I am revisiting my Spanish course on Duolingo. I love the multilingual voice in my head that sees an object and knows two words for it - it makes everyday life a bit of a game.  The table - La Mesa... ding ding 10 points for you! In a recent set of lessons, I had to translate 'quiero' and 'necesito'.  Funnily, I knew the actual meaning of these words - 'I want' and 'I need' but when translating sentences my brain regularly substituted 'I would like'.  So I translated 'Yo quiero una falda verde' as 'I would like a green skirt' but the actual meaning of this sentence is 'I want a green...

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