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How do you know when to use definite articles after the preposition "de"?   For instance "la influencia de la globalización" or "la vida de las mujeres"?   Why not just "la influencia de globalización" or "la vida de mujeres"?      In this article on "de", Using the preposition "de" in Spanish with nouns for description , none of the examples have a definite article after de.

This below in the lesson could be this month or could be future. It is a bit confusing, why is the above wrong to be in the present, if it uses the same structure as the below?

Here, the speaker could be referring to the current month which they are still in, or they could be referring to this "coming" month

this is 'to him' which is to me should us le not lo. 

Don't bother answering, no one ever answers me here anyway

Is it because conseguir refers to a person not a thing?

I think the conjugation of servir in this lesson seems to be incorrect, it leaves off the s in all forms, except in the nosotros form i where it leaves off the root ser.  

What does this expression mean?

The test at the bottom of this lesson always marks the second answer wrong?

Un ejercicio de lectura realmente útil. Vocabulario nuevo, datos interesantes sobre España leídos con claridad y con una dicción perfecta. Gran trabajo y lo he disfrutado enormemente