Hey! Welcome! This is Venture Out Spanish, a website focused on the study of Argentinian Spanish.
Cambridge Dictionary definition is perfect:
to leave a safe place and go somewhere that may involve risks
And that’s exactly the concept I want to stress. When we make the decision of learning a language, there will certainly be risks involved. Perhaps not those of a real jungle, but others of a different and equally fascinating kind.
Sometimes my Spanish speaking friends ask me ‘So, Mati, what does Venture Out mean in Spanish?’ and I have a hard time trying to explain. Not because the definition is complex, but because conveying the same idea in Spanish is not as straightforward.
If you look up for the phrasal verb definition, you’ll find that they deal with the idea of Adventure [aventura]. Through the noun we arrive to the pronominal verb [aventurarse], which conjugated takes us to:
“AVENTURATE EN EL ESPAÑOL”.
Notice that the stress in the imperative forms in Argentinian Spanish falls in the last sylable before the pronoun.
I’m happy to be a part of this ecosystem and hope to contribute to the spread of Spanish learning.
Hope to stay in touch with you, and thanks for reading and engaging from now on.
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