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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 29 Useful conditional phrases Posted by on Feb 8, 2012

Hola ¿Qué tal? En la última clase de nivel intermedio, vimos las frases condicionales. Hoy vamos a ver unas expresiones con frases condicionales. In the last intermediate level Spanish lesson we looked at “Conditional Sentences”: what they are and how to construct them in Spanish. In this follow-on class we will look at some typical…

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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 28 Conditional sentences Posted by on Jan 18, 2012

¡Hola! ¿Cómo estáis? Today, we are going to see how to construct Conditional Sentences in Spanish. The Conditional tense is broadly defined as the verb tense that is used to indicate that an action or state of being is dependent on the occurrence of a condition. The Spanish Conditional tense is known as both El…

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Spanish Lesson Advanced 22 Expresar probabilidad con el Futuro y el Condicional Posted by on Sep 28, 2011

¡Hola a todos! Hoy vamos a hablar sobre dos tiempos que seguro que ya conocéis perfectamente: El Futuro y el Condicional. La forma de estos dos tiempos es bastante simple. Así que nos vamos a centrar en uno de sus usos que muchos estudiantes de español desconocen, pero que los hispanohablantes utilizamos constantemente: usar estos…

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How to say “If I were you…” in Spanish Posted by on Jul 7, 2011

We all want to give our opinion about something and sometimes people ask us for advice, so today I’m going to show you a very interesting way of expressing this: Yo que tú. Yo que tú means “if I were you” and it can be used with other pronouns too. Check out some examples: Yo…

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The conditional tense II: Usage Posted by on Jan 28, 2011

There are several ways in which the conditional is used in Spanish.  The connection among the conditional uses of verbs is that they don’t refer to events that definitely or necessarily have happened or are happening. In other words, the conditional tense refers to acts that can be seen as hypothetical, as we will see…

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The conditional tense in Spanish I: Form Posted by on Jan 25, 2011

The conditional tense I:  Form. The conditional tense is one of the most complicated tenses in Spanish. It does not only refer to a concrete moment in time (past, present or future), but it is used to express probability, possibility, wonder or conjecture. It is very connected to the future tense, that´s why we call…

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Review: el Condicional Simple Posted by on Oct 21, 2010

We use the condicional simple to express: 1. desire Me encantaría ir a Barcelona. – I would love to go to Barcelona. 2. advice Yo que tú, lo haría lo más pronto posible. – If I were you, I would do it as soon as possible. 3. probability Creo que no aceptaría la invitación. –…

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