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This was easy to understand because it was so slow. How do I get to listen to stories in Latin American Spanish? The only ones I have found have been in European Spanish.
This was listed as B2, but required knowledge from C1 areas: Using dicho, dicha, dichos, dichas to say this/these (formal) and Using Spanish relatives el que, la que, los que, las que = the one/ones who/that (relative pronouns)
A great poem in Spanish which should be enjoyed in Spanish. While the translation gives lots of new vocab (with poetic license) the true enjoyment is in the flow of Spanish and not in the clumsiness of an English translation!
But the concept of the subjunctive is different in English and is little understood by most anglófonos. For example:
Te di el dinero para que me dejaras en paz. - In the English subjunctive form "I gave you the money so that you should leave me alone."
Whereas to use "would leave me alone" should be in the conditional: "Te di el dinero para que me dejarías en paz.
Or are the two subjunctive concepts interpreted "differently" ?
I have a question about the sentence: "Le dare el dinero que le debo por si acaso se me olivida despues." If I understand, this sentence expresses the idea that the speaker feels that it is fairly likely that they will forget. If they thought that it was unlikely that they would forget, then the conditional clause would say "..se me olvidara". So myy question is: What if the main clause were in el preterito indefinido (Le di el dinero...)? Would the conditional clause still need to be "...se me olvidara"? If the speaker considers the condition in the subordinate clause to be less probable, the conditional clause would use the imperfecto do subjunctivo (...se me olividara) whether the main clause refers to a future action or a past action? Is this correct?Sorry, I don't know how to type accents.
Let's forget about our problems and let's enjoy ourselves.
Olvidémonos de nuestros problemas y disfrutemos!
-monos ("s" dropped from mos before "nos" added) used for olvidar,
but -mos (present subjunctive) used for disfrutar. Rule?
Hola Silvia,
¿Se usa mucho el verbo acudir? O sea, ¿se usa mucho en vez de 'ir'?
Gracias por usarlo aquí, nunca lo había visto antes.
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