Loca Loco Locas Locos
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Spanish has different ways to express craziness, ‘You’re crazy!’, ‘You’re out of your mind!’ Probably most of you know the Spanish word for crazy, right?
Loco, that's right. But loco not always means crazy or mad. Let's see different ways to use the word loco:
¡Estás loco! - You are crazy!
¡Qué precios más locos! - What a crazy prices! (low, cheap, good)
¡Él está como loco una cabra! - He is crazy like a goat! (That is actually a saying.)
Tomar decisiones a lo loco - to take decisions without think about it carefully
Sara está loca por él - Sara is mad about him (in love)
¡Ni loco! - I'd sooner die!
Ella tiene una suerte loca - she is incredibly lucky
Let's practice crazy related vocabulary with Shakira's song "Loca", video filmed in Barcelona Spain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAhTt60W7qo
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Hola Anna !Thanks for sharing the various expressions. It fits well that I chance upon this one today."Es un día de locos". I hope the sentence construction is correct. And I'm using "un" with "día" coz I'm guessing that despite an "a" at the end, the word is masculine as the greeting is "Buenos Días".Hasta Luego !P.S. September 5th is Teachers' Day in India. So here's wishing you and all my new teachers at Living Language a Happy Teachers' Day :)
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Happy Teacher's Day! A great holiday.
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Thank you for your mesasge Mahima! And happy teachers day to all the Living language eTutors!
The sentence "Es un día de locos" is 100% correct.
The noun "día" is masculine, despite the word ends in -a. That is a general rule that says that -o are masculine, and words that end with -a are feminine
el día — the day
un día — a day
There are many other nouns ending -a that are masculine as well. Let's see some examples:
el agua — water
el alma — soul
el clima — climate
el diploma — diploma
el mapa — map
el poema — poem
el policía — policeman
el planeta — planet
el problema — problem
el sofá — sofa
Do you know any examples of nouns ending -o that are feminine?
For instance la mano — hand -
Thanks for the new words Anna. I'm afraid I haven't done much, so far, to come across feminine words ending in "o". But I'll get on it and get back to you. I had my first e-tutoring session today, but the internet was a huge problem and, sadly, I missed it. I was really looking forward to it after doing and re-doing lessons 1 and 2. Anyway, I'll sign up for it again and hopefully the internet connection would hold. In the meantime, I'd like to share a few sentences with you. Let me know if they are correct.- Soy de India- Hay cinco personas en mi familia- Tengo dos hermanas- La hija de mi hermana es mi sobrinaGracias !Christopher - Teachers' Day is a great day as we remember our teachers and wish them well, but, it isn't a holiday(unless it falls over the weekend). In most schools, the senior most classes get to dress up as their favorite teacher, and even teach, on that day. The day is filled with fun activities and acknowledgement of the great work that the teachers do.
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Hello Mahima!
All the sentences are correct! I am going to translate them to help other students understand their meaning:- Soy de India - I am from India- Hay cinco personas en mi familia - There are five people in my family- Tengo dos hermanas - I have two sisters- La hija de mi hermana es mi sobrina - My sister's daughter is my niece
Very nice! I see that you are practicing possessive articles already, like:
Mi = my (mi hermana / my sister)
Tu = Your (tu madre / your mother)
Let's try the plural for those possessive articles:
Mis = My plural (mis hermanas / My sisters)
Tus = Your ( tus padres / your parents)
I look forward more sentences to correct!
I recommend to take the Orientation Session to get a sense of how Living Language works and get the most of it, but if the schedules available do not work you can also enroll for 1-2 Essential Spanish
I look forward meeting you in your next e-Tutor session or reading you on the Forums!
:)
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Hi Anna,Thanks for reviewing the sentences. I had taken my orientation session and also my first tutorial after lessons 1 and 2. It went well. Regretfully, I could not do anything this last week, but I plan to complete chapters 3, 4 and 5 this week. Here are a few more sentences. I've tried to use plurals as well.- Me gusta aprender Español- Aqui' esta'n mis padres- El señor Pande es mi padre- Las señoras son mis hermanas- Tengo treinta y tres añosI'll work on some more and share.Hasta Luego !
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Mahima, if you didn't get a chance to spend some time with Spanish last week, you might consider doing the first eTutor session a second time. It'll be a lot of review for you, of course, but you know what they say about practice.(PS, I'll let Anna confirm, but I believe you don't have to capitalize the names of languages in Spanish, so: Me gusta aprender español.)Enjoy!Chris
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Hello Mahima and Chris,I am glad to hear you had your first e-tutor sessions. As Chris said do not hesitate to repeat the same level to review and master it.All the new sentences you poseted are correct again. ¡Bien hecho Mahima!I see that you are trying to type accents in the right vowel. "Aquí están"If you don't have an Spanish keyboard you can easily type vowel accents following the next instructions:TO TYPE ACCENTS ON A MAC:
á é í ó ú -> press together (Option + e) and then the vowel.
TO TYPE ACCENTS ON WINDOWS:
á é í ó ú -> press together (Control + Alt) and then the vowelAnd as Chris mentioned, yes in Spanish we do not capitalize the words for languages, months or days of the week. ;)See this example that summarizes:"Tengo una clase de español todos los martes del mes de septiembre" -
For me, the CTRL + ALT + vowel method doesn't work, so I usually type in Word using the following shortcut:
Hold Control down, then type apostrophe then the vowel to get an acute accent over the vowel.
So, CTRL + ' + a = á
CTRL + ' + e = é
And so on.
Then I paste to post. You can also use ALT codes (e.g. ALT + 0225 = á)
directly in your posts if you prefer. Here's a list for vowels:
á 0225
é 0233
í 0237
ó 0243
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You might want to consider adding a Spanish Keyboard.
Windows:
Start>Contro Panel>Regional Configuration and Languages (Icon with a globe and a clock)
A window Pops up. Please select third tab "Keyboards and Languages" and click on "Add Keyboard"
General> Add> Spanish (Argentinean)> Latin American>Accept
When you select Spanish there should be a plus sign next to it. You would need to click on the plus sign so it displays the additional keyboard options.
****** There are A LOT of Spanish Keyboards. I chose Argentinean Spanish.
You would then be back to the General Tab. Make sure you click on Apply and then accept.
Your Keyboard should be set to Spanish now.
How to add the accent to the vowel?
Next to the letter "p" is the left squate bracket. [
Eveytime you want to add the accent to the vowel
[ + "vowel"
How to switch back to between language keyboards?
ALT + SHIFT
Mac? I will post it later.
