You guys are so awesome!! I am so glad I found your channel!!! Definitely way more useful than the other Spanish-teaching channels I have encountered in the past! I am doing my best in giving your subscriptions a boost! :-)
Delightfully helpful information for conversational Spanish! But I take issue with your ENGLISH. As an speaker of American English, I hold that you can only "whack" things OFF of something (since it metaphorically refers to hitting something). I think the more appropriate English word would either "SLAP" (as in, "slap on some paint") or "TACK" (as in, "tack on a gratuity to the bill").
Hey :) It actually does mean "slap on" or "tack on" in British English. I might try and use one of the other two in the future so as not to confuse anyone, haha. Thanks so much for watching 😊
Excellent! I had seen some of these in action before, but the deep dive really helps me understand how to use them. Thanks! Is "whacking something on the end" like "raising the window down"? :-). It's amazing what context can convey. I immediately understood what you meant, even though I had never whacked something on before.
Hey Peter! Welcome to the channel + thanks so much for watching :) Yep, exactly! In question form, it's also a common way of expressing doubt, a bit like "Really??" in English 😊
Verdad literally means truth. But colloquially, verdad means “right?” As in “you’re going to the party tomorrow, right?” “Vas a la fiesta mañana, verdad?” De verdad means “really”. As in “are you really going to the party tomorrow?” “De verdad vas a la fiesta mañana?” Espero que eso te ayude
¡A Richard le dio al clavo! You can use "¿De verdad?" as you would "Really?" in English; I think Erika used it in the video because she was skeptical about something. Thanks for watching, Neil :)
Very useful!! but we don't use some of this words this way. she doesn't speak spanish, she speaks latin-spanish, wich is very diferent. En España no usamos esas palabras como decís en el video, ni tampoco esos tiempos verbales. Saludos
I believe the first one is, "Voy a la tienda a tomar, digo, a comprar leche. (I'm going to the store to drink, I mean, to buy milk.)" Tomar can also mean "to drink" like beber Second one is mostly right, but you should also insert a comma and an inverted question mark (if you can type one) between amable and verdad since it's a question tag
Hola :) No, 'este' como muletilla es bastante universal. O no lo usan tanto en tu región o ya lo vas a escuchar por todos lados (es lo que siempre me pasa a mí, jaja).
Voy a la tienda a tomar, digo, a comprar leche. (I'm going to the store to drink, I mean, to buy milk.) Juan es muy amable, ¿verdad? (Juan is very kind, isn't he? right? no? don't ya think?)
Hey Inez! So sorry, this comment must have slipped through the net :/ The first one is entirely correct; we were actually thinking "Voy a la tienda, digo, a comprar leche" per the comment below, but your version is fine too 😊 You could also say "Juan es muy amable, ¿verdad?" for number 2. Number 3 is correct.
