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By: Actualidades: Blogueando Para Aprender » Blog Archive » VR y Cynthia - Apologize (versión bachata urbana)

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:00:42 +0000

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By: Voices en Español » Moving beyond “no lo sé”

Voices en Español » Moving beyond “no lo sé” — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:35:39 +0000

[...] do a poll of English speakers learning Spanish, their most frequently-used phrase would be “lo siento.” Coming in a very close second would probably be the phrase “no lo [...]

By: Spanish Word of the Day: perdonar | Spanish Only

Spanish Word of the Day: perdonar | Spanish Only — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:01:35 +0000

[...] there are several ways to say sorry in Spanish. Some months ago Eleena of Voices en Español summed up some, like lo siento, disculpa (from disculpar) and perdone (from perdonar, today’s word), along [...]

By: Voices en Español » Taking your foot out of your mouth: How to handle verbal blunders in Spanish

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:20:25 +0000

[...] written about the topic of apologizing in Spanish before in “Sorry, Excuse Me, Forgive Me,” but here are some new phrases to add to the [...]

By: eleena

eleena — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:49:49 +0000

Thanks for the positive feedback, Cyril! Hope you’ll become a regular visitor around here.

By: Cyril

Cyril — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:31:50 +0000

This is a really good article!!

I used to say lo siento all the time as well. Thank you for the nice information. I am sure many people will learn from it because it is used so many times in the incorrect way!

I am looking forward to your next blog!

By: Voices en Español » Accepting apologies…in Spanish

Voices en Español » Accepting apologies…in Spanish — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:27:48 +0000

[...] a post I made last week about apologizing in Spanish, here is the second part — accepting apologies. This entry will be much shorter than the [...]

By: eleena

eleena — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:01:25 +0000

@Petrichor, grazi, digo, gracias. Thanks for keeping me on my toes! (I’ve changed that sentence in the original entry to correct that typo.)

By: Petrichor

Petrichor — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:53:57 +0000

Thanks for this much-needed piece considering that, occasionally, everyone needs to apologise to others for stepping on someone’s toes (either literally or metaphorically) or beg forgiveness for committing pecados like cheating on one’s better (and, subsequently, bitter) half (in which case I am pretty sure a simple ‘perdón’ will be a bit inadequate). Now we know what to say when

Una pequeña cosita: You wrote “lo lamento lo occurido” with 2c’s and 1r rather than the other way around. I know such spellings are confusing for us english-speakers. Estoy seguro que ha sido sin querer y que no volverá a repetirse.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:35:53 +0000

¡Perdón! or the more polite ¡Perdone! are more than enough most of the times, as said in the article, “Lo siento” is intended for serious situations. Try not to say “Lo siento” too much, it can sound frightening …you give the impression something really bad is going to happen afterwards

¡Disculpe! or ¡Disculpa! would be the equivalent to “Excuse me!”, I believe.

By: Jeffrey Hayes

Jeffrey Hayes — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:52:33 +0000

I’m definitely guilty of using “lo siento” too much. In fact, I have used it for basically all of the examples given above, but this is a really useful guide for when to use “lo siento” and when to use its variations — which I actually now prefer and will begin to use more. Thanks!

By: Erik R.

Erik R. — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:38:45 +0000

You should print this out, category II at least, and give it as a pamphlet to foreigners who marry Spaniards. You could title it “Salvamatrimonios”.

Good stuff.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:15:52 +0000

Hehe. I love the “¡ay!” they prepend to “Perdón”

By: chris

chris — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:25:55 +0000

Nice one – I was a fellow junkie too