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Astronomy (Spanish)

estrella = star

sol = sun

luna = moon

constelación = constellation

galaxia = galaxy

satélite = satellite

astrónomo = astronomer

telescopio = telescope

cometa = comet

cinturón de asteroides = asteroid belt

planeta = planet

espacio = space

globo celeste = celestial globe

Vía Láctea = Milky Way

planetario = planetarium

nebuloso = nebula

asteroide = asteroid

nova = nova

año luz = light year

supernova = supernova

agujero negro = black hole

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I'm abt to (virtually) meet an intermediate Spanish tutor from Colombia, I'm nervous, what if she thinks I'm stupid (⁠ᗒ⁠ᗩ⁠ᗕ⁠)

#spanish language #romance languages #learning languages #latin languages #language learning #foreign languages #languages #language

"Enguany" (this year)

Did you know that only a few minority languages have been the only Romance languages that have preserved a word to mean "this year"?

The same way that "today" means this day, "yesterday" means the day before, or "tomorrow" means the next day, in Catalan on top of these ones (avui, ahir, and demà, respectively) we have enguany. In Occitan it's called ongan, in Sicilian aguannu and in some dialects of Neapolitan use aguanno.

Centuries ago, the word also existed in Italian (uguanno), Leonese (aguañu) and in Spanish it's still on the dictionaries (hogaño) but it's an ancient word not used anymore.

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French is the weird cousin of the Romance language family.

#french #why are you like this #french language #french langblr #latin languages #romance languages #i'm just saying

speaking a latin language is pretty much the equivalent of understanding most of the others but not being able to speak them.

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How romance languages say tomato

Spain: Ok amigos. How do you say Tomate? Francia?

France: Tomate

Spain: Bueno. Good enough. Even if you're not pronouncing the last e.

France: I do!

Portugal: I also pronounce it Tomate.

Spain: *sighs*

Romania: I...

Spain: Don't!

Portugual: Let him speak, god.

Spain: ...

Romania: Tomată ?

Spain: That's better than I thought. Good work Romania.

Romania: =)

France: Italie? Why haven't you say anything?

Italy: ...

Spain: I bet my sweet little Italia pronounce it correctly. Isn't it right?

Italy: Well...I say pomodoro

Spain: ...

France: ...

Portugal: ...

Romania: *tries so hard not to laugh*

Spain: ¿POR QUÉ me engañas tanto? ;-;

#romance language family #this is one of my favourite thing #usually italy is the origin of latin language words #latin languages #why do i write spanish i dont even speak Spanish

My interpretations of romance languages, as a Spanish speaker:

French - A drunk person with a lisp and a mouth full of food trying to speak Spanish but it's definitely not Spanish Latin - I can understand like 80% of this language Italian - An English speaker trying way too hard to speak Spanish and just not getting it Portuguese - A drunk person trying to speak Spanish but having bad pronunciation Romanian - I don't know what you're saying at all but I really feel like I should and this upsets me Spanish - Spanish