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Movie tip: Un Cuento Chino Posted by Adir on Dec 30, 2011
Hey, what’s up? I took some days off during Christmas and New Years and I ended up watching an Argentinean movie, Un Cuento Chino (A Chinese Tale). Un Cuento Chino tells the story of Roberto, owner of a hardware store, and a Chinese man called Jun. Roberto was sitting at a park when Jun is…
The position of direct and indirect objects in sentences Posted by Adir on Dec 24, 2011
The pronombre complemento can come: 1. After the verb – this is called énclisis. Llámame a las ocho. In the case above the verb and the pronoun are written together. Attention! The pronombre complement always comes after verbs: – in the gerund: Estoy escribiéndole una carta. – Estoy escribiéndosela. – in the infinitive: Voy a…
La Navidad en Argentina Posted by Adir on Dec 22, 2011
¡Hola! Today we have another audio interview. This time my good friend Matías Oddone, an Argentinean who’s been living in Spain for a while, tells us how they celebrate Christmas in Argentina. Matías used be a VJ for music channel MuchMusic Argentina. Download audio Cómo se celebra el 24 de diciembre en Argentina. A ver…
La Navidad en Uruguay Posted by Adir on Dec 19, 2011
¡Hola a todos! I have this friend from Uruguay who lives in São Paulo, Isaac Rodríguez. We chatted over Skype and he told me how they celebrate Christmas and New Year’s in his home country. Check out his interview and pay attention to how he hesitates by using the informal word “este”. Download audio Bueno…
Verbs with two objects Posted by Adir on Dec 16, 2011
As we saw last week, we have verbs that have direct and indirect objects. Some verbs, however, have two objects: one direct and another indirect (with a preposition). Let’s see an example: Él escribió la carta para mí. – He wrote the letter to me. la carta – direct object para mí – indirect objetc…
Spanish slang: mogollón Posted by Adir on Dec 12, 2011
Yes, slang is part of our lives and definitely we need to learn some slang words to understand when native speakers use them and, why not, with care, use them ourselves? A very cool slang word is mogollón. Mogollón is basically a big amount of something, oodles of something. It comes from Italian moccobello or…
Song: Mis Deseos/Feliz Navidad, Michael Bublé + Thalía Posted by Adir on Dec 9, 2011
¡Hola a todos! ¿Cómo les está yendo por Navidades? A lot of English-speaking artist record songs for the Spanish-speaking market and Michael Bublé is no exception. On December 6th he had his Christmas special on NBC and sang with Latin diva Thalía. Michael tried to speak a little Spanish, just for fun, and along with…