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    There are Dominicans from New York and there are Dominicans from other states

    I wasn't sure where to post this but here goes. I was on a flight to Santo Domingo and I struck up a conversation with the attractive speaker (the Spanish speaking flight attendant). My friend who is a native Spanish speaker couldn't place her accent (her Spanish was impeccable) so I used...
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    Serious Dominican Dating

    After reading so many "we were in love after 10 minutes and married six months later" stories. I was wondering for the expats who live outside of the tourist fantasy zone and have developed friendships with regular (hate that word but you get the idea) Dominicans or have a serious mature...
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    Regional pronunciation question

    If this has been asked before, I apologize but I am curious. I was speaking to a woman from Santo Domingo while on vacation on the north coast and she pronounced her the ll and y like the English j. Maybe I was just not paying attention but I had never noticed this before while speaking to a...
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    New Years in DR

    What usually happens on New Years? The DR is this year's New Year trip. How is it usually celebrated?
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    I would like that we be friends.

    How does one say that in Spanish? I want to say me gustar?a que seamos amigos. But according to the sequence of tenses the conditional is followed by the imperfect subjunctive so that would make it, me gustar?a que fu?ramos amigos. Which is correct?
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    Conveying this idea in Spanish

    How do you say, "I was supposed to go to a dinner party on Saturday?" The is precluded by the question, "what are you doing Saturday?" The idea that you want convey is you were invited but if the person asking has a better option you are game.
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    Language and Love

    I am curious, how does one develop a relationship where neither party speak a significant amount of the other party's language? How does someone with basic or no Spanish communicate enough with a lover who doesn't speak any or very little English to form anything beyond a shallow bond?
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    Forgetting

    What is difference between olvidar and ovlidarse? Also, could someone explain this structure? Se me olvidaron los boletos. Is this passive? As oppose to olvid? los boletos?
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    Hacerse Pagar

    What does this mean? I saw this in a sentence and while I got the jist of the sentence, I couldn't really get the exact idea what "hacerse pagar" was conveying.
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    Drunk talk

    What are some Dominican expressions for being drunk? Ranging from a little tipsy to hammered. Also, what is the most common way of saying you are hungover.
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    I am shocked!!!

    I am looking for a word to express extreme suprise. What would be the word that accurately conveys this?
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    Language question

    How do you say "threesome" or "menage a trios" in spanish in general or specifically in DR? I thirst for knowlegde.