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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 10 Differences between the Spanish verbs “Ser” and “Estar” Posted by 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…

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Spanish Lesson Beginner 10 The verb “To have” (el verbo “Tener”) and the family Posted by 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…

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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 9 Spanish Present Subjunctive to express opinions Posted by 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…

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Spanish Irregular Verbs in the Future Posted by on Dec 10, 2010

Hello, there. Here’s a very useful tip for putting irregular verbs in the Future in Spanish. Remember that las desinencias (endings) are: -é, -ás, -á, -emos,-éis, -án. Check out their roots. decir – dir– (to say) –> diré, dirás, dirá, diremos, diréis, dirán haber – habr– (there to be) –> habré, habrás, habrá, habremos, habréis…

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What did you use to do when you were a kid? Say it in Spanish! Posted by on Nov 8, 2010

La niñez, qué época tan buena. In this post I’d like to know, me gustaría saber, what did you use to do when you were a boy/girl? I was a very naughty boy, un niño travieso, so I was in trouble all the time! Leave your answers in the comments. Cuando yo era niño/a, yo…

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Spanish Lesson Intermediate 7 How to use the Present Subjunctive Tense with expressions of probability Posted by on Nov 3, 2010

¡Hola! ¿Cómo estáis? Hoy vamos a practicar como usar el presente de subjuntivo con frases de probabilidad. In this lesson we are going to practice how to use the Subjunctive Present Tense with sentences of probability. “Sentences of probability” are sentences that highlight the probability of something happening with words such as “maybe”, “hopefully” or…

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El Futuro Perfecto de Indicativo Posted by on Oct 14, 2010

Even though this verb tense has this very strange and long name, it’s not difficult to use at all. It corresponds to English Future Perfect verb tense , showing that something will have happened at some time in the future. Here’s how it is formed: Future of haber (habré, habrás, habrá, habremos, habréis, habrán) +…

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