h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hola, todo el mundo... hablen aqui!

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Hi, everyone... talk here!

Hola, Me llamo Kat.
Soy Espanol estudiante.
Solo hablo ingles.
Como....do I make the underside down question marks and accents etc again?


Hello my name is Kat
I am a spanish student (couldnt work out spanish learning researcher)
I speak only english

Eres estudiante espanola?
No eres estudiante inglesa de espanol?

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You're a student who is Spanish?
You're not an English student of Spanish?

(Don't worry about the inverted punctuation on here, we just understand that they're there )

Podría ser ambos

I could be both...

yes people Im using an online translator and a phrase book

Podría ser las dos...

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I could be both...

(incidentally, that also means 'she could be both' )

I wasn't aware I was part of the Spanish department! I applied to be Esperanto department head and there isn't even a page for that yet.. So, I guess I better fufil my duites here!

I only know

No helado por usted sen~or.
(No ice cream for you mister)

Hola, me llamo Scandrea, y quiero hablar espanol. Hace tres anos que hablar espanol mucho, y mi espanol no es tan bueno.

Hi, my name's Scandrea, and I want to speak Spanish. It's been three years since I've spoken Spanish much, and my Spanish is not as good.

Hola Scandrea! Cuando tengo un ordenador con la Red en casa, voy a enseñar más frecuentemente. Pero ahora, tiene que hablar con los otros .

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Hi Scandrea! When I have a computer with the Net at home, I'm going to teach more often. But for now, you'll have to talk with the others

No hay de que. Voy a esperar para Usted, y los otros.

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No big thing. I'm going to wait for you and the otheres.

Pero puedo usar los ordenadores en el colegio; entonces, podemos hablar un poco a veces?

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But I can use the computers at school; so, we can talk a little bit sometimes?

Sí! Lo me gusta.

Yes! I'd like that!

Buenos tardes a todos
No hablo mucho espa~nol,pero quiero mucho las linguas

Good afternoon everybody
I don't speak much Spanish, but I just love languages

Buenos tardes a todos. Yo hablaba espanol pero se me olvido' mucho.

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Hi everybody. I used to speak Spanish but I've forgotten a lot.

I think I should search for my spanish books first - it's been quite a while and I have forgotten everything

Pienso es mejor quando busco mi libros de Espanol - no he aprendido espanol por mucho tiempo y he olvidado todo

Yo tambien! Trato de aprender un otra vez!

Me too! I'm trying to learn again!

To make accents, upside down exclamation points and question marks you hold the alt key whilst pressing a series of numbers on the numpad on the right of the keyboard:

Alt 0191 = ¿
Alt 0161 = ¡
Alt 130 = é
Alt 160 = á
Alt 161 = í
Alt 162 = ó
Alt 163 = ú
Alt 164 = ñ
Alt 165 = Ñ

Hope that's helpful...if it even works...

Thanks for these - the trouble is, they tend not to work in h2g2! For acute accents (the only kind in Spanish, since grave accents aren't used), Windows users can hold down the AltGr key and press the vowel. But for everything else, we have to resort to copy/pasting from Character Map...

Well, at least, they don't tend to work for me in h2g2...

Hi, I am currently learning Spanish using the BBC course 'Sueños - World Spanish' and an American course 'Learn in Your Car'.
I have also just come across the Pimsleur course.
Please share your learning experiences.
Random Mood.

Yo aprendo en colegio Estoy pasando A-levels.

I learn in a school (sixth form) I'm taking A-levels.