Sentences
Questions and negatives without do
Spanish builds both with no extra machinery.
English needs do and does to ask a question or make a negative. Spanish needs neither. Put no in front of the verb for a negative, and raise your intonation, or add the marks in writing, for a question.
Examples
hablas inglésyou speak Englishstatement
¿hablas inglés?do you speak English?same words, marked by punctuation
no hablas inglésyou do not speak Englishno in front of the verb
no, no trabajo hoyno, I do not work todaytwo no words is normal, one answers and one negates
The mistake this causes
Trying to translate do. It has no Spanish equivalent in these structures.