Spanish language Q&A Forum

Hola! ¿Cómo está? Soy estudiante. Me gusta escuchar música y practico basquetbol en mi calle. En mi famila yo tengo los padres y una hermano. (I Am worried Duolingo is messing me up because my Spanish teachers is from Cuba but I think Duolingo teaches Spanish from Spain but i want to learn Spanish from Latin America . Also I always mess up when to put el or la and when to put una or un can you guys help please)

Marta va ___ cine con su novio. 

(Marta is going to the cinema with her boyfriend.) [one, some or all may be correct]: para el, hasta el, del, por el . I would go for „al“ cine porque it is the most natural option! But with the named posibilities and multiple choice para el (direction/end point) hasta el (end point) and por el (route/location) are the correct ones! 

In the tables, you use tuvierais and tuvieseis. In the examples you use tuviérais and tuviéseis. Is this a typo or is there another reason for changing the inflection?

One example drives me crazy (again). When to use pero or sino que. 

Example: Luis y yo no hemos terminado, ....... decidimos darnos un tiempo para pensar en lugar de tener que romper.

My answer = pero, because it is correct and I asked as well native speaker and they would use pero.

Strict rules instead of colloquialism @kwiziq? 

In 99% of all cases pero is correct but not in Kwiziq. 

Would it be possible to rate the answer as correct but add a hint stating that the strict rules would rate differently?

Thanks,

bernd

What is the correct translation for anchor chart in Spanish? 

For example - Students refer to the anchor charts when they need extra support. 

I had the following "En España no siempre dormimos siesta" and I looked it up and AI said the response with siesta at the end is somewhat awkward and less native is that correct?

Can i say :  ¡Qué sorpresa que estés aquí estudiando el español!

I think this lesson could be improved by including some information about using ser + para + the due date. I was thrown off by that in one of the quiz questions because even knowing to use "para" for a due date, using "ser para" to say something like "is due by" is not very clear or obvious.

I wrote many of the answers correctly. Why is my score so low? 

Looks like the plural "skirts" can take both a singular and plural for colors. Is that true of other clothing?