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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Thanks to Duolingo I can enjoy this meme! Muchas gracias!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Estoy es muy triste, porque perdí mi racha de 473 días.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yes, thanks to Duo, this is exactly my level of Spanish :p

¡Felicidades a nosotros!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Me gustan los memes españoles.

Also just so you guys know meme is pronounced may-may in spanish. Makes me laugh every time I hear one of my friends say it in spanish.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I've never thought about that, but that's hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also just so you guys know meme is pronounced may-may in spanish.

It's more like meh-meh, our vowels don't have additional sounds.

For more accurate pronunciation you can think of Spanish vowels as if they had an 'h' at the end.

Ah

Eh

Ih

Oh

Uh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Adding the H to some of these letters wouldn't give the right sound for native english speakers. I would transcribe these vowels using american english like so:

A = ah : rhymes with ma

E = ay : rhymes with hey

I = ee : rhymes with tree

O = oh : rhymes with blow

U = oo : rhymes with shoe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It looks like there might be a slight misunderstanding, "e" is pronounced as the e in "metal", "test", "wrench".

We do not use a different sound for it, and it does not rhyme with hey at all :D

Adding the H to some of these letters wouldn't give the right sound for native english speakers

I think the only one that could be tricky would be the "uh" since it could be confused with the interjection "uhhh", but as you mentioned, it is indeed pronounced as "oo".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps it's just dialectal differences. I live in colombia and what I hear daily is an e sound that rhymes with hey, hay, or may.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

First time I hear about that! Haven't talked with my Colombian friends in a while, but regions are indeed getting stronger differences every day although it is mostly with the marked s, c, g, h, j, r sounds, rarely with the vowels.

Anecdotally, I've never met a spanish speaker from any country (Colombia included) that pronounces the "e" as "ey" though, so it's interesting to think how that can happen. For context, tv and people in general use that pronunciation to mock (in a satirical way) English speakers trying to speak Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also just so you guys know meme is pronounced may-may in spanish

Why do y'all anglophones enjoy making language more complicated than it needs to be? Does it bring you joy to provoke suffering to the world?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nah, it just distracts from the self-loathing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nooooooooo!

It's okay... I can take it... How do they pronounce gif?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

They pronounce it like: "gif"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I heard a dude pronounce meme 'mee mee' once like 10 years ago, and that created a core memory for me for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see my pal, Jon. Olé! Mother’s realistic Toyota

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Norwegian:

"Det er ikke mye, men jeg liker en kuk i ræva"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Loistavaa! Puuttuu vain Hankkija-lippis

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Now you're bringing Japanese trucks into this conversation?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hey something is wrong with my Lemmy. Seems to be stuck in Spanish or something. How do change it back?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Li siento. No hablo Inglés.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

One of my favorite stories to tell related to this was when I went to a stadium to do some work and needed a bathroom.

I noticed some people cleaning that looked Spanish, but I don't like to assume people don't know English so I started with "Do you happen to know where the bathroom is?" So they replied "lo siento, no hablo Ingles." Having taken Spanish in highschool I remember like 8 words and switched "donde estas el bano?" And they replied "no Ingles, no Ingles."

...but... I'm speaking your language now... Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Spectat sicut Anglis. Possum legere sine ullo negotio.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Thx Spanish classes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like that my native language is so present in the Fediverse 🥲

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Same here. I've been trying to immerse myself in Spanish. My grandparents were from there and they were always disappointed that none of their grandchildren became fluent.

Now I go back once per year as a sort of pilgrimage. Hopefully I'll be able to hold conversations soon.

It's difficult, but I never want to be that American who refuses to make even a token effort to learn the basics of the language when they're travelling abroad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I feel so cultured.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

thanks to knowing portuguese i can understand this spanish meme

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks to watching La Casa de Papel with original sound and English subtitles, I can understand this meme.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't speak portuguese but I understood it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

I don't speak spanish too, it might be spanish

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I can't read swedish, what does your comment say?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Мислиш ја знам бе брат 😂.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Haha yes, me too comrade

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I understood because I’m portuguese. Idk about the rest

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It ain't much, but its honest work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I speak Portuguese, so at least this ain't that hard to understand, nice meme 👍

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