Hipónimo: Gafas, binoculares, prismáticos, etc.

Hiperónimo: Equino → Hipónimos: Caballo, potro,...

Hiperónimo: Ropa → Hipónimos: Blusas, Faldas

Hiperónimo: Vivienda → Hipónimos: Casa, Chalet, Piso, etc.

Veamos ahora algunos ejemplos más de Hiperónimos dentro de oraciones (en negrita se señala el hiperónimo correspondiente):

En la carrera de caballos encontré unos "binoculares" que me sirvieron para ver mejor la belleza de los movimientos de los equinos (hiperónimo de caballo). Con estos lentes (hiperónimo de binoculares), pude ver como si estuviera a unos cuantos centímetros, la precisión con que estos mamíferos (Hiperónimo de equino) sincronizan el movimiento de su cuatro patas, lo cual no deja de ser muy interesante. Con los prismáticos (hiperónimo de binoculares) pude apreciar cuando Rocinante cruzó la meta.

El miércoles mis hermanas fueron de compras y compraron varias blusas y faldas; en la reunión con sus amigas, ese mismo día (hiperónimo de miércoles) hicieron un desfile de modas demostrando su habilidad para modelar ropa (hiperónimo de blusas y faldas). Sus amigas votaron por las mejores prendas (hiperónimo de blusas y faldas).

Esmeralda nos invito a una fiesta en su casa, pues pronto será su cumpleaños. Lo que a mi me preocupa es que no le caigo bien a los perros, y en la vivienda (hiperónimo de casa) tiene dos. Pero creo que no habrá problema pues en su domicilio (hiperónimo de casa) tiene un cuarto donde encerrar a sus canes (hiperónimo de perros).

Jaime vino de pronto y nos contó que vio un perro enfermo, cuando llegamos al lugar iba a matarlo a golpes con un palo, pero lo detuvimos; "¡Cómo es posible que lo quieras matar, si está enfermo!... llamemos a alguien". Llevamos al pobre can (hiperónimo de perro) al veterinario. Cuando el veterinario lo curó, el animalito (hiperónimo de can) se hizo el mejor amigo de Jaime.

Ejercicios de Hiperónimos :

Encontrar hiperónimos de los hipónimos que se muestran a continuación:

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Definición y Ejemplos de Hiperónimo : Los Hiperónimosson aquellas palabras generales o de mayor extensión que abarca a otros más particulares o específicos que se llaman Hipónimos. Veamos ahora algunos ejemplos: Hiperónimo: Día → Hipónimos: Lunes, Martes, Miércoles, etc. o también "Mañana, Tarde y Noche", etcétera. Hiperónimo: Coche → Hipónimos: Descapotable, Berlina, Deportivo, etc.

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Para mi el deixis es un concepto muy dificil para entender. Se tiene que tener en cuenta cual es la tema de la oracion y deixis nos ayuda saber todo el contexto. La realidad es que es un concepto muy simple. Solo tienes que identificar cual tipo de deixis se usa y estos ejemplos te pueden ayudar ver cual es cual.

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La deixis es la parte de la semántica y la pragmática relacionada con las palabras que sirven para indicar otros elementos. Palabras como tú, hoy, aquí, esto, son expresiones deícticas que sirven para señalar personas, situaciones, lugares, etcétera.

La señalización deíctica es frecuente sobre todo en las conversaciones cara a cara.

Ejemplos de deixis por tipos

Expresada con pronombres personales de 1.ª y 2.ª persona: yo (mí, me), tú (te, ti...)
También, con los de de 3.ª persona: él, ella, pero con éstos solo cuando señalan a una persona presente en la situación.
Expresada con pronombres posesivos de 1.ª y 2.ª persona: mi, tu, su, nuestro, vuestro...

Expresada mediante adverbios, locuciones y sintagmas adverbiales de presente ( hoy, ahora...) pasado ( ayer, el mes pasado, hace poco...) o futuro ( el mes próximo, dentro de poco...) y mediante morfemas de tiempo ( Llegó, llegas...)

Mañana tengo que llevar pegamento y tijeras
Nos reunimos esta noche en mi casa

Formulada con adverbios de lugar ( aquí, ahí, allí, allá, cerca, lejos...), demostrativos ( este, ese, aquel...) y verbos de significado locativo ( traer, venir...)

Aquí estamos cómodamente sentados
Falta mucho para llegar a ese lugar?

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La deixis es la parte de la semántica y la pragmática relacionada con las palabras que sirven para indicar otros elementos. Palabras como tú, hoy, aquí, esto, son expresiones deícticas que sirven para señalar personas, situaciones, lugares, etcétera. La señalización deíctica es frecuente sobre todo en las conversaciones cara a cara.

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Palabras que cambian significado en el preterito

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Palabras que cambian significado en el preterito

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En español, un verbo no siempre significa la misma cosa en el pasado que significa en el presente. Hay muchos verbos donde la semantica de la raíz cambia completamente.

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There are certain verbs in Spanish that change meaning when used in the preterite.

Conocer in its infinitive form means "to be acquainted with" or "to know a person or place." If used in the imperfect, it means "used to know" or "knew someone or someplace" in the past. However the point in time the person or place was first known is a very specific instance, and therefore will be expressed using the preterite tense. In English, the first moment you knew someone is expressed by saying you "met" someone. The preterite forms of conocer are used to indicate the equivalent Spanish concept of "met." Here are examples of conocer in the imperfect and preterite tenses:

Imperfect: conocer = knew, was acquainted with

Yo conocía a Sergio de niño.
I knew Sergio as a child.

Tú conocías bien la ciudad de México .
You were well acquainted with Mexico City.

Laura conoció a Manolo el 14 de febrero.
Laura met Manolo on February 14th.

Mis estudiantes conocieron Madrid durante nuestro viaje educativo a España.
My students became acquainted with Madrid during our Educational trip to Spain.

Saber means "to know a fact." In the imperfect, it simply means "used to know" or "knew a fact" because knowledge of a fact was ongoing. When the moment the fact was first known is the focus of the sentence, it is stated in English as the instance when something was "found out." The preterite forms of saber are the Spanish way of expressing the English idiomatic expression "found out." Here are examples of saber in the imperfect and preterite tenses:

Él sabía la dirección de memoria.
He knew the address by heart.

Poder is translated "to be able." It is always followed by a verb in its infinitive form. This concept is often expressed idiomatically in English as "can (is able to) do something" in the present tense or "could (was able to) do something" in the past.

The imperfect forms of poder express an ongoing ability to do something in the past. In a negative sentence, the imperfect tense of poder indicates an ongoing lack of ability to do something that was assumed or obvious. Used negatively in the imperfect, the indication is that one never specifically tried to do something but, rather, assumed the inability was ongoing.

Poder is used in the preterite tense to indicate a specific time when an ability to do something was not normally the case. In English a speaker says "I managed to do it" when something isn't typically do‐able.

In a negative sentence, the preterite of poder means that one could not do something at a specific time. In order for there to have been a specific time when one could not do something, the idea is that one tried and failed. Here are some examples of poder in the imperfect and preterite tenses in affirmative and negative situations:

Imperfect affirmative: poder = was able, could do something

Constanza podía cantar como un pájaro.
Constanza could (was able to) sing like a bird.

Querer in the imperfect means "wanted or loved in an ongoing manner." However, in the preterite, querer indicates that the wanting was to no avail. Used in the preterite negatively, querer is understood to mean that one not only didn't want to do something, but refused to. Here are some examples of querer in the imperfect and preterite tenses in affirmative and negative situations:

Imperfect affirmative: querer = wanted something or wanted to do something (ongoing)

Benito siempre quería un barco.
Benito always wanted a boat.

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Verbs That Change Meaning in the Preterite

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There are certain verbs in Spanish that change meaning when used in the preterite. Conocer in its infinitive form means "to be acquainted with" or "to know a person or place." If used in the imperfect, it means "used to know" or "knew someone or someplace" in the past.

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Este video muestra cuales lenguas vienen de cuales otras lenguas en la familia indo europeo. Nos muestra cuando desarollo el español y lo compara a las otras lenguas romances y también el ingles.

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Latin and Its Indo-European Language Family

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Origen de dialectos españoles en sur america

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Origen de dialectos españoles en sur america

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Español no es solo una lengua romance que tiene influencías arabes. El español en sur america también tiene mucha influencia de las lenguas indigenas como nahuatl y guarani. Este enlace habla sobre cuales lenguas indigenas han afectado español en ciertas regiones.

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Latin American Spanish Dialects and Spanish Translations.

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In Latin American the Spanish language has variants or dialects. Trusted Translations will help you determine the best choice of Spanish for your project.

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Este video nos cuenta de como latin se convirtió en español y todo las otras lenguas que vinieron de latin. El foco del video es en decirnos que porque hay muchas raíces de la lengua española, la lengua es muy utíl en aprender la historia de otras lenguas en íberia y europa.

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Aqui tengo un quizlet sobre los alofonos en español. Hay muchos alofonos y es dificíl memorizar los simbolos entonces quizlet puede ayudar. Necesito memorizar estos para el próximo examen.

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alofonos en espanol Study Sets and Flashcards | Quizlet

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Una introducción al concepto de morfología y una explicación del vocabulario asociado con lo. Explica la diferencia entre la raíz y los afijos, incluyendo los derivativos.

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Está pagina tiene todo los simbolos de IPA para que puedo usarlos en examenes y tareas. Las letras se listan por modo y punto de articulación entonces es más facil saber cual es correcto.

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Type IPA phonetic symbols - online keyboard

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This IPA keyboard allows you to type pronunciations of English words as they appear in major English dictionaries from publishers like Longman, Oxford, etc. Dictionary transcriptions are "phonemic transcriptions". They only give you the broad-strokes view of the pronunciation - just enough to make sure you won't confuse two different words.

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Está imagen representa los morfemas temporales en el ingles. No se pueden traducir directamente al español, pero nos ayuda pensar sobre el concepto de cuales aspectos tenemos que considerar cuando tenemos afijos.

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Diferencias entre la sintaxis en ingles y español

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Diferencias entre la sintaxis en ingles y español

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En la mayoría de los casos, la sintaxis del ingles y del español son muy similares. Pero también hay diferencias chiquitas como por ejemplo, la posición del verbo y subjeto siendo mas flexible en español que en ingles. Este prezi tiene informacción sobre esta tema.

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Analysis of the differences in the syntax of the Spanish and English language.

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Es un video sobre la diferencia entre fonemas y alófonos y tambien fonetica y fonemas. Y video explica muchas cosas sobre como representar los sonidos y indentificar pares minimos. El video ayuda mucho con aprendiendo la terminología.

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Español 423 videoclip-- Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/youtube/ -- Create animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video.

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Este video muestra como hablantes de ingles usan tono frecuentemente en su conversaciones. Es posible también que mucho sobre esto también aplica a español, porque palabras cambien dependiendo del tono de la voz.

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"Tone" doesn't make any sense when you think about it. NOTE 1: Sometimes people will talk about "secondary stress" or "secondary accent" or something like that. This is a thing, but what I'm talking about here is "primary accent," which is the most stressed syllable in the word.

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Usanda la sintaxis hay mucha posibilidad de hacer oraciones que tienen más que un significado. Esta pagina tiene ejemplos de esas oraciones en ingles, pero nos ayuda pensar sobre el subjeto en español.

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I came across this headline in the Wall Street Journal:

Republicans Grill IRS Chief Over Lost Emails

This type of sentence has great possibilities because of its two different interpretations:

1. Republicans harshly question the chief about the emails

2. Republicans cook the chief using email as the fuel

It's a perfect tool to: demonstrate careful reading, showcase the need for editing, and encourage creativity and divergent thinking.

Even More Meanings

The ambiguous headline took me back to my college days when a professor shared this sentence:

I saw a man on a hill with a telescope.

It seems like a simple statement until you begin to unpack the many alternate meanings:

There's a man on a hill, and I'm watching him with my telescope.

There's a man on a hill, who I'm seeing, and he has a telescope.

There's a man, and he's on a hill that also has a telescope on it.

I'm on a hill, and I saw a man using a telescope.

There's a man on a hill, and I'm sawing him with a telescope.

See how many meanings your students can catch!

More Examples

Here are some other ambiguous sentences (more at this Wikipedia page):

We saw her duck.

1. We looked at a duck that belonged to her.

2. We looked at her quickly squat down to avoid something.

3. We use a saw to cut her duck.

He fed her cat food.

1. He fed a woman's cat some food.

2. He fed a woman some food that was intended for cats.

3. He somehow encouraged some cat food to eat something.

Look at the dog with one eye.

1. Look at the dog using only one of your eyes.

2. Look at the dog that only has one eye.

3. Updated (via Alice, age 7): Perhaps the dog has found an eye somewhere, and we're looking at the dog.

I could definitely see these as a daily challenge to uncover as many meanings as possible. And illustrations would be wonderful!

Include A Classic
Update 10/27/2015: Replaced the broken YouTube video
I'm always on the lookout for a way to connect great ideas from the past to a typical lesson. Groucho Marx is a king of these linguistic jokes, with his most famous being this quick quip about an elephant:

Your kids may have seen "that guy" before, but probably haven't experienced the Marx Brothers humor in action, which is still remarkably funny.

Challenging Parts of Speech

These sentences are also a great connection to wordplay, puns, and parts of speech. They can be really unusual examples that push students to truly understand the material. Your kids can try to identify parts of speech in sentences with multiple uses of a single word, with the ultimate example being:

Will Will will the will to Will?

Create Your Own

Of course, there will be a group of students who want to create their own cleverly ambiguous sentences. Have them look closely at the patterns in the examples you give. The key is to build the sentences around homographs and homonyms, words that look the same but have different meanings.

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I came across this headline in the Wall Street Journal : Republicans Grill IRS Chief Over Lost Emails This type of sentence has great possibilities because of its two different interpretations: Republicans harshly question the chief about the emails Republicans cook the chief using email as the fuel It's a perfect tool to: demonstrate careful reading, showcase the need for editing, and encourage creativity and divergent thinking.

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Usé este libro para mí clase de linguística en mí segundo año en UT. El libro habla sobre mucha de las temas que está un nuestro libro, como gramática universal, foneticas, etc. Puedo usar este libro para repasar materias en íngles si es muy difícil en español.

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Esta imagen me ayuda con la doble articulación. Dice que el lenguaje tiene doble articulación porque hay sonidos que tienen significados (como palabras) y sonidos que no tienen significado (letras usualmente). Resultá en una diferencia entre sonidos donde las unidades mínimas tienen significación, y los que no.

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Hay varias pruebas en Quizlet que puedo usar para aprender la linguistica del libro. La mayoria de lo que hay aqui es de vocabulario entonces puedo usar Quizlet para ayudarme aprender eso, pero si hay un concepto que no entiendo es mejor pregunatar a la profesora.

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spn 330 Study Sets and Flashcards | Quizlet

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Este video me ayuda recordar que las lenguas son evolucionarias. Es imposible ser completamente prescriptivo con las lenguas como sugiere el capitulo. Hay tanto intercambio entre las lenguas que se tiene que aprender como son, y no como deben ser.

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Este video es interesante porque nos muestra la diferencia de cuales alofonos se usan en diferentes partes de sur america. Tambien hay vocabulario diference pero se enfoca en palabras que tienen las mismas fonemas pero diferences alofonos.

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Argentina vs Chile ¿Quién gana? | Reto de los idiomas

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Como construir las diagramas sintagmáticas en español

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Como construir las diagramas sintagmáticas en español

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Creando diagramas sintagmáticas en español es muy similar a en ingles. Simplemente empiezas con la regla y después abajo tienes que poner la palabra que corresponde a toda las reglas arriba. Hay una lista de cuales reglas existen en el padlet de la profesora si necesito buscar eso.

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Diferences morfológicos entre ingles y español

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Diferences morfológicos entre ingles y español

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Hay mas diferencias aqui que simplemente las diferencias morfológicas pero la mayoría son sobre morfología. La morfología en español tiene muchas diferencias de la del ingles porque tenemos cosas como genero en sustantivos, y ingles tiene sustantivos possesivos.

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Pack your bags and grab a map.

We're headed to a place where bras are masculine,

Where the number 24,345 is less than 25,

And where "No, I don't have nothing" is totally acceptable.
Welcome to the land of Spanish language.
While Spanish may not be the most difficult second language for a native-English speaker to learn, there are definitely quite a few things that one might find strange, contrary or hard-to-grasp at first.

Here, we'll give you a peek at some of those tricky and seemingly-absurd concepts.

For instance, why is there not a subject in many sentences? Why would a bra ever be considered masculine? Why is there a comma instead of a period? Why is this capitalized and not that?

Certain small differences may be enough to throw off a sentence entirely for those who are not familiar with them.

When studying Spanish, first recognizing the similarities and differences between English is a good practice to figure out what you already know, and what needs work.

Here, we'll give you a peek at the top ten most important differences to know between English and Spanish.

1. Spanish nouns have a gender

What do an apple, your mom and and scissors have in common?

They're all feminine nouns in the Spanish language.

While assigning gender to objects is something that is common in other languages, it's almost unheard of in modern English. For native-English speakers, it can be a bit overwhelming at first.

In the Spanish language, every noun is considered to be either masculine or feminine, and the articles "the," el (masculine) or la (feminine), will often accompany the noun to demonstrate which gender the noun is.

It sounds easy enough, but mastering gender gets much more complicated since it's something that affects various parts of the sentence. In order to speak the language properly, there is much more to be learned than just the articles that precede the word. Relative pronouns, adjectives and more within the sentence must also be modified according to the specific gender of the subject.

Another possible difficulty of learning gender is simply remembering and recognizing what the gender of a word is. Usually words that end with the letter are masculine, and words that end in the letter are feminine, which is simple enough to remember. But of course, there are many words that have different endings and those that are irregular and unintuitive.

While there are still nine more items on the list, don't worry-they're not all as big as gender.

2. Adjectives come after the noun

Next on the list, we have adjectives, which bring forth several differences in use from Spanish to English.

For starters, in Spanish the adjective generally comes after the noun instead of before. For example, if you wanted to say "the black suit," in Spanish, you'd say el traje negro (literally: the suit black).

Not too tricky, right?

Most all of the time, this will be the setup. But... sigh... of course, there are always a few exceptions to every rule. With select types of adjectives-such as quantifiers, for example-they come before the noun. So if you wanted to say "the only house," it would have the same order as English, la única casa.

The most difficult part of mastering adjectives in Spanish could be remembering to correctly modify them. What is simple about English is that many parts of the sentence will stay the same despite the subject. In Spanish, however, if the subject is plural and feminine (for example), the article and adjective accompanying the subject must also be plural and feminine.

Let's look at an actual example: To say "the red flowers," in Spanish, we say las flores rojas. See how the article, noun and adjective all end in -s since it's plural, and las and rojas end in -as since is feminine. If we only had "the red flower," singular, it would be la flor roja. And if it were a masculine word like (the cat),the plural would be los gatos rojos (the red cats).

Once you get the hang of it, this really isn't so bad-and here are all the details you need to be a pro at Spanish plurals.

3. Negation is much simpler in Spanish

Is the word "unefficient," "inefficient," or "nonefficient"?!

In English, negation can be much more complicated than it has to be.The variety of prefixes-like "non-," "un-," "dis-," "in-"-and many other trickster negative words are often required in order to properly negate a word. And when constructing sentences, we also must be careful to avoid using double negatives.

Luckily for you, in Spanish, it's much simpler than this. In a sentence, usually just putting no before the verb will negate it, and there are fewer prefixes to confuse you.

When making Spanish sentences, double negatives are supposed to be used, rather than avoided. English requires that we mix negative and affirmative words, which may create confusion for non-native English speakers. In Spanish, it is far easier to determine what is being said since the words agree with each other.

For example, to say "I do not want anything " in Spanish, you would say "No quiero nada," which translates literally to "I don't want nothing." It keeps the two negative words together ( no, nada) rather than mixing a negative with a positive-so if you can just remember that, you're golden!

4. Possessive nouns don't exist in Spanish

In English, all you have to do is slap an apostrophe "s" to the end of a noun and presto, you've made it possessive: "Adam 's jacket."

This isn't the case in Spanish; to specify belonging in Spanish, most often de is used to connect the possession to its owner. To say "Adam's jacket," for example, we would say la chaqueta de Adam, which translates literally to "the jacket of Adam."

Not too difficult, right?

Luckily, learning the rest of the possessive words isn't difficult either. Possessive adjectives and pronouns are also used in Spanish, and follow a very similar format to English.

5. In Spanish, the subject of a sentence often doesn't have to be stated

So you spent weeks memorizing the countless conjugations of Spanish verbs, and are wondering "Why does this have to be so darn complicated?!"

Undoubtedly, they can seem stressful and overwhelming at first, but once you start forming sentences, you'll see how much the rest of the sentence becomes simplified after.

By using the proper conjugation in Spanish, you already know the tense and the subject without explicitly stating it. Because of this, it is more acceptable to leave out some parts of a sentence that we would normally state in English, such as the subject.

For example, to say "I sleep" in Spanish, it's okay to just say , rather than both the subject and verb, yo duermo.

6. In Spanish, the verb "to have" is often used to express feeling

In English, if a person were to say "I have 20 years," we may think they were referring to a prison sentence.

Innocently enough though, when translated directly to Spanish, this would be the usual way for a person to express their age. In Spanish, there are several instances in which the verb tener (to have) is used to stay phrases that are expressed with "to be" in English.

Tener is often used when speaking about something that is attributed to us, or something that we are experiencing.

For example, age is stated with tener:

Tengo 20 años. (I'm 20 years old.) - Literally: I have 20 years

It's also the verb that's used to say "I'm hungry ": Tengo hambre (literally: I have hunger), tengo prisa (I'm in a hurry) or tengo miedo (I'm scared).

The list doesn't end there, but now that you're aware of this phenomenon, you can watch out for it as you progress with your Spanish.

7. There are fewer prepositions in Spanish

In, over, under, about, on, across, behind...

In English, we use dozens of prepositions to determine the exact location in time and space of an object.

Prepositions definitely play a much smaller role in Spanish, with fewer words, which may seem to leave ambiguity to an English speaker. For many cases in which we would use "in," "on," and "at" in English, we just use the word en in Spanish.

Here are a few examples to help you out:

La manzana está en el refrigerador. (The apple is in the refrigerator.)

Mi perro se sienta en la alfombra. (My dog sits on the carpet.)

The word de in Spanish can also take the place of many English prepositions. It may be used to mean "from," "in," "of" and in some caseseven more.

Here are a few more examples:

Los Estados Unidos de América (The United States of America)

Distinguishing which preposition to use and when may confuse some Spanish learners, but with the smaller pool of words to choose from, it shouldn't take too long to master.

See, maybe learning Spanish isn't so hard after all.

8. The word "it" is often omitted

It seems like it would be hard to speak without using the word "it," right? I mean, I just used it three times in the previous sentence. When describing the weather, we say "It's cold outside, " and when chatting with others, "What is it?"

We use the word in these contexts every day in English, while in Spanish it's found much less often. This is mostly thanks to the fact that #5 exists-subjects are inferred through the conjugated verb.

For example, going back to our first sentence, "it seems" can be translated to parece, and "it would be" as .

Here's one more example: We'd say "it is big" in English, but in Spanish you only have es grande. The same suit is followed for many similar sentences.

9. Capitalization and punctuation is slightly different in Spanish

While much of the punctuation stays the same for these two languages, there are a few slight differences to note.

In English, there is only punctuation at the end of a sentence, whereas in Spanish when asking a question or expressing excitement, punctuation is placed at both the beginning and the end of the sentence.An upside-down question mark or upside-down exclamation point will start the sentence, and a right-side up mark will end it. For example:

¡Qué suerte! (How lucky!)

¿Quieres cenar conmigo mañana? (Do you want to have dinner with me tomorrow?)

Secondly, in the Spanish language when writing out numbers, a period will separate numbers by the thousands instead of a comma, and a comma will separate whole numbers from decimals. For example, thirteen-thousand dollars and twelve cents would be written as $13.000,12 in Spanish.

Lastly, there are just a few simple differences in capitalization between the two languages. Days of the week, months of the year and languages aren't capitalized in Spanish. There are more situations where Spanish doesn't capitalize words that English does, but those are the first categories you'll come across.

10. Spelling is much easier in Spanish

Why don't "cough" and "dough" rhyme? And what's with "gnat" and "knot"?

In the English language, we can have spelling bees because of how irregular, difficult and unintuitive spelling can be. In Spanish, usually spelling a word is so simple that it can almost always be accomplished just by sounding it out.

While in English, letters can sound long, short or even silent-creating over a dozen different vowel sounds-in Spanish, there are only five. Simply enough, each vowel in the Spanish language only has one unique sound.

This will come as a relief down the road in the learning process, but for starters, learning how to use the letters may be a bit difficult for non-native speakers. While we use the same letters, the way some of them are pronounced can sound rather different in the Spanish language, and additions like diaereses, accents and tildes must also be used.

The most trouble with spelling in Spanish for English speakers comes from the false cognitive sound of letters. For instance, in Spanish, the letter "v" is often pronounced like English "b," and what sounds like an English "y" is actually a Spanish "ll." To get a grasp on Spanish pronunciation, here's your ultimate guide.

No one ever said that English and Spanish were similar languages, but by knowing 10 main ways that they differ, learning will be that much easier.

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