Level: Lower Intermediate Lessons
Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Ready for another dose of lower intermediate knowledge? Well join Kathy and Ana as they help you flex those more advanced brain cells with an in depth look at those irregular verbs in the imperfect tense. What’s so imperfect about the imperfect tense? Does this tense exist in English? What’s it used for? These girls will pull you through! Also, you’ll definitely want to keep an eye out for Verb Conjugation Lessons that cover the imperfect tense too, so that you can approach the same topic from a few different standpoints.
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6 Responses to “Lower Intermediate Lesson #9 - Where were you - II”
Wednesday at 5:44 am
Thanks to Kevin Macleod for the music in today’s lesson.
The theme of Non governmental organizations (ONGs in Spanish) is a really interesting current issue. Does anyone have any links they could post for NGOs that do work in Latin America?
Fellow Spod101 students…look into this NGO field for some really great ways to use your new language skills to do good in Latin American communities.
Friday at 9:20 pm
A mi me gustó esta leccion mucho. ¡Bien hecho!
Tengo dos preguntas:
1) Cuál es la frase inicial del audio? Suena como “Se han bienvenidas” or algo asi. Y si es así, no entiendo completamente la frase.
2) En la oracion “En la librería veía un libro….”, ¿ se puede usar el pretérito tambíen?. Entonces, sería “En la librería vi un libro….”.
Saturday at 1:52 am
Se me olvide…
Cuál es la otra palabra para piscina?
Saturday at 4:43 am
¡Hola Rodney!,
pienso que és “sean bienvenidos” (conjunctivo)
Monday at 1:42 am
Hola Rodney,
Sí. La frase inicial es “sean bienvenidos”… literally, “be welcomed”. Es el llamado “subjuntivo optativo”. Se le dice “optativo” porque no está subordinado. Otro ejemplo sería “tenga buenos días (have a good day, or, may you have a good day).
“2) En la oracion “En la librería veía un libro….”, ¿ se puede usar el pretérito tambíen?. Entonces, sería “En la librería vi un libro….”.”
Yes, both of these are correct; but, the meaning differs. If you say “veía”, it’s like saying “I was looking”, “I was browsing through”, again, imperfect = duration; but, if you say “vi”, now you’re saying that you “saw” the book, that you became aware of its existence in a single swoop. No duration here. It’s a completed action.
¿Ya queda más claro?
Saludos y suerte,
Joseph
Monday at 1:44 am
Casi me olvido. En México se suele decir “alberca” en vez de “piscina” para “swimming pool”.
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