Phase reblog for your Spanish studying anon!
I’m not an expert but I have studied Spanish for 7 years in the UK, so here goes:
One way you could get around gendering is refer to yourself in the third person. You’d have to still use a name for yourself to start with, but you could say that you prefer a certain name.
E.g. If your name were Jessica (like me) you could say ‘Jessica/Esa/Esta persona prefiere el nombre de Jess’ (Jessica/that/this person prefers the name Jess) (a more gender neutral name than Jessica).
After that, refer to yourself in the third person, that is, say ‘they’ or ‘this person’. In Spanish, when you use they in the singular sense, you use the he/she suffix for verbs, but without gendering the person (el/ella prefiere - he/she prefers) you can’t tell the gender, so stick with esa/ésta person:
-ar verbs –> -a // habla, estudia, cambia, gusta, odia, esta (from estar) (speaks, studies, changes, likes, hates, is)
-er verbs –> -e // come, bebe, tiene, es (from ser) (eats, drinks, has, is)
-ir verbs –> -e // prefiere, venga, vive (prefers, comes from, lives)(-ir verbs often become irregular when you conjugate in the first person, and some -er verbs too, so check specific verb endings for those)
For preferences like liking and hating things, you put 'le’ in front of the preference word each time you use it for the first time in a sentence, 'le’ is a neuter word for singular they. 'Le gusta café pero odia la carne.’
Example:
'Esta persona que voy a describir se llama Jessica, pero prefiere el nombre de Jess. Es/Viene de Irlanda pero ha vivido en Londres durante toda su vida. Al momento estudia la media en colegio, y trabaja como asistente a los niños con deshabilidades. Esta persona prefiere el verano que el invierno, le gusta la música de CHVRCHES y Ellie Goulding, al mismo tiempo no le gusta los conciertos porque tiene una discapacidad auditiva.’
I won’t translate all that because it’s early here and I need to get ready for work, but stick it in a translator if the messager doesn’t know what that means. Not by any means a comprehensive guide, but certainly a good place to start.
Anon, message me if you want specific help!
