# Message boards in Spanish as good as this one?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 3, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-boards-in-spanish-as-good-as-this-one/516184 "2009-11-03T18:29:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Victory\_Candescence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Victory\_Candescence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victory_Candescence)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-boards-in-spanish-as-good-as-this-one/516184/1 "2009-11-03T18:29:27Z")

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Are there any out real good ones out there?

Everything below this point in my post can be considered “optional reading”:

By the way, learning a foreign language has made me a lot more tolerant of the mistakes of foreign speakers. How can I get annoyed when someone Chinese forgets to pluralize a word when I myself often mix up “ser” and “estar” and am still fuzzy on the distinction between the indicative and the subjunctive?

Also, speaking live is a much more mistake-prone experience. I rarely mix up adjective genders when writing, but when you’re trying to speak quickly, it’s very easy to accidentally say something with bad grammar like “la persona alto”.

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**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-boards-in-spanish-as-good-as-this-one/516184/2 "2009-11-05T04:06:18Z")

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It’s not a message board of general topics like this one, but the forums at [www.wordreference.com](http://www.wordreference.com) are an excellent language resource. Native speakers of both English and every variety of Spanish go there to ask questions and discuss aspects of language. I’m a native English speaker but speak Spanish with clients in a therapeutic context. The forums have really helped me refine my language by suggesting appropriate terminology. Plus just browsing questions about phrases and idioms is really interesting.