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I find the hints very helpful in these exercises, and my experience is that the equivalent listening dictations in the French course provide many more hints. The only hint given here is, "Tierra del Feugo". The words with which I was unfamiliar in this exercise were: recorrer; atraversar; bosques; and inolvidable. I was able to sound them out and look them up in the Collins Spanish/English dictionary. I was also unsure of the correct spelling for equipo and ciclismo. I knew the word, "entrenar" only because it is so close to the French, "s'entrainer", and again was able to sound it out.

This is a bit humbling for me to admit to my lack of knowledge of these vocabulary words, but it would be a big help to have them provided as hints to look up as we go through the exercise. Then, at least, we would know the spelling and would be able to look them up in the dictionary.

Saludos!

Why was "por lo tanto" marked wrong in this test? It is perfectly correct, isn't it?

1) Armin y yo ____ 25 años

B.Somos

C.TenemosG.

2. Yo ____ 30 años1

A.Soy

B.Tengo

C.Tiene. 

3. ¿Vosotros de dónde ____?

A.Eres

B.Somos

C. Sois

4. ____ franceses

A.Son

B.Sois

C.Somos

5. Yo ____ de Paris

A.Me llamo

B.Llamo

C.Soy

6. Ella ____ de Lyon

A.Es

B.Eres

C.Se llama

Un bolígrafo también es una pluma. Si?

Hola,

In this lesson we have the example of "Si, te quiero."

The direct object pronouns introduced are: Me, Te, Nos, and Os. The other direct object lesson referred to deals with: lo, la, los, and las. 

What is the direct object pronoun for "Usted", the formal of "Tu"; or "Ustedes", the plural of "Tu" in Latin America?

I seem to remember it to be: "le" and "les" respectively.

For example, I would say to my elderly neighbor, "Si, yo le quiero"

Is this correct? And, is there a lesson that covers the direct object pronouns for "usted" and "ustedes"?

Gracias,

N. Hilary

For this question:

"El guiso solo necesita una pizca de sal. No pongas ____ "

I couldn't decide whether it should be "tantas" or "tanta" because it wasn't clear to me at all whether the pronoun is referring to "una pizca" or "sal". If I recall correctly I put "tantas", attempting to agree with "una pizca" but it was the wrong answer. Is it possible that both might be acceptable in real world speech because of that ambiguity, or am I missing some clear difference?

(e.g. in English "This stew only needs one pinch of salt. Don't put too many" would sound a bit wrong, but technically would be correct for the same reason, in my opinion. Of course you'd usually hear "This stew only needs *a* pinch of salt. Don't put too much.". While salt is an uncountable noun (in most contexts), "pinch" is, of course, not!)

On two occasions the text moved on before I could submit my answers and on another occasion it didn't let me submit an answer as I had maybe pressed a key which triggered the "Not sure about that one?" response. 

But this is to do with the nature of this sentence. For other sentences you can replace si with que, for example:

Me encantaría que vinera Carlos.

Me encantaría si viniera Carlos.