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Advanced Spanish Lesson 40 Acentuación de las palabras (Part 3) Posted by Laura & Adam on Oct 9, 2012
Third Advanced Spanish lesson in the series looking at how to classify Spanish words according to the location of accents. In this video we see how to use Spanish accents with words that have various vowels together, using diptongos, triptongos, and hiatos. Hoy vamos a hablar de cómo acentuar palabras con varias vocales juntas. A…
Intermediate Spanish Lesson 40 Describing how things taste or smell in Spanish Posted by Laura & Adam on Oct 2, 2012
In this intermediate Spanish lesson we will look at how to describe how things taste or smell in Spanish. There are many ways to describe nice tastes or smells in Spanish, such as Huele fenomenal (It smells great) or Está muy bueno (It tastes very good) and there are also many ways to describe bad…
Beginner Spanish Lesson 40 The other Past Simple in Spanish – El Pretérito Imperfecto Posted by Laura & Adam on Sep 25, 2012
In Spanish there are two grammar tenses which are equivalent to the English Past Simple tense. In the previous beginner Spanish lesson we looked at one of the Spanish Past Simples – El Pretérito Indefinido – and today we are going to see El Pretérito Imperfecto. El Pretérito Imperfecto is used differently to El Pretérito…
Advanced Spanish Lesson 39 Acentuación de las palabras (Part 2) Posted by Laura & Adam on Sep 18, 2012
Second Advanced Spanish lesson looking into how to classify Spanish words according to the location of their accent. ¡Hola a todos! En la última clase de nivel avanzado vimos las reglas básicas de acentuación en español. Hoy, vamos a ver una regla un poco más compleja, la tilde diacrítica. La tilde diacrítica se coloca sobre…
Intermediate Spanish Lesson 39: Phrases and structures to react to the actions of others Posted by Laura & Adam on Sep 11, 2012
In this Intermediate Spanish lesson we will look at various useful Spanish phrases and structures to express how much you like or dislike the actions of others, such as Me encanta que + subjuntivo (I love …) and Odio que + subjuntivo (I hate …). These are the kinds of phrases in Spanish that we…
Spanish lexicon II. Arabic origin of words and expressions. Posted by Magda on Sep 6, 2012
Hace tan solo unos días hablamos sobre la influencia latina en el Español, así que hoy toca hacerlo sobre la árabe. La presencia árabe en España duró más de siete siglos, por lo que su aportación afectó a las restantes culturas de la península, incluida la lengua. Hay términos en los que claramente detectamos su…
Beginner Spanish Lesson 39 The Past Simple in Spanish: El Pretérito Indefinido Posted by Laura & Adam on Sep 4, 2012
In this Spanish lesson we will learn how to talk about things we did in the past using the Past Simple in Spanish: El Pretérito Indefinido. We will start by looking at how to construct the verb endings for the regular Spanish verbs in El Pretérito Indefinido. Unfortunately there are also irregular verbs which we…