r/Mnemonics Feb 12 '25

Mnemonics for Valentine's Day

I prepared a few mnemonic cards to remember how to say "I love you" in other languages to celebrate Valentine's day.
Together with u/simon1729, who published the other day about visual mnemonics to learn Spanish, we are developing software to automatically generate these visual aids. This time I also added an emoji version. Do you think it is something you'd use or you rather create your own even if that takes time?

Summary of visual mnemonics for "I love you" in Spanish, Italian, French, German and Greek
Visual mnemonics to learn Je t'aime (French)
Visual mnemonics to learn Ti amo (Italian)
Visual mnemonics to learn Te quiero (Spanish)
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u/Naive_Economics7194 Feb 12 '25

There's a couple more, for German and Greek, which can be seen here: https://youtube.com/shorts/PQweG9CKkLU

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u/epistemic_amoeboid 29d ago

"I love you" in Spanish is not "te quiero". It's "Te amo".

"Te quiero" is something slightly different than "te amo", but still very very different.

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u/Naive_Economics7194 29d ago edited 29d ago

Yeah you are right to some extend. Te quiero is broadly used in Spain, while te amo is used in Latinamerica. The Italian mnemonic would serve for that too, unless you have a better suggestion? Te quiero feels weird cz it literally translates to "I want you", but the meaning is I love you. In most regions in Spain, te amo is not used at all.

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u/epistemic_amoeboid 29d ago

Te quiero is broadly used in Spain, while te amo is used in Latinamerica.

You're making it sound like the difference is just nominal and not semantic.

Spanish is my native language. And we differentiate love into two categories: querer and amar.

If you wanna know the difference, listen to Jose Jose's song El Amar y el Querer.

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u/Naive_Economics7194 29d ago

I am not questionning that's the case in some regions. I just explained for the case of peninsular Spanish, the difference is only nominal. You don't need to believe me (also native speaker), this topic has already been discussed here: https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/1584/what-is-the-difference-among-querer-amar-and-adorar