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Perífrasis: dejar de Posted by on Aug 22, 2011

The periphrasis dejar de has several uses in Spanish. The first use shows the end of an action or habit. Dejé de fumar el año pasado. I stopped smoking last year. He dejado de asistir a clase por falta de tiempo. I stopped going to class for lack of time / because I didn’t have…

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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 20 Spanish verb tense “El Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo” Posted by on Aug 10, 2011

¡Hola a todos! Today we are going to see a new Spanish verb tense:“El Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo”. We will start by analysing its form and then afterwards we will see in which situations the “Pretérito Imperfecto de Subjuntivo” is used. -AR verbs: • (Yo) hablara/hablase: I spoke • (Tú) hablaras/hablases: You spoke (friendly) •…

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Spanish Lesson Beginner 20 To need, to want, to prefer Posted by on Aug 3, 2011

¡Hola! ¿Cómo estáis? I hope very much that you are enjoying my Spanish video lessons and are starting to feel more confident with your Spanish. We are now up to lesson 20 in the beginner course and you have learned a great deal of the basics. Today we will look at three new, very useful…

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Spanish Lesson Beginner 18 Verbo Ir and transport Posted by on Jun 15, 2011

¡Hola a todos! Today we are going to look at the Spanish verb “Ir” (“to go”), some useful transport vocabulary in Spanish and sentences related to “Ir”: Ir: To go: (yo) voy: I go (tú) vas: You go (friendly) (usted) va: You go (formal) (él/ella) va: He/She goes (nosotros/as) vamos: We go (vosotros/as) váis: You…

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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 17 Pretérito Perfecto de Subjuntivo Posted by on Jun 1, 2011

¡Hola a todos! Hoy vamos a practicar un subjuntivo nuevo: El Pretérito Perfecto de Subjuntivo. First we will see how to construct this grammar tense and later how to use it. This tense has two parts: Presente de subjuntivo de “haber” + Participio pasado Let´s see first the Presente de subjuntivo of the verb “Haber”…

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How to say “I’ve been doing something” in Spanish Posted by on May 27, 2011

Hey, there! How’s it going? Sometimes we need to adapt some structures in English and Spanish to get our meaning across. That happens when we say we’ve been doing something for some time in Spanish. Read some examples: I’ve been telling you this for a year, but you don’t pay any attention. Durante un año…

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The several meanings of the verb “hacer” Posted by on May 24, 2011

All right, we know that hacer means “to do” or “to make”, but this verb has several other meanings that are not so obvious like desempeñar, representar, interpretar, cometer, armar, conseguir, lograr, resolver, efectuar, componer, construir, levantar, formar, cumplir, amasar and acumular. Check out these sentences and an alternative meaning for the verb hacer. 1…

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