"Why do you want to go to Spain?"
Translation:为什么你想去西班牙？
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This doesn't feel very natural at all. Normally when someone asks me "why" about something, they put it after 你。
In some questions Duo places 你 before "why" and in some after. And in each question correct solution can be only one (?!). You have to guess coorectly. What is the difference and what is correct?
From what i've seen, 要 can also mean "need to" but both 想 and 要 have a "want to" meaning. I think 要 should also be accepted though.
Why isn't it okay to put 为什么 right at the end, just as you would 什么, 哪儿 or 吗?
No, you are asking for the reasons "to go to Spain", so the "question marker" wei shen ma has to be where that reason would be in the answer --> before shiang. Sorry for the lack of Chinese characters and accents in the Pinyin, I still cannot do them right on mobile!
I'm not a native speaker, and only learning chinese from duo, but i think 要 is want in front of nouns and in front of verbs it's closer to will.
I think in some sence you can say that 会 is will-can and 要 is will-want.
But i really want a native speaker to clarify it and tell if i'm right or wrong.
要 should be acceptable here. 要 expresses a real desire vs 想 which expresses more of a casual interest.
A friend told me 要 is used when you are going to do something. So I think it would translate out to 'why are you going to Spain'. I still choose wrong between 要 and 想, a lot.
Including 旅游 implies the intention to travel, which is not specified here. If we knew that "go to Spain" in this sentence clearly meant "travel to Spain ("not to go to Spain to work" etc.), then it would be correct.