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[secondcenturywarlord]

nieva, llueve, no importa el tiempo-- yo voy a caminar a la parada de autobús, lo ir al centro, y ir a cada uno de mis clases 🩵🩰

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¡Una educación como esta ayuda a crear un espacio donde se ve y se celebra cada identidad!

[secondcenturywarlord]

Estoy comiendo un almuerzo ligero (pimientos, arándanos, castañas de cajú, pan, y leche) antes de ir al concierto de la compañía de danza de una de mis maestras de baile (un oración demasiado largo? 🥲)

Mañana, ¡mi mamá y yo vamos a ver El Cascanueces! ¡Estoy tan emocionada!🤍

[secondcenturywarlord]

Hacer esta noche...

practica ASL (review unit 1, ch. 1 + 2) ✔️

practica español (las palabras diaria, el cuento diario, más?)

estira, mientras... ✔️

mirar algunos episodios del Eric Andre Show ✔️

❗️¡compra más kratom! ✔️

duerme bien 😴 ✔️

[secondcenturywarlord]

I started learning ASL!! Hopefully can incorporate that into this blog as well!

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[secondcenturywarlord]

Hoy me levanto temprano y lavo los platos. En una hora, voy a un grupo de apoyo para mujeres discapacitadas— estoy emocionada, pero nerviosa también.

Después de la del grupo, voy a tomar el autobús a la casa de mis padres. Voy a visitar con ellos y mis gatos, y a las tres y media, voy a ver al oculista para conseguir mis lentes nuevos.

No hay clase de ballet esta noche, entonces voy a pasar toda mi tarde con mi pareja 🥰

[secondcenturywarlord]

neat!!

[secondcenturywarlord]

I think I've mentioned that el michi is slang for "kitty" and just a cat in general but two other things you should know if you're online in Spanish

I don't know if this is specific to a country but if you see the word firulais it tends to mean "dog" as slang [I've read it's a Spanish derivation of "free of lice"], so if you see anything related to a firulais they mean "dog" or "doggie"

The other thing you should know because it's a bit confusing is that especially in animal lover spaces the default name for a pet owner seems to be "Karen" (usually a woman, just in case it wasn't clear)... so if you end up in a Spanish-speaking instagram account where a michi is talking to their Karen it's a cat talking to the owner

[secondcenturywarlord]

Is there a common way in Spanish to say something like "same shit, different day" in response to a greeting like "what's up"? How about something like "you see it", also as a response?

The expression is la misma mierda de siempre kind of like "the same shit as always"

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I usually respond with de ensueño or otro día de ensueño which is kind of like "living the dream"... literally it's "ideal/wonderful", or "another dreamy day"; or vivo un sueño "I'm living a dream"

If I was going to say "you see it" I would say something like tal y cómo lo ves "exactly as you see it"

There's also el tiempo vuela cuando te diviertes "time flies when you're having fun"

[secondcenturywarlord]

In Spanish mannerisms, is it common to use the usted conjugation for your peer group? Then as you become well acquainted,you eventually transition to the tú form? Trying to gauge social norms with proper grammar. It's easy to offend when learning a language.

It is no longer common to use it that way, no

Bear with me because I'm going to have to explain how things were, and how things are now to make it make complete sense

For the purposes of general modern Spanish, usted is considered polite and formal, and tú considered more common among your peers and people younger than you. You don't usually have to use usted with someone your same age or in your peer group (like a stranger at university)

Sometimes people use usted with their bosses and superiors, regardless of their apparent age... but there are times when someone will say something to the effect of "use tú with me"

It's not a big social faux pas if you address someone about your age or younger with tú. It could be a bit rude to do it to a client/customer/judge/doctor depending on where you are, but it used to be a bigger mistake than it now is

A lot of countries have relaxed the social norms after moving away from a more aristocratic/feudal society... where usted is now a social courtesy for someone in a respected position, but not because they're "better" than you if that makes sense

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In older Spanish it was more common to use usted with strangers as a courtesy. The roots of the formality/informality are related to title and acquaintanceship; where usted was more commonly used to address someone unknown to the speaker, and its etymology is related to saying "your lordship/ladyship" like saying "sir" or "madam" when speaking to someone

It was common to use this form of address in polite conversation to afford someone the respect that their title afforded them, or in cases of unknowns, it was to treat people with respect so as not to accidentally slight someone's reputation

The tú form was then more commonly used with people who were related to you [a sign of intimacy or kinship], and in older feudal settings, more commonly used with servants and people who were lower than your station

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These rules have relaxed considerably since most Spanish-speaking countries either have different rules, or they're not so distinctly feudal in nature

In practice, usted is more commonly used for someone older than you; even with strangers, it's more common to use tú with someone who is your age or younger. And it is considered preferable to use usted when speaking with customers and clients

HOWEVER - this will largely depend on the country in question

As an example, I was taught [in the US] that you should talk to doctors and teachers with usted. However, I've been told by Spaniards for example that they use tú with their teachers, and their teachers use tú with them

Argentina is completely unique in that they use vos for everything and that tú and usted are less commonly used now

Some countries in Latin America prefer to use usted even with children or people they know

And many countries have some kind of use of vos which is in some places more informal than tú and vos is used among friends/relations

Chile, for example will use vos among peers and it's considered more common among the younger generation. But I've been told that vos is considered impolite, practically rude, when used with the older generation - sort of like if you called your grandmother "dude"

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You will find a lot of variation in countries - everyone will understand usted and tú and they're understanding of you being a foreigner and not exactly fitting in with the country's particular social norms regarding formality

Still in a place like Argentina I would expect them to call me vos even if I'm using tú because I never learned the vos conjugation; if I were living/working in Argentina I would go out of my way to learn the vos to fit in better

[secondcenturywarlord]

I would love to follow more accounts for this blog also! Idk if people still make tumblr posts like this, but feel free to like/rb this post if you're a langblr account especially for Spanish or really any Indian languages, but especially Hindi, Konkani, or any Dravidian ones!

[secondcenturywarlord]

OK, ahora voy a ir a cvs y el dispensario para comprar cafeína, tampones, y cbd.

la clase de ballet está cancelado esta noche porque la calefacción está averiado en el estudio ahora ): pero mañana tengo otra clase y miércoles también.

[secondcenturywarlord]

Little pinned post

Hi, I'm Sandhya (or whatever you want to call me, really, I'm not putting my real name on here), I decided to make a sideblog for my language learning stuff💛 (My main blog from which I follow and "like" is @therealchaoschachacha)

Things I will probably post on here...

random journal-type stuff in target languages for practicing

Duolingo screenshots (useful and/or funny)

progress updates

Only Time Will Tell

I'm always happy to receive corrections on anything I post!

Just a little about me...

my native language is English

currently learning Spanish (A1), American Sign Language (Novice), and Hindi (just focusing on the Devanagari for now)

I want to also learn Malayalam and Konkani, possibly some other Dravidian languages

I am a 24-year-old, multiply-disabled queer w@%&# of color; I cannot work, and these sorts of interests help me pass the time.

Feel free to PM me for my Duolingo username. I'll add anyone, just don't want to have it posted right on the blog! Thanks for reading💛

[secondcenturywarlord]

Hacer esta semana...

hace las compras - el té helado, las frutas, los tampones, CBD... ✔️

compra los regalos de navidad - para mamá, papá, y mi sobrina ✔️

lava la ropa ✔️

limpia mi dormitorio un poco ✔️

llama a mi asegurador ✔️

va a la obligación de jurado

va a dos a tres clases de baile ✔️