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Is there any difference in meaning between “puede que”  and “tal vez” or “quizás” or are they essentially the same?

Graciás

Jamie

please, help to understand why when I am using formal question

tiene un boligrafo is correct but

tiene usted un boligrafo marked as incorrect

Hola,

El título de este ejercicio indica que el nombre del rey mago es "Melchior" pero el texto usa una ortografía diferente de "Melchor." 

¿Hay una diferencia?

Saludos

John

When asking for Angela’s phone number why is it “a Angela” and not “de Angela”

I'm quite confused regarding 'borrow' and 'lend' in Spanish.

I wonder if it's because I've been learning Spanish from a Latin American source and have learned various ways to say 'to borrow' and 'to lend' using such things as 'prestar', 'pedir prestado' and 'tomar prestado'. Grammatically I understand how these phrases work, but they only seem to imply borrow/lend, and I've never been entirely comfortable using any of them!

I.O.P + dejar as used in Spain is quite new to me... and it actually makes sense straight away!

So, I'm interested to know if 'prestar' is used at all in Spain, and if so, how?  

BTW, as there seems to be no exact equivalent to borrow and lend between English and Spanish many people get confused by it. A separate lesson on the subject would be a great addition to the Kwiziq library imo ;)

Saludos 

"Ahora casi todo es digital, es muy inmediato, cómodo, y ahorras mucho tiempol; ."  Why didn't the structure continue with the conjugation in the third person singular?  es digital; es muy inmediato; ....it is digital, it ismore immediat then:-  it saves a lot of time.   The "s" at the end of "ahorras" is not very distinct and logic would seem to demand that the last part would be "It saves a lot of time" rather than " You save a lot of time"  (in the second person familiar form)

"we were studing at the university of Salamanca during the 90'

While translating the verb study in spanish , I think we will use preterite indefinido (pretertio perfecto simple) because of time frame (during the 90) instead of preterite imperfecto. 

Please guide me on this. 

I don't understand why I am told that it should be "Alberto llora MUY a menudo".  

Everything; the lesson included; tells me it should be "mucho".