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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 10 Differences between the Spanish verbs “Ser” and “Estar” Posted by Laura & Adam on Jan 5, 2011
¡Hola a todos! I would first like to wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year! I hope one of your New Year’s Resolutions was to study and practice even more Spanish and to watch every single one of Laura’s video lessons. Today we are going to analyse in detail the differences between the…
Spanish Lesson Beginner 10 The verb “To have” (el verbo “Tener”) and the family Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 29, 2010
¡Hola a todos! I hope you have enjoyed a very nice Christmas and eaten and drunk far too much. I hope you are also keeping up the practice with your Spanish studies and using some of the things we have already learned together. In our previous beginner´s lesson, we covered some vocabulary about the family…
Spanish Lesson Advanced 9 “Se buscan personas” vs “Se busca a personas” Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 22, 2010
¡Hola a todos! ¿Qué tal os va todo? Deseando que llegue la Navidad, ¿verdad? Hoy vamos a hablar sobre la palabra “se”. Ya que al tener varios usos diferentes se puede llegar a confusión. Seguramente alguna vez os habéis preguntado cómo decir este tipo de frases: ¿“Se busca personas”, “Se buscan personas”, “Se busca a…
Spanish Lesson Intermediate 9 Spanish Present Subjunctive to express opinions Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 15, 2010
Hola, ¿Qué tal? Hoy vamos a ver cómo usar el Presente de subjuntivo para expresar opinión. When we use opinion verbs in affirmative, the verb after “que” is in indicative. If the opinion verb is in negative, then the verb following “que” is in subjunctive. Let´s see some examples: Creo que + indicativo: I believe…
Spanish Lesson Beginner 9 Family, the verb “ser” and possessive determiners Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 8, 2010
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estáis? Today, we will see how to speak about the family in Spanish using el verbo “ser”, which is the verb “to be” in English, and possessive determiners. There is some very useful and fundamental information in this lesson. I hope you find it interesting. First, let´s see some vocabulary related to the…
Spanish Lesson Advanced 8 Expresiones coloquiales de modo Posted by Laura & Adam on Dec 1, 2010
¡Hola! ¿Cómo estáis todos? Hoy vamos a ver unas locuciones adverbiales de modo que se usan mucho en español. ¿Qué son las “locuciones adverbiales”? Pues son expresiones compuestas por una preposición y un sintagma nominal, adjetivo o adverbio que funcionan igual que un adverbio. La definición quizás os parezca un poco complicada, pero cuando veamos…
Spanish Lesson Intermediate 8 Spanish Subjunctive Present Tense with Indefinite Pronouns and Adjectives Posted by Laura & Adam on Nov 24, 2010
¡Hola! ¿Qué tal? I hope you are all very well and enjoying your Spanish studies. We are going to continue looking into the Spanish Subjunctive Present tense, today with sentences that include an indefinite pronoun or an indefinite adjective. ¿Qué es un pronombre indefinido? Words like “alguien” (someone), “algo” (something), nadie (nobody) and “nada” (nothing)…