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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Beginner's Spanish - EspaÃ±ol para principiantes</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/BeginnersSpanishEspanolPara-Principiantes/Forum44.htm</link><description>Spanish for absolute beginners. Ask us any question you may have, no matter how easy you think it is.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CSMOD (Build: 3260.9132)</generator><item><title>Re: Please help me</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vczr/post.htm#20315</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:51:58 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:20315</guid><dc:creator>Pucca</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vczr/post.htm#20315</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments44-20315.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Malta, it&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;La Navidad&amp;quot; :)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Please help me</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvl/post.htm#20309</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:09:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:20309</guid><dc:creator>Malta</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvl/post.htm#20309</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments44-20309.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Muchas gracias Hector9 pero..Â¿Navidad no es masculino. Yo siempre creÃ­a que asÃ­?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Please help me</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvj/post.htm#20307</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:29:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:20307</guid><dc:creator>kiko</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvj/post.htm#20307</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments44-20307.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Hola:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Familia &amp;nbsp;ROJAS&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SeÃ±or&amp;nbsp; Manolo Rojas y SeÃ±ora Elena de Rojas&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Â¡Feliz Navidad y PrÃ³spero AÃ±o Nuevo!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Con mis Mejores Deseos&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stephen L&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Please help me</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvg/post.htm#20304</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:59:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:20304</guid><dc:creator>Hector9</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvg/post.htm#20304</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments44-20304.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/forodeespanol/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Malta&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would add this (red part):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#00"&gt;Os deseo&lt;/font&gt; (I wish you) &lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;&lt;strike&gt;un&lt;/strike&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;una&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#00"&gt;Feliz Navidad y &lt;strike&gt;&lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;un&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strike&gt; prÃ³spero AÃ±o Nuevo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Muchos Saludos,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stephen&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bueno paso rÃ¡pido, pero ahÃ­ te lo corregÃ­.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://forodeespanol.com/emoticons/emotion-5.gif" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Please help me</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvv/post.htm#20302</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:33:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:20302</guid><dc:creator>bart</dc:creator><slash:comments>4</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvv/post.htm#20302</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments44-20302.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="/Themes/forodeespanol/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Isabel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Satimis:&lt;br /&gt;Best regards = Muchos saludos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the rest, it&amp;#39;s ok. It &lt;strike&gt;mustn&amp;#39;t&lt;/strike&gt; doesn&amp;#39;t have to be perfect, &lt;strike&gt;must&lt;/strike&gt; does &amp;nbsp;it? They know you aren&amp;#39;t fluent in Spanish..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merry Christmas to you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I know this is a Spanish forum but... I think we are here to learn from each other...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, I take a chance to make a slight correction&amp;nbsp;and post a clarification note.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;must not&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; means that you deny or forbid to do something&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;e.g. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;You musn&amp;#39;t do it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - You say when you want to tell someone that he or she is not allowed to do it (You or someone/something else does not let to do it.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cheers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Â¡Feliz Navidad a todos!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Please help me</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvd/post.htm#20301</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:07:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:20301</guid><dc:creator>Malta</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvd/post.htm#20301</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments44-20301.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;I would add this (red part):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;Os deseo&lt;/font&gt; (I wish you) &lt;font color="#ff00"&gt;un &lt;/font&gt;&lt;font color="#00"&gt;Feliz Navidad y un prÃ³spero AÃ±o Nuevo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Muchos Saludos,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Stephen&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Please help me</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvb/post.htm#20299</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:56:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:20299</guid><dc:creator>Isabel</dc:creator><slash:comments>6</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvb/post.htm#20299</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments44-20299.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Satimis:&lt;br /&gt;Best regards = Muchos saludos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the rest, it&amp;#39;s ok. It mustn&amp;#39;t be perfect, must it? They know you aren&amp;#39;t fluent in Spanish..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Merry Christmas to you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Please help me</title><link>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvr/post.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:51:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:20298</guid><dc:creator>satimis</dc:creator><slash:comments>7</slash:comments><comments>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/PleaseHelpMe/vcvr/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forodeespanol.com/Archive/comments44-20298.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Hi folks,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I&amp;#39;m an absolute beginner in Spanish.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I&amp;#39;m going to send a X&amp;#39;mas greeting on email to my Spanish friend and his family with following content.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
seÃ±or, seÃ±ora y la familia,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Feliz Navidad y prÃ³spero aÃ±o nuevo!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Best Regards&lt;br /&gt;
Stephen L&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Please help me to translate &amp;quot;Best Regards&amp;quot; to Spanish. Anything to be added to the greeting? Thanks in advance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
satimis&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>