"La fiesta es en el salón."
Translation:The party is in the hall.
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From Spanish Dictionary:
<pre>El baño está a la derecha de la sala. (The bathroom is to the right of the living room.)
Estamos en el café ahora y estarémos en el cine en 20 minutos. (We are at the café right now and we will be at the movie theatre in 20 minutes.)
Mi abuelo está en la luna. (My grandfather is out of it/lost.)
Exception for Parties
This is a big one: The location of an event or party is described using SER. Not ESTAR!
La fiesta es en mi casa. (The party is at my house.)
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It makes sense to me because the location never changes, since the event only happens once in all of time.
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I doubt that ser/estar can always be simplified to whether something is temporary or permant. For example: "Dónde está España?" "España está en Europa". Spain's geographical location is permanent (for all practical purposes) yet está is still used.
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Well, borders sometimes change. Look at the history of Hungary and Poland for example - they moved a lot (or rather expanded and shrunk).
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I just said I thought it makes sense, because that's how I remember that case. Although it generally is true that "ser" corresponds to permanence, and that location is a predictable exception. A native speaker could weigh in here, but it does seem to be true that "ser" is used for specific events in time because of that reason.
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Ser generally refers to a property of a noun while estar refers to situation or circumstance.
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I didn't try using "salon" in my English translation here, but it really should be a valid translation of Spanish "salón", I'd think.
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English translation salon worked here for me. My thought was the party is in the salon. Another correct translation was the living room so now I don't where the party is. Beauty parlor or living room? Either way it must have been one hell of party because I am now lost.
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"Salon" in English for something like "living room" or "hangout room" long pre-dates its use as a beauty parlor.
But, that was funny, so I gave you a lingot. :-)
funny, exept for the launguage. Just remember there are children and laidies here.
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Architecturally, a hall is a large room. In North America, a corridor (hallway) is often shortened to 'hall', but they are not the same thing.
A hall is by definition not a tight space, unless it's crowded with people. Halls are usually specifically designed for large gatherings. Have you ever been to Carnegie Hall?
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I put ' the party is in the living room' Duolingo says it's in the meeting room. I don't have a meeting room, so I've had to cancel the party
Some trivia - pre WWII, in the US the living room was the parlor. After the war, magazines like Good Housekeeping promoted the term 'living room' instead. Why? first because they wanted it to be used more (more housekeeping!) for 'living' and because the parlor was traditionally where deceased relatives were 'laid out' prior to burial. So 'living room' vs. 'dying room.'
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To also backup the use of living room, I've translated salon as living room on other translations and it accepted it so I'm extra confused why now its wrong
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Ironically, I didn't translate fiesta and was marked wrong. In my opinion, fiesta has been adopted into American English to the point where it doesn't need to be translated, in a similar way that salsa and kindergarten and sauerkraut and mensch et cetera. That little bit of Latin at the end of that list is a lovely bit of an awesome use of language on my part. Q.E.D. Nailed it!
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Sadly I cannot get this right as "living room' and "hall" are not among the choices offered. Onward and downward.
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Duolingo has repeatedly told me that 'salon' (with the accent on the o) means 'living room', yet when I put 'living room' for this, it was marked wrong. Why?