He decidido aprender español

[Makeo]

and i'm teaching my self until the class i can take starts in January so i'm sure it will be very amusing for everyone.

I'll be your ottok.

[Waku]

Muy bien, eres bienvenido.

Hay muchos links con lecciones de español por aquí.

Por cierto ¿qué significa ottok?

[Dr. Nick]

ottok era un personaje muy querido por unos y muy burlado por otros. El pobre hablaba un ingles patetico (peor que Alf seguro ) y muchos lo burlaban... el pobre se fue con lo que lo gastaban.

*sigh*

Pobre ottok.

[Fiera]

Bienvenido, Makeo!

Now, the first thing you need to know to learn proper Spanish is, don't you ever listen to the Argentinians!

[Dr. Nick]

Callate Fiera! El lunfardo es mucho mas practico que el español

[Marquis de Sodaq]

self-taught spanish?

lo me gusta tambien! soy tambien un yanqui - hablo muy poquito (y mal ) espanol.

Spanglish comes in handy...

[Fiera]

Sí, Spanglish all the way!

Y lunfardo? WTF es eso? El dialecto de tu barrio?

[Dr. Nick]

el lunfardo es el dialecto porteño, pibe!

[Makeo]

El coger me media hora a traducir uno sentencia.

All i have is a dictionary. I will have to get some books from the library. Grammar ect.

[Makeo]

poquito?

[jasev]

Buena suerte aprendiendo español, Makeo.
Trataremos de ayudarte.

I'll correct your first mistakes
"sentencia" means juridical sentence, the correct translation for "sentence" is "frase".

In spanish, almost every word with an "a" as the last character is femenine: you should say "la sencencia" or, in this case, "la frase"

The infinitive verbal form has no preposition before. "To translate" is not "a traducir" but "traducir".

And "to take" has no sense in spanish when talking about time. Yo should have said "Me ocupa" or, quite better, "Tardo... en".

Editing: OOPS! I forgot it: I was wrong, "To take" can be translated as "tomar" when talking about time: it's unused in Spain, but very used in Latin America. It's correct and you can use it, sorry for my mistake. As you see, it's almost impossible to completely understand the spanish language, because there are too many people using it and too sepparated.

So the correct sentence would have been:

"Tardo media hora en traducir una frase"
(As I do with english posts )

But it also would have been correct (not in Spain, but...):

"Me toma media hora traducir una frase"

It's difficult to believe you've made so many mistakes in just a sentence, isn't it? Don't worry, you will improve. And, if you want, you can correct us when we write in english.

¡Buena suerte!

P.S: "Un poquito" means "a little bit"

[Waku]

Originally posted by jasev
And, of course, "to take" has no sense in spanish when talking about time.

What about "me lleva media hora traducir una frase"

[jasev]

Originally posted by Waku

What about "me lleva media hora traducir una frase"

Fue lo primero que pensé, Waku, pero es coloquial (aunque correcto) y, lo más importante, no tiene demasiado sentido desde el punto de vista ligüístico; bastante jodido es este idioma para entrar en expresiones como esa, ya tendrá tiempo el pobre de aprender las sutilezas del Español. Y después, le enseñaremos los tacos .

[yaroslav]

Re: He decidido aprender español

Originally posted by Makeo
and i'm teaching my self until the class i can take starts in January so i'm sure it will be very amusing for everyone.

I'll be your ottok.

Hi! I'm sure that your Spanish will be better, within a month, that my English

[Jay Bee]

Hey Mak, we also do Multiplayer Civ! In Spanish. Loads of fun