Something I've never seen before

mamichula24 · #1 04-25-2006, 05:47 PM

I'm just starting to learn spanish. I've decided to download a bunch of spanish songs (I found most of them by accident. Most of which I really like and are "newer" and by fairly well known artists...found that out talking to my friend in the DR.)
I finally found the lyrics to a couple of them, so now I can follow along and know that I'm singing...I may not understand yet, but at least I'll be singing the right words. Anyway, I noticed something that I had never seen before in the lyrics. It's a "A" with...**** don't have it on my keyboard, but it's a little squiggly (for a lack of a better descriptive) over top of the A. And it's in the middle of the word.
Here's an example: "si tantas veces juraste que tu me amarAas" (the squiggly above the big a)
I've never seen a capitalized letter in the middle of the word.
What does it mean?
How is it properly pronounced?

xamaicano · #2 04-25-2006, 06:14 PM

It should be an accent over the a, but sometimes when you take formatting from one format to another the characters don't take. It should read "tu me amarás."

MrMike · #3 04-25-2006, 06:58 PM

For pronunciation, it basically just means the accent goes on that sylable, as it represents an exception to the way Spanish words are generally accented.

For spelling, it's a long list of stupid rules that I think should have been long abandoned, but it helps to keep the masses (and foreigners) from thinking they are educated for a few extra semesters.

LOPTKA · #4 04-25-2006, 07:01 PM

[quote=mamichula24]I'm just starting to learn spanish.

Wow, how did you get your name? What does it mean?

mamichula24 · #5 04-26-2006, 10:47 AM

Hi Loptka

I'm just learning spanish as well. Mami chula is a nickname I got the first time I visited the DR. As a joke I called my friend Papi chulo...and he retaliated and called me Mami chula, so it's been an ongoing thing with us....so it has nothing to do with who i am, just an inside little thing.

leonardito · #6 04-27-2006, 06:41 PM

hi,
.
here is a collection of
spanish "old" songs,
maybe you can use it to sing ?
.
http://lcupryk.profusehost.net/spani...anishsongs.htm
.
espero que le guste.