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Originally Posted by laurel

Hola! ¿Cómo estás? φ(ﾟ▽ﾟ*)♪

Estoy bien, pero empiezo a tener hambre porqué no he almorzado ^.^ (I'm good but I'm starting to feel hungry cause I didn't have breakfast)

Originally Posted by laurel

it is almost impossible to explain the charm of his "magic realism" narrative. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (in Japanese, it is translated literally as "百年の孤独") is totally amazing -- while I was reading the book, I felt like a visitor of Macondo.

Yeah same here! It was as though I knew every single character personally. I could see them as if they were real and all! xDDD I was so sad when I finished the book, I wanted more!

Oh yes I forgot to mention Chronicle of a Death Foretold, it is said to be one of his best novels.

"Los Esenciales" isn't that album. The one in which she sings Lorca's poems is called Lorqiana. I don't know if you'll be able to get it in Japan but you can always download it from the Internet.

I don't like Penélope Cruz that much. She looks so fake! Well the real reason is... I'm jealous cause she starred in that film 'All The Pretty Horses' with Matt Damon, and he is one of my favorite actors... xDDD Now seriously, I don't like the way she acts that much nor think she's all that pretty.

Originally Posted by laurel

By the way, we Japanese generally use title after the name (e. g. "Roi taisa" = "Major Roi", "Yukimura dono" = "Sir Yukimura").

Yeah that's one of the first things I learnt. What's the difference between -sama and -domo? And when does a boy get the title -kun and stops being called (something)-chan? Is there an age?


Actually, the only thing Japanese and Spanish have in common in the pronunciation. To every Spanish person who studies Japanese it is easy to get used to the sounds, cause they're pronounced as written (in romanji). It's quite an advantage when learning a new language ^.^

Originally Posted by laurel

I never try to learn Spanish properly; because I'm afraid that there are so many cases in Spanish,

That's true. The problem is we're used to studying English, which is the easiest language, so when we try to get used to another language we find it too difficult cause we think it's going to be as easy as learning English.

So yes, Spanish has many many many past, present and future tenses and if you're not native speaker it is very difficult to learn which one to use in every situation. Funny thing is there isn't really a rule, you just have to know when to use each of them... and the only way of learning it is getting used to the language and listening to people.

Latin is more similar to German though.

As for the grammar rules... well, they're quite simple. It's always like Subject-Verb-complements. Same as English, but we don't use pronouns all the time so you know who does the action cause of the verb, which is different for every person.

Example:

I play the guitar. You've got the "I" there cause it indicates who playes the guitar.

In Spanish you'd say Toco la guitarra. There is no subject but you know it is me (I) cause "toco" can only go with 1rst person singular.

It's not really that difficult.

Originally Posted by laurel

During my stay at Spain, I never watch bullfighting; it is too violent to me. I prefer flamenco dansing. Will you tell me something about flamenco?

Flamenco is only popular in South Spain (Andalucía). I live in Barcelona (Catalonia, North Spain) so I don't know much about it, sorry. In fact, there is some kind of... rivality between Catalonia and the rest of the country, cause of political matters, so we try not to get involved with stuff having something to do with other parts of the country. Which is stupid, I know. xDDD

Spanish pictures... well many famous artists were Spanish, such as Picasso, Dalí, Velázquez, so we got some beautiful museums here. I have never been to the ones in Madrid though *sad*

I have to go, I'll tell you about Spaish history the next day.

Pd- If you've got info about Don Pedro's manga I'll be delighted to read it, but if it means you'll have to spend some time searching for it on the net then don't bother.

See you.

xxx