Friday, August 24, 2007

I passed eighth-grade Spanish!

Wow! My knowledge of other languages paid off - I never actually studied Spanish.

You Passed 8th Grade Spanish

Congratulations, you got 8/8 correct!

Labels: , ,

Post's permalink - posted at 1:49 PM  

2 Comments:

At 2:19 PM, August 24, 2007 Blogger Barry Leiba had this to say...

Eight correct here too, but, then, I did study Spanish. They're quite easy, but the ones that would trip up someone who doesn't know from Spanish are (2) and (5), which require you to know the difference between "ser" and "estar", a distinction unique to Spanish, as far as I know. Congratulations on getting those right!

 
At 6:08 PM, August 24, 2007 Blogger The Ridger, FCD had this to say...

I think I guessed on that based on having heard some Spanish sentences using "estar" - the distinction (I just looked it up) seems to be similar to the difference between nominative and instrumental predicates after "to be" in Russian. (Also probably between the current verb est and the archaic sut, both forms of "be"). I remember learning once that Proto-Indoeuropean had two verbs "to be" - looks like Spanish either preserved or resurrected that.

Anyway, like I said, looks like I guessed well!

 

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

     <-- Older Post                     ^ Home                    Newer Post -->