Spanish language Q&A Forum

In this quiz question (Elia no va a empezar el curso este año ________ va a tener un año sabático.) it seems to me that "pero" works just as well as "sino que". It doesn't seem to be a clear distinction between pero and sino que - it seems they both can be right. In one sense, you are adding a new idea/action of taking a sabbatical & should use pero, or you can think of the sabbatical as a substitution for beginning classes and use sino que. Why is sino que "correct" and pero ïncorrect"? 

Sigo pensando and Continúo pensando… am I misunderstanding? How is continúo an option?

So, here it says así así means so so and I remember learning that in school as well, but I've had a few different native speakers tell me that they don't say that, and they're more likely to say mas o menos. Is así así primarily used in Spain? Or is it an older saying? 

Thanks!

“María’s family are happy” is given as the translation to “La familia de María está contenta”. 

This didn’t sound right to me so I googled and found this- https://style.mla.org/verbs-with-collective-nouns/

The reference would suggest that the translation should be ”María’s family is happy” as the members of the family are in agreement. 

Any comments would be helpful. Thank you. 

According to my dictionary, the word órgano is masculine, but the text has "una órgano."

"In Spanish, nouns can be preceded by numbers."     Can the numbers be other places?

If they can would you give examples.    Sounds like all the numbers are   invariable  if below 199.    200 and above agree with noun that it is in front of.    And the agreement goes with the hundreds.

100 when  it becomes 101 the word for 100 becomes Ciento    Is it only ciento when working with nouns.    Say in general counting ciento also.    People are talking about a cienta.   Maybe does not happen.

Do we have link to learn about numbers?

In the example: 

Nuestra ayuda está dirigida a jóvenes sin empleo. Estas son personas que han acabado sus estudios y no han encontrado trabajo.

why is it "Estas" and not "Estos"? Doesn't this pronoun need to agree with "jóvenes" rather than "personas"?