Spanish language Q&A Forum

Have any of you struggled to fulfil the expectations of the improvement timeline? The grey line is always at least 4 percentages above my progress. What does it look like for you? Are you managing? Are you ahead? Let me know

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Why use  the  verb second person  plural veis  instead of ven when

there are 3 persons , Carol  Jorn and tu as the subjects of the sentence.?

I have only now noticed that I read 'brought' for 'bought', but the rest of my question stands.

It seems to me that there are examples of both Indicative and subjunctive  for the main clause in the lesson, yet when I use indicative in the tests it is always marked wrong. Please explain.

Hello, in this listening exercise, the pronunciation of the word "celebran" is helebran or similar, is this common?  Thanks

"Cada verano en Carballiño, Galicia, el segundo domingo de agosto celebran la feria del pulpo"

I'm pretty good with language, am a C1 in French, but I don't understand what is the question is asking about. Are you trying to teach the gender of the letters? Strange.........

In your example on the use of tanto...como, one of your sentence  has left me uncertain about the translation. Tanto cuando son pequeños como majores, los hijos siempre preocupan a los padres. The English translation in your example is: Whether they are young or grown-up, children are always a worry for their parents. The use of the personal "a" before the word "los padres" suggests that the children worry about the parents, except that the verb should have been "se preocupan"..If it was intended to mean that the parents always worry about the children whether young or grown-up, in my opinion, the words "los hijos" and "los padres" should be interchanged, with the verb se preocupan. Otherwise  " están ocupados" should have been used instead of "preocupan"  and or used before los padres. Please advise.

Hello,

I was just wondering about this today, how to tell when to use the subjunctive or the future.  Both have this element of uncertainly - to a certain degree - haven't happened as yet and both deal with maybes, etc. The future is never really set in stone.

For example : I will go out when the sun shines.  I think that in Spanish this could be said in either future or subjunctive, i.e.:

Saldré cuando brille el sol.

Saldré cuando brillará el sol.

Can you help me better understand this. 

Thank you.

Nicole

The lesson seems clear on when to use the article in a date, but questions don't make it clear which is called for. That needs to be cleaned up...........

I have not found a dictionary that shows ir to mean “get to”.  Is it correct? 

Thank you, Shirley.