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5,460 questions • 8,290 answers • 801,193 learners
In the kwiz, there was a phrase to complete: "Me vi tentada ..." I had selected tentado instead of tentada, which was marked wrong. The thing was that there was no indication, neither in the sentence itself or in the instructions, that the speaker was female. Why then would "Me vi tentado..." be incorrect?
In a grammar textbook, I ran across the structure "la + de + nombre + que + verbo (+ sujeto) (+ tiempo o lugar)" as an intensifier. Does this have the same function as "qué de"?
Despite being an assigned topic for a quiz, the topic question will randomly not show up in the quiz. Instead, sometimes there will only be nine questions with no question about "alguien." One cannot answer a question that wasn't there, so I am getting penalized for for not answering a question that wasn't presented. It's kinda hard to reach goals while contending with faulty programming on this question and other questions.
Worth a trip to Spain just to hear Inma speak . . .
Well, I guess if that's how they speak in Argentina, I won't be visiing there soon, if ever. Apart from the yeismo, the speaker articulated more through her nose than through the mouth (French-style) making her words almost impossible to understand. Good, clear Spanish is my aim.
Why does one sentence use con terminación en., And the next sentence use que acaban en for the same English construction?
Some examples use the verb “estar”. But can we ever use “ser”? Ex: “Mis primos fueron aburridos hasta que viajaron a españa.” Thanks.
C1 topic: Using the pluperfect subjunctive in hypothetical clauses (si) followed by the perfect conditional/ the pluperfect subjunctive When you have write-in answers on this topic, despite having three correct options for the second clause (e.g. habría +, hubiera +, or hubiese + past participle) you will often be marked wrong or your proficiency score will drop like the answer was wrong, and you will never ever be able to get to 100% unless you somehow consistently guess which of the three correct answers actually works for that particular question. So to get 100%, you will have to either memorize or write down the question and the top answer that is above your answer in a notebook or google doc or something, and use that exact answer the next time that same question shows up. There is no real learning at this point for the write-in answer, but the algorithm does not work and the technical team has not been capable of fixing this issue for 9 months. It really, really stinks doing this hack, but none of us like to see our proficiency score plummet randomly for correct responses along with not being able to get a deserved diamond for something we have worked hard for.
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