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Please vote what your situation is:
I will go through all the responses and tally up the results, then share the final results once we are all finished. This has always interested me so hopefully others want to be involved in the outcome too

A) Native who naturally uses -ra majority of the time

B) Native who naturally uses -se majority of the time

C) Native who naturally uses 1 conjugation, but for certain verbs / conjugations, strictly uses the other (ie always using -ra, except for 1 verb conjugation ie fuese, where you always say -se)

D) Learner who naturally uses -ra majority of the time

E) Learner who naturally uses -se majority of the time

F) Learner who naturally uses 1 conjugation, but for certain verbs / conjugations, strictly uses the other (please reveal what verbs / conjugations you switch things up for :)! )

My cousin who was in SA for a while said that apparently to say ‘OK’, they don’t say ‘Vale’ - that’s a Spanish thing. Instead other words are used, and the whole time they’ve been saying Dale instead of Vale, and I’m just mishearing.

Is this true? I would have thought in SA ‘vale’ is also a very common word… would like to know opinions and countries/regions they come from

I’ve just looked up the women’s track 5k record (about 14 mins), while the winner of the 5k track just now was 15mins. How can they be a minute slower?

This is the same difference as the US champ in 100m getting 10.3s compared to bolts 9.58 (which surely couldn’t happen)- so why would their be such a disparity?

Is the world record just that much faster that the WR holder could have lapped the US national champ?

Where are we all communing

We have moving up/down k on the y axis: y = f(x) +- k

Moving left / right k on the x axis: y = f(x+-k)

What about for the same graph, if you have x = f(y)? (IE, for S/D curves, you typically have quantity as a function of Price instead), how do these change?

I learnt Spanish growing up but was never fluent. Pretty well versed though - wondering if paid lessons could still be worth it even though I know a lot already, or if self teaching is the best (study, reading, studying tv, etc)