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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 11 Relative Clauses Posted by Laura & Adam on Jan 26, 2011
¡Hola a todos! ¿Qué tal la semana? Hoy vamos a practicar el Presente de Subjuntivo en frases de relativo – Present Subjuntive in Relative Clauses. We will first discuss exactly what a Relative Clause is and afterwards we will see when and when not to use the Present Subjunctive in such cases. When you find…
Vídeo: Masculine and Feminine Nouns – A Review Posted by Adir on Dec 27, 2010
Hey, there! Here’s a short video to review masculine and feminine nouns in Spanish. Aprovéchenlo.
Usos del “Se” Posted by Magda on Dec 17, 2010
El pronombre “se” es posiblemente uno de los más usados en castellano, y podemos encontrarlo realizando múltiples funciones. Hoy, vamos a recordar algunas de ellas. Se, pronombre personal en lugar de le o les Se es una variante de estos pronombres, cuando actúan como complemento indirecto en una oración, siempre que vayan seguidos de lo-la-los-las…
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…
How to say “again” in Spanish Posted by Magda on Nov 27, 2010
There are cases when the same Spanish word can be expressed in different ways in English. For example, the verb “esperar” can be translated into English as “to expect”, “to hope”, or “to wait”. The opposite is also true in other cases, and today we will be dealing with one of them. The English adverb…
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)…
Spanish Lesson Advanced 7 Pronombres de objeto directo e indirecto Posted by Laura & Adam on Nov 10, 2010
Advanced level Spanish video lesson analysing interesting, lesser known grammar rules related to the use of direct and indirect object pronouns ¡Hola! ¿Qué tal estáis todos? Hoy vamos a hablar de los complementos de Objeto directo e indirecto. Seguro que ya los conocéis y los usáis, pero existen algunas reglas que quizá nunca hayáis oído…