[The other side] English

Hi, i find this thread for chance.
I think is a good idea for practice my poor english, becouse i don't have the oportunity to write on another place.
I never take a class of english and i learn with Movies and
Internet, really is not hard learn english today, only need to feel like learn.
I write many times here.

See you!!

Just one thing. I want to translate the phrase "Tengo una casa en el campo". What's the best option?:

1. I've got a home at(¿in?) the countryfield

2. I've got a house at(¿in?) the countryfield

Thanks!!

Aguchan escribió:Just one thing. I want to translate the phrase "Tengo una casa en el campo". What's the best option?:

1. I've got a home at(¿in?) the countryfield

2. I've got a house at(¿in?) the countryfield

Thanks!!

Home means where you live, it's more than an object. If it's your home, it should be like "My home is in the countryfield". If it's only a house that you have, you should say "I've got a house in the cuntryfield".

I hope this helps (I think that there aren't mistakes but... )

resakosix escribió:

Aguchan escribió:Just one thing. I want to translate the phrase "Tengo una casa en el campo". What's the best option?:

1. I've got a home at(¿in?) the countryfield

2. I've got a house at(¿in?) the countryfield

Thanks!!

Home means where you live, it's more than an object. If it's your home, it should be like "My home is in the countryfield". If it's only a house that you have, you should say "I've got a house in the cuntryfield".

I hope this helps (I think that there aren't mistakes but... )

I agree. I think "home" is not a physical place, but a concept (it feels like home).

I've friends in London and one learn spanish in school for 5 years and the only one who can remember is " Hola Don Pepito-Hola Don José bla bla " but in english accent ahaha

opuk escribió:

resakosix escribió:

Aguchan escribió:Just one thing. I want to translate the phrase "Tengo una casa en el campo". What's the best option?:

1. I've got a home at(¿in?) the countryfield

2. I've got a house at(¿in?) the countryfield

Thanks!!

Home means where you live, it's more than an object. If it's your home, it should be like "My home is in the countryfield". If it's only a house that you have, you should say "I've got a house in the cuntryfield".

I hope this helps (I think that there aren't mistakes but... )

I agree. I think "home" is not a physical place, but a concept (it feels like home).

Ok thanks a lot!!

just one question.
what the hell is a countryfield ?

Aevum escribió:just one question.
what the hell is a countryfield ?

I guess, the right word may be "Cottage".

Gyzmo escribió:

Aevum escribió:just one question.
what the hell is a countryfield ?

I guess, the right word may be "Cottage".

I've allways used country or countryside for that, cause I think "cotage" is the house, not a geographic type.

hi all you guys!

This is a great idea to improve our english. In a few weeks I going to do an english exam (IELTS). I need a good score (6.5) and I don´t know if I can get it. All my life I have been learning english by myself watching movies and reading on internet but I think that´s not enough to get a 6.5 mark.
Any of you can recomend me some books or good staff to improve the IELTS score? also, which webs on internet are good to learn english?

I get bored very early when I take a book to learn english. I think the best way to learn english is move to a english spoken country but at the moment I´m poor and I don´t have money .

bye and thank you in advance

(please, correct me if I´ve made any mistake)

You can make a free practice of the IETLS to test yourself. There are some of free sample exams on the net. Do one of those exams and you will know if you have gotten the proper level to pass it.

http://www.canadavisa.com/ielts/free-pr ... tests.html

Aevum escribió:just one question.
what the hell is a countryfield ?

Hahaha, I meant countryside, not countryfield...

UP !!

Hi, I'm Dani, I've been studying English for about ten years. I want to live in NOLA (New Orleans), so I would like to know people who lived or is living in the United States to tell me how is to live in the USA. The reason why I want to go there is because I like american football, and my favourite team plays in New Orleans, aside it's a very beautiful city.

See you.

Hi, I'm new in this thread, and I'd like to ask you how did you learn English, I mean, which method did you use and which level you have attained over the years. I think it'd be useful for people who want to improve their english (further or to get certain level) and to share our experiences with Shakespeare's mother tongue.

I'll begin, even though it's a little bit shameful I could say that I learned thru video games, the Internet, and because of my hobby, informatics (you need English to program and to access to many information). I think that you learn 100 times faster if you like it than if it is a forced study.

I don't know if this happened to you but when I was a kid every game came (no pun intended, you sick fucks ) in English ¿do you know what it's like to be playing mario 64 without understanding anything (I even chose French because some word had a resemblance with the Spanish/Catalan ones )? and now that I know English everything comes translated.

Something that happened to me that surprised me a bit was when I travelled to New York for holidays, I thought that it'd be a great chance to improve my English, but I ended up speaking Spanish (due to the sheer number of hispanoamericans (one in every place)), I don't know if danihornet_whodat will find the same situation in New Orleans.

Now I have (I think) a somewhat advanced level, I can watch TV series in VO without subtitles and mantain a conversation.

Regards to everyone.

PD: Feel free to point out any mistake you find (furthermore, I encourage you to do so, after all this is meant to make us improve)

jarna3 escribió:Hi, I'm new in this thread, and I'd like to ask you how did you learn English, I mean, which method did you use and which level you have attained over the years. I think it'd be useful for people who want to improve their english (further or to get certain level) and to share our experiences with Shakespeare's mother tongue [language].

I'll begin, even though it's a little bit shameful I could say that I learned thru video games, the Internet, and because of my hobby, informatics (you need English to program and to access to many information). I think that you learn 100 times faster if you like it than if it is a forced study.

I don't know if this happened to you but when I was a kid every game came (no pun intended, you sick fucks ) in English ¿do you know what it's like to be playing mario 64 without understanding anything (I even chose French because some word had a resemblance with the Spanish/Catalan ones )? and now that I know English everithing [everything] comes translated.

Something that happened to me that surprised me a bit was when I travelled to New York for holidays, I thought that it'd be a great chance to improve my English, but I ended up speaking Spanish (due to the sheer number of hispanoamericans (one in every place)), I don't know if danihornet_whodat will find the same situation in New Orleans.

Now I have an (I think) a somewhat advanced level, I can watch TV series in VO without subtitles and mantain a conversation.

Regards to everyone.

PD: Feel free to point out any mistake you find (furthermore, I encourage you to do so, after all this is meant to make us improve)

There are five languages in New Orleans: English, French, Spanish, Cajun French (a language from southern Louisiana) and vietnamese. Spanish is the second language, but I think all the people speak English.

danihornet_whodat escribió:

jarna3 escribió:Hi, I'm new in this thread, and I'd like to ask you how did you learn English, I mean, which method did you use and which level you have attained over the years. I think it'd be useful for people who want to improve their english (further or to get certain level) and to share our experiences with Shakespeare's mother tongue [language].

I'll begin, even though it's a little bit shameful I could say that I learned thru video games, the Internet, and because of my hobby, informatics (you need English to program and to access to many information). I think that you learn 100 times faster if you like it than if it is a forced study.

I don't know if this happened to you but when I was a kid every game came (no pun intended, you sick fucks ) in English ¿do you know what it's like to be playing mario 64 without understanding anything (I even chose French because some word had a resemblance with the Spanish/Catalan ones )? and now that I know English everithing [everything] comes translated.

Something that happened to me that surprised me a bit was when I travelled to New York for holidays, I thought that it'd be a great chance to improve my English, but I ended up speaking Spanish (due to the sheer number of hispanoamericans (one in every place)), I don't know if danihornet_whodat will find the same situation in New Orleans.

Now I have an (I think) a somewhat advanced level, I can watch TV series in VO without subtitles and mantain a conversation.

Regards to everyone.

PD: Feel free to point out any mistake you find (furthermore, I encourage you to do so, after all this is meant to make us improve)

There are five languages in New Orleans: English, French, Spanish, Cajun French (a language from southern Louisiana) and vietnamese. Spanish is the second language, but I think all the people speak English.

I was saying that because you said that you'd studied English for ten years and you'd like to live in new orlans and I wanted to point out that USA has many Hispanics(at least in NY (everyone speaks english there)) but I don't know if this happens as well in New Orleans (so you wouldn't need much English to "survive")

Talking about mistakes, when you speak about "lengua materna" it's mother tongue and the mistake in everything is just a typo .

Regards & pleased to speak (well, write) with you.

A friend of mine went to New Orleans last year, and he told me that there were not so many hispanics in there.

baronluigi escribió:A friend of mine went to New Orleans last year, and he told me that there were not so many hispanics in there.

I'll tell you an anecdote about when I went to NY.

I went with my uncle because he has been there about 20 times (and he barely speaks English (with this I tell you all about hispanics in NY)) and well, as you might know, the sockets are not the same than in Spain so I had to buy an adaptor, I went to a hardware store and a girl attended me, I explained carefully in English everything: I need a plug adaptor from spanish to american, the spanish one has two rounded pins, bla, bla, bla, etc..., and when I'm going to pay it my uncle said to me: Quant serà? (We are catalans and it means ¿how much will it be?). So it seams that the girl (hispanic) understands this (from Quant serà? to ¿Cuanto será? there isn't a big distance) and tells me: Son tres coma cincuenta dólares (I don't recall exactly the price).

When I realized that she spoke Spanish I was like ¿Why the fuck everyone in every store speak Spanish? (everywhere I went there where someone who spoke it).

As a result I almost didn't need to use English (though I tried to speak it whenever I could) because of my uncle, so we could have a three-way conversation when we were attended by a hispanic.

As I said this is at least in New york, but it's said that USA will become the biggest Spanish speaking country in few years (now there are 40-45 million speakers), I don't know if it will be like this but atleast it's true that Spanish it's a great asset to work in the USA. Knowing Spanish and English you can get almost to everywhere. It'd be fine to know French or German (I'm studing by myself the latter because I like it very much (a very powerful language (more than french (no offense intended))).

Regards to everyone.

PD: It's a pity that such a thread is so inactive, we should post in it more often, a kinda miscelanea (and not only things about the English language or how to learn it, but in English (because practice on everyday matters helps to improve te command of a language).

The United States of America have about 25-45 million of people who speak or understand spanish. They have their own Spanish tv channels and nowadays most of the current american tv shows like CASTLE have spanish subtitles available.

In fact, thanks to that more and more NTSC videogames have spanish as an option to select.

Hi, in january i'll go to Denmark for a week.
Can you explain me some about this country?

kaopower escribió:Hi, in january i'll go to Denmark for a week.
Can you explain me some about this country?

Do not act so rude when you are in bars. They love to drink so much and to have parties, but they do it at home, not in the streets.

kaopower escribió:Hi, in january i'll go to Denmark for a week.
Can you explain me some about this country?

I went to Copenhaguen the last summer. It' s a beautiful country, and its people are very kind and polite. If you are in problems (for example, if you're lost), ask to someone (everybody knows speak English). In several times, we was looking a map and the people approached to offer help.

Denmark is an expensive country, but less than Norwegian or Sweden. However, you must to go with abundat money, because they have a style life bigger than Spain.

If you're going to be in Copenhague, enjoy this city. It isn't very big, is quiet, and it has very charming.

Sorry for my English. It's very basic, but if you have further questions, i'll try to answer any doubt (although i'm going to Marrakech tomorrow).

Regards!

I like the tremendous activity of this thread (it's on the 20th page )

¿Why don't we post about some ramdom topic?

I'll begin: ¿What do you think about Sinde's internet law?



Now seriously, which country would you like to travel to?

I'd like to go to Japan (yes, I know, it's very cliché) but I like the contrast they have between technological cities and traditions.

Regards.

PD: BTW, weren't there so many people in eol that watched series in VO? With a theoretical big base of posters is a pity this gets gets so sunk.

PD2: I also know that the topic is not very original, but it's better this than nothing, I encourage you to bring up any topic you want to discuss

Well, I think I would really like to go to China, but I would need a lot of time to do as much as I want to, I guess it's more of a dream trip (I love the typicall Pilot Guides programs where they go miles and miles down rivers and visit little towns and villages as well as the big cities ><). I would also love to live in Paris for some time (I don't know how long exactly, but I'm going to try to go there as an Erasmus student).


As another topic, I think it would be interesting to hear about people's experiences:
1.- In English speaking countries, especially if they've lived in one for some time.
2.- In any of the countries we all mention on this thread.


Answering to my first question, I have to say I'm half Irish, so I don't really see many things in Ireland that are so different from the way I grew up, but that's probably because my mother got part of the Irish lifestyle into me .

As for the second question, I'm sorry jarna3, I've never been to Japan, but I hope somebody who's been there reads this and is able to tell us his/her experience.

Cheers!

PS: I think you're right, so many people watching O.V. series and so few in this thread ...

red, blue, yellow, green

Hombre grifo escribió:Well, I think I would really like to go to China, but I would need a lot of time to do as much as I want to, I guess it's more of a dream trip (I love the typicall Pilot Guides programs where they go miles and miles down rivers and visit little towns and villages as well as the big cities ><). I would also love to live in Paris for some time (I don't know how long exactly, but I'm going to try to go there as an Erasmus student).


As another topic, I think it would be interesting to hear about people's experiences:
1.- In English speaking countries, especially if they've lived in one for some time.
2.- In any of the countries we all mention on this thread.


Answering to my first question, I have to say I'm half Irish, so I don't really see many things in Ireland that are so different from the way I grew up, but that's probably because my mother got part of the Irish lifestyle into me .

As for the second question, I'm sorry jarna3, I've never been to Japan, but I hope somebody who's been there reads this and is able to tell us his/her experience.

Cheers!

PS: I think you're right, so many people watching O.V. series and so few in this thread ...

Well, we'll try to resurrect this thread again .

Sorry I didn't post, it was because when I saw that the thread had new posts I only saw PaniniDS' useless post and I thought that no one was interested in the thread so I let it sunk.

Going back to topic, I'd also like to go to China to see the little towns, the big cities and the environment and how the rapid growth of China has affected them, because few years ago it was a rural country but now it's the 2nd most powerful country in the world (more so than what it happened with the USSR), but as you have said, traveling there and having a complete experience (not just two or three cities) would require massive amounts of time (and money) but I think it'd be worth it.

About Paris, my uncle lived there for 4 years and he loves it and I also would like to go there (although I still prefer New York ) so I hope you get to go with the Erasmus an post you impressions here.

It'd be great if people posted their experiences, because (IMHO) knowing by first hand how is living in a different country widens your own knowledge.

Btw, as you have said you were half Irish, do you speak English as your mother tongue?

Regards.

jarna3 escribió:

Hombre grifo escribió:Well, I think I would really like to go to China, but I would need a lot of time to do as much as I want to, I guess it's more of a dream trip (I love the typicall Pilot Guides programs where they go miles and miles down rivers and visit little towns and villages as well as the big cities ><). I would also love to live in Paris for some time (I don't know how long exactly, but I'm going to try to go there as an Erasmus student).


As another topic, I think it would be interesting to hear about people's experiences:
1.- In English speaking countries, especially if they've lived in one for some time.
2.- In any of the countries we all mention on this thread.


Answering to my first question, I have to say I'm half Irish, so I don't really see many things in Ireland that are so different from the way I grew up, but that's probably because my mother got part of the Irish lifestyle into me .

As for the second question, I'm sorry jarna3, I've never been to Japan, but I hope somebody who's been there reads this and is able to tell us his/her experience.

Cheers!

PS: I think you're right, so many people watching O.V. series and so few in this thread ...

Well, we'll try to resurrect this thread again .

Sorry I didn't post, it was because when I saw that the thread had new posts I only saw PaniniDS' useless post and I thought that no one was interested in the thread so I let it sunk.

Going back to topic, I'd also like to go to China to see the little towns, the big cities and the environment and how the rapid growth of China has affected them, because few years ago it was a rural country but now it's the 2nd most powerful country in the world (more so than what it happened with the USSR), but as you have said, traveling there and having a complete experience (not just two or three cities) would require massive amounts of time (and money) but I think it'd be worth it.

About Paris, my uncle lived there for 4 years and he loves it and I also would like to go there (although I still prefer New York ) so I hope you get to go with the Erasmus an post you impressions here.

It'd be great if people posted their experiences, because (IMHO) knowing by first hand how is living in a different country widens your own knowledge.

Btw, as you have said you were half Irish, do you speak English as your mother tongue?

Regards.

I'll definitely tell you about my Erasmus in Paris if I ever get it, but I think I'll probably go at some point even if I don't get it (I'd really like to go) xDD!

As for the other question, yes, I do speak English as my mother tongue, but I've lived most of my life in Spain, so I'm better at Spanish than I am at English and I wouldn't be too surprised if you saw something wrong in any of my posts ...

especialy since in english its not said or written as mother tongue but native tongue or native languge.

Actually, I was wondering about that a few days ago and:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/mother-tongue

Hi, in my school we were taught in England English and we were always told that the language you speak natively was your mother tongue, not your mother language. Aside of this, as the level taught was poor, I learned (IMHO, I have reached a not-so-bad level) by myself (through series, the Internet , informatics...) and I'm more used to American English (and my pronunciation and words are closer to this dialect).

Well, what happened in my school is that there were three levels, the highest, a normal level and a level almost for retards , and I was in the retard level but I could be in the normal-highest (they offered me to change many times), but in the other levels you had to do strict homework, study, etc, but in the lowest level the homework was checked by doing the exercises in class (and I never did them but when they asked me to tell the answers aloud I just did them on-the-fly ), we watched films (the last samurai, The Untouchables... (and we were the only class who watched films)), and I had never to study for exams (and always getting 90+ (80% of the class failed at exams, so I was almost a God among them ) and being the higher score in class )(btw, I miss that class ), so I learned by myself and I think that that is the best way to learn something (if you put interest).

¿Why have I written this rant? I don't even know, I guess that speaking about the English taught in class I have recalled this, so don't blame me (it'd be good if people wrote how they learned (to give more topics)).

Regards and if you want we can discuss any topic.

PD: F*ck iPod's spelling checker (I have written this from my computer but sometimes I write from the iPod) because you write something and sometimes it gets changed without you even noticing.

This thread is so dead that I can double-post. BUAHAHAHAHAHA .

Well I will try to re-up this with a forbidden topic, a topic so obscure that every thread about it gets closed, a topic so banned that even the mods get scared, so ¿which topic is it?

¿Hardcore sadomasochistic sex, drugs, murders, worship to the devil, kidnappings? NO. It's even worse,

It's CINEMA AND TV!!! (if the thread gets closed because of this topic I don't think many people would mourn the loss )

So, which series are you currently watching and which would you recommend me?

I'm watching Dexter (waiting for the 6 season) and Damages (Currently watching the 3 season, and btw it's the most f*cking complicated series of all time (at least IMHO)).

Greetings.

jarna3 escribió:This thread is so dead that I can double-post. BUAHAHAHAHAHA .

Well I will try to re-up this with a forbidden topic, a topic so obscure that every thread about it gets closed, a topic so banned that even the mods get scared, so ¿which topic is it?

¿Hardcore sadomasochistic sex, drugs, murders, worship to the devil, kidnappings? NO. It's even worse,

It's CINEMA AND TV!!! (if the thread gets closed because of this topic I don't think many people would mourn the loss )

So, which series are you currently watching and which would you recommend me?

I'm watching Dexter (waiting for the 6 season) and Damages (Currently watching the 3 season, and btw it's the most f*cking complicated series of all time (at least IMHO)).

Greetings.

Well, I'm not currently hooked on any TV series, after Lost it's being difficult to me to find something interesting. At the moment I'm just watching The Walking Dead (one episode from time to time) and The Event, that continues this week after a 2 or 3 months stop.

So my recommendation is: watch Lost if you haven't done it yet. In my opinion, the best TV show EVER.

Gooodddd Morning!

How are you today guys?

opuk escribió:

jarna3 escribió:This thread is so dead that I can double-post. BUAHAHAHAHAHA .

Well I will try to re-up this with a forbidden topic, a topic so obscure that every thread about it gets closed, a topic so banned that even the mods get scared, so ¿which topic is it?

¿Hardcore sadomasochistic sex, drugs, murders, worship to the devil, kidnappings? NO. It's even worse,

It's CINEMA AND TV!!! (if the thread gets closed because of this topic I don't think many people would mourn the loss )

So, which series are you currently watching and which would you recommend me?

I'm watching Dexter (waiting for the 6 season) and Damages (Currently watching the 3 season, and btw it's the most f*cking complicated series of all time (at least IMHO)).

Greetings.

Well, I'm not currently hooked on any TV series, after Lost it's being difficult to me to find something interesting. At the moment I'm just watching The Walking Dead (one episode from time to time) and The Event, that continues this week after a 2 or 3 months stop.

So my recommendation is: watch Lost if you haven't done it yet. In my opinion, the best TV show EVER.

Thanks, but the problem is that I don't like Sci-Fi, I prefer realistic series, and even tough I had heard of Lost, I tried to watch it but I didn't like it.

Aside from this, thanks for the recommendation.

Regards.

I've been watching every chapter of Friends from the start, but I'm already halfway through (season 5 almost finished)! I'm also pretty hooked on Misfits, but there won't be any of that until November T_T... My brother loves How I Met Your Mother, and got the 1st season as a present, so I've been watching that aswell...

What I've been trying to do is not watch any series which hasn't ended yet, because waiting every week for a new chapter or waiting for almost a year (Misfits T_T) can sometimes be torture u.U... But I think sometimes it's inevitable, some series just have something about them that makes you want to watch more even though you know you shouldn't ...

So, any recommendations? As a half-Irish person, I feel myself obliged to recommend Father Ted, a comedy about three... special... priests who live in an Irish island living their life. I have also seen Malcom in the Middle (very good), which I recommend, and, obviously, Friends, Misfits and HIMYM ...

See ya...!

Big Bang Theory is a must-see, it´s about some theoretical physicists nerds who try to get laid with women with absurd results

Talking about TV series without even saying a word about The Sopranos is blasphemy.

Tronak escribió:Big Bang Theory is a must-see, it´s about some theoretical physicists nerds who try to get laid with women with absurd results

I'm watching it right now... I'm on seventh chapter of the first season. Sheldon Cooper is one of the best characters I've ever seen!!!!

-Sheldon Cooper is using his computer in the stairs
-Audience starts laughing quietly
-Penny asks him "what are you doing?"
-Sheldon says he is playing Super Mario 64 in an emulator
-Audience laughs now hysterically.

Yes, it's a good show, but the jokes aren't always funny at all.

Jersey shore in MTV ladies and gentlemen, I can't stop laughing with the adventures of those guidos in their quest to get laid. And there is a fight at least on each episode (sometimes girls fights), and lots of weird stuff happening.

Hi all, I have seen that the darkness has made you post (the topic).

Going back to the topic, I have heard good about Big Bang Theory and I want to watch it (I like nerd jokes ) but I haven't had the time (but I'll try to find it ).

About misfits I've read the synopsis (at Wikipedia) and being about supernatural powers I think I wouldn't like it but maybe I'll give it a shot.

@wailander:

¿Does anybody here watch Dexter?

Regards.

You can get to watch TBBT on TNT/Adultswim channel(usually on air at 3:00 PM, I think) I used to watch it in there 5 months ago...
I didn't like Dexter, way too macabre...
To tell you the truth, I don't watch TV at all I'm more into the Internet...
Why, hello, i would like to post here regularly since i'm a student too and, as it was said earlier, the best way to improve a language is to put it on practice

Resurrecting the thread ...again .

Hi, first of all I'd like to ask you a favour, do not post this fast because you're gonna saturate EOL , obviously I'm just kidding .

Well, just to bring up a new topic, what kind of music do you like (a little less cliché than talking about the weather in an elevator)?

I like almost any genre but country a flamenco (I'm not biased for any political reason, I just don't like it)

But if there's a style that I like that is metal (mostly power-metal) and I band that I particularly like is Rammstein (I know, it's Tanz-Metal), so if you like the style I think you should give it a shot.

That doesn't mean that I don't like other styles other than that, so I can have a disc by Seal (I like his disc Soul) next to a metal disc in my mp4 (I haven't been paid to do product placement (it's an Ipod)).

So, if you want, we can discuss about music or whatever you like.

Regards to you all.

Reply please

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To study english also i have bought many books in amazon, this books are for kids but i think that it is good for improving my english.

one question.. i can change many for a lot of? what is the different?

bye

Perkum escribió:Reply please

http://www.elotrolado.net/hilo_peliculas-documentales-en-ingles_1594477

To study English I have also bought many books in (I'd use at) amazon, this books are for kids but I think that they are good to improve my English.

one question.. Can I change many for a lot of? what is the difference?

bye

Hi, I have taken the freedom to correct some mistakes (you said you wanted to improve, and the best way is to learn from mistakes )

I can't help you with your first question (I also wanted to find them but I only found English VO-Spanish subtitles) so sorry.

Regarding to your question about many and a lot of, the answer is that you can change it but only in certain places.

Many is used as Spanish "muchos" when you are talking about something you can count (cars, coins, etc (you can try it by counting them (one car, two cars, three cars, etc.))), a sentence would be: Do you have many coins? ("¿Tienes muchas monedas?")

Much is used like many but with things you can't count (money, milk, etc (in the sense that you can say (one money, two moneys, ect (the same way it would make no sense in Spanish (un dinero, dos dineros, etc). A sentence: Do you have much money? ("¿Tienes mucho dinero?")

A lot of is interchangeable with many and much in a positive sentence:

I have much money ("Tengo mucho dinero")

I have many cars ("Tengo muchos coches")

I have a lot of money/cars ("Tengo mucho/s dinero/coches")

In a question asking if you have much of anything, you can change it:

Do you have many cars? ("¿Tienes muchos coches?")

Do you have much money? ("¿Tienes mucho dinero?")

Do you have a lot of cars/money? ("¿Tienes muchos coches/dinero?")

In a question asking the amount of anything you have, you can't change it:

How much money do you have? ("¿Cuánto dinero tienes?")

How many cars do you have? ("¿Cuántos coches tienes?")

How a lot of cars/money you have. (is wrong) (la frase no tiene sentido, traducida literal: "¿Cuántos una gran cantidad de dinero/coches tienes?")

Hope this helps,

Regards.

thanks i did not waiting an answer so good

(my sentence is correct? i don't know if the form of "wait" is correct..)

Perkum escribió:thanks i did not wait a so good answer

(my sentence is correct? i don't know if the form of "wait" is correct..)

Fixed.

Alpo escribió:

Perkum escribió:thanks i did not wait a so good answer

(my sentence is correct? i don't know if the form of "wait" is correct..)

Fixed.

It wouldnt be better:

"Thanks, I did not expect such a good answer"

Someone could tell me if my sentece is correct?

Can I say who is making mistakes??

@ baronluigi

It's correct (at least I think so)

@ Perkum

I would suggest something regarding the tenses of the verbs.

Many verb tenses have a correspondent form in Spanish, I mean, if you have problems knowing the correct tense of a verb try the same sentence in Spanish, for example:

You buy a car/ You bought a car/ You have bought a car/ He had bought a car

Tú compras un coche/ Tú compraste un coche/ Tú has comprado un coche/ El había comprado un coche

As you can see in both languages the verbs match in their tenses.

This is not an exact rule but I think it might be useful.

In your sentence: thanks i did not waiting an answer so good your main mistake was the waiting, but let's go step by step.

As I said, translating into Spanish may prove useful: "Gracias, no me esperaba una respuesta tan buena". As you have written correctly the negative in English uses do not and the past uses did not, but the did already shows us that the sentence is in the past tense so the verb DOES NOT CHANGE. If the sentence were: "Gracias, me esperaba una respuesta..." the verb would be in the past tense: "Thanks, I expected (este verbo expresa mejor la idea de esperar en esta frase(wait se usa por las esperas en el tiempo, cuando es esperar algo (por ejemplo en la frase "no me esperaba su reacción), es expect)) an answer..."

The "an answer so good" is not a mistake, but it sounds odd (extraño) and it would feel more natural "such a good answer"

So fixing the sentence from more important to less:

thanks I did not waiting an answer so good (ésta es incorrecta) --> thanks I did not wait an answer so good (ésta es correcta pero muy extraña) --> thanks I did not expect an answer so good (expect es mejor en este caso) --> thanks, I did not expect such a good answer (perfecto ).

Un saludo.

PD: Para saber cuando puedes substituir el much/many por a lot of traduce este último por "una gran cantidad de"

Tengo una gran cantidad de dinero. OK (puedes substituirlo en su equivalente inglés.)
¿Tienes una gran cantidad de dinero? OK (puedes substituirlo en su equivalente inglés.)
¿Cuánta una gran cantidad de dinero tienes? NO (no puedes substituirlo en su equivalente inglés.)