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Esta lectura generaliza en exceso sobre los pueblos indígenas de Latinoamérica y sus creencias.  Vale la pena mencionar que el Día de Pachamama es celebrado en solo ciertas partes de América del Sur, no en todo Latinoamérica, y sólo por ciertos grupos indígenas, no todos.  Como menciona esta lectura, Pachamama es una diosa inca y de por sí su fiesta se celebra en los países donde viven las comunidades indígenas de ascendencia inca, es decir,  Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador y  Perú.  Hay otras comunidades indígenas no-incas que viven en los países arriba mencionados que no veneran a Pachamama y más allá de eso, hay otros países latinoamericanos en América del Sur, Centroamérica y América del Norte donde desconocen la tradición de Pachamama. 

Una frase incial más apropiada para esta lectura sería, "El Día de Pachamama fue celebrado hace escasos días en *algunos* pueblos indígenas de *Sudamérica*".  

If I say tengo que is this the same as necessito que for example tengo que ir or necessito ir 

Hi,

In an above question

¿ ________ curáis las heridas con algodón?

Do you treat your wounds with cotton wool?

My answer was Te,

 however the right answer was ( os )

can someone please explain why vosotros is used instead of tu?

No aceptaba que su amigo tuviera una serpiente en casa.

She couldn't accept her friend having a snake at home.

Why does this not translate to:

"She didn't accept that her friend had a snake at home."

In other words, why isn't  "had" the translation for "tuviera" instead of "having"?

Maybe I’m wrong but I thought in English, “when” is the one that goes with pretérito indefinido because it is “when” something happens, “when” something interrupts an existing action. So I would say “I was taking a shower when the phone rang” or “when you called, I was talking to a friend.” It’s weird to me to use “when” to go with an ongoing action. I mean “when” is a point in time, right? Not an ongoing event.

Hi,

I don't understand why some of these phrases have "de" or "que" in parentheses - what does this mean? 

 antes (de) que (before), con tal (de) que (provided that), mientras (que)

Are there certain times when you would use the words in parentheses or not use them? I'm confused as to why this isn't explained.

Thank you!

In the quiz question "se les han acabado las camisetas que me gustaban" what job is "les" doing? 

Inside my notebook, I tried to take a quiz, but it said, go to your notebook to take the quiz as many times as you like, so I went to the notebook again and got the same message.  Is this a glitch? Or am I doing something wrong?