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Originally posted by Mr_Trek:¡Hola mi amigos! ¿Cómo estás?

Mycket bra!! Och du?

(Yes, absolutely. Google translate

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Oh, by the way, let me do a little correction to you, I think it will do good for you:
Amigo = friend
AmigoS = friendS

And then, if you use the plural, then you have to use the verb in plural as well:
I am - yo estoy
you are - tú estás
(s)he is - el(la) está
we are - nosotros estamos
you are - vosotros estáis
they are - ellos están

So, if your ¿Cómo estás? question was aimed just to me, then it should have been "¡Hola mi amigo! ¿Cómo estás?" , but if it was aimed to the whole community, it should have been "¡Hola miS amigoS! ¿Cómo estáis?"

Anyway, it's really GREAT to see you writing in Spanish

Mr_Trek

14 years

¡Pardón Sergio!

I fucked up, hahaha. My bad habit of changing what I'm going to say mid sentence combined with laziness. Because I do know that grammar, believe it or not, I'm pretty good at grammar. I actually have the highest grade in Spanish. I also have that in German and English. The only language I don't have the highest grade in is Swedish

Oh, and: ¡Bien, también!

LikeASong

14 years

hahaha, I speak Swedish better than you!!

Nah, it's seriously fantastic seeing you people speaking Spanish every now and then!

For example, Kirsten and I use to exchange Spanish and German roles in our PMs, and it's very very funny because you don't expect such common expressions in your language to come from a 2000 kms away virtual friend

Mr_Trek

14 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:hahaha, I speak Swedish better than you!!

Google translate ain't that good

And yes, it's always a lot of fun to read some Swedish in this forum.

LikeASong

14 years

The bad thing for you is that, while Spanish is almost up there with French and German in popularity and spread, I don't think that the full number of Swedish speakers exceedes the 15-18 million mark worldwide

... I don't even know the basic "hello, thanks, goodbye" thing in Swedish. I know it in a lot of languages including Russian, Japanese, etc etc but in all honestly I never heard them in Swedish

I wish I could learn some Swedish some day!

PS. I know, Google Translate sucks. I laugh a lot when Kirsten translates long sentences from German to Spanish because then the translations remain more or less understandable, but become pretty senseless and funny

Mr_Trek

14 years

Originally posted by LikeASong:The bad thing for you is that, while Spanish is almost up there with French and German in popularity and spread, I don't think that the full number of Swedish speakers exceedes the 15-18 million mark worldwide ... I don't even know the basic "hello, thanks, goodbye" thing in Swedish. I know it in a lot of languages including Russian, Japanese, etc etc but in all honestly I never heard them in Swedish I wish I could learn some Swedish some day!

PS. I know, Google Translate sucks. I laugh a lot when Kirsten translates long sentences from German to Spanish because then the translations remain more or less understandable, but become pretty senseless and funny

hej=hi
tack=thanks
hejdå=goodbye
hur mår du?=how are you doing? (not really correct, since it's a pleasantry in English, and a real question in Swedish)
bra=good
dåligt=bad

Anything else you need to know?

Maybe something for the girls?