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Berno

#5369 Wed, 01 Mar 06 02:48 PM

If I want to tell someone that I will be coming to Barcelona in August, are the following sentences correct?

Voy a venir a Barcelona en agosto.
Estaré viniendo a Barcelona en agosto.

If they are both correct, is one better than the other?

Berno

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Auser

#5381 Wed, 01 Mar 06 08:11 PM

Both of them are incorrect.

1. Voy a ir a Barcelona en agosto.

2. Estaré llendo a Barcelona en agosto.

They are a matter of expression.

Auser

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Berno

#5382 Wed, 01 Mar 06 08:25 PM

Gracias por su ayuda :)

Berno

Sanz

#5389 Thu, 02 Mar 06 02:30 AM

Hola, una observación... yendo

Auser

Both of them are incorrect.

1. Voy a ir a Barcelona en agosto.

2. Estaré yendo a Barcelona en agosto.

They are a matter of expression.

Sanz

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Berno

#5395 Thu, 02 Mar 06 09:10 AM

Sanz,

Gracias también. :)

Berno

Estersita

#6392 Thu, 30 Mar 06 08:20 AM

Auser

Both of them are incorrect.

1. Voy a ir a Barcelona en agosto.

2. Estaré yendo a Barcelona en agosto.

They are a matter of expression.

I may be wrong, but I think the second one sounds very strange. As if he had to go many times to Barcelona during August.

I think to talk about plans it is better to use IR A + verbo en infinitivo.

Is it only an example or are you really going to Barcelona?

Estersita

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Berno

#6393 Thu, 30 Mar 06 08:31 AM

Estersita

Is it only an example or are you really going to Barcelona?

It is just an example but I would like to go to Barcelona this year.

I have been a few times before and I want to go again. It is a lovely city.

Berno

Ignatius

#7442 Wed, 17 May 06 12:08 AM

Hola,

I'm only new to the language, and anything I say is very suspect, but marking this as incorrect has puzzled me

Berno asked for "I will be coming to barcelona in August"

my understanding is that

"Voy a venir a Barcelona en agosto" translates to "I'm going to come to Barcelona in August" whereas

"Voy a ir a Barcelona en agosto" translates to "I'm going to go to Barcelona in August"

Are you saying that a spanish speaker would not construct a sentence like this, or is there some other grammatical problem with it?

(In english we might use the sentence construction above if speaking to somebody already in Barcelona)

Alternatively, could I use "Voy a estar en Barcelona en agosto" - I'm going to be in Barcelona in August

Finally, no post so far has capitalised agosto - are months not capitalised in spanish? In english we are always supposed to capitalise the names of months - though (even as a native) I normally forget :(

Muchos Gracias

Ignatius

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Hola! I'd be happy for you to correct me. Thanks

Berno

#7444 Wed, 17 May 06 12:17 AM

Ignatius

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Finally, no post so far has capitalised agosto - are months not capitalised in spanish? In english we are always supposed to capitalise the names of months - though (even as a native) I normally forget :(

Muchos Gracias

Hello Ignatius,

I can answer that last one.

Months are not capitalised in Spanish. Neither are the days of the week. :)

Hope this helps.

Berno

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