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Learn Spanish with Spanishpod101.com! Welcome back to Spain with Megan and David. Looks like another one is about to bite the dust. As Pablo swears to Carmen he will make her happy, our Iberian connection manages to fit in a look at the use of the gerund with the verb “ir” (to go), instead of the usual estar + gerund construction, which forms the majority of progressive tense expressions. What was all that? Well, there is only one place that you can find out. That’s right! The grammar bank in the learning center.
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Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Join Lisy and Alan for part 6 of the Rise and Shine episodes: a series of phone conversations between Félix, in Madrid, and Jimena, in Guayaquil. In this lesson, Alan will show us how to distinguish “what we will do” from “what we will be doing”, breaking it down and providing lots of insightful examples. Remember, these lessons are designed to be used along with the learning tools in the Learning Center, so if you don’t already have a Premium Subscription, take advantage of our 7 day free trial and see what it’s all about.
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Today, we have Part IV of the Rise and Shine episodes. Here, Lisy’s joined by Alan La Rue for his first Beginner lesson with the Spod101 team. Lisy and Alan take a look at how to express an action that is going now, even though we don’t know when it began or when/if it has ended. Today’s conversation takes place on the phone, where Jimena in Guayaquil and Félix in Madrid do some catching up. The Beginner Series is designed to prepare our students with the necessary tools to move on to more intermediate studies.
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Welcome to another lesson from the Costa Rican Regional Series. Today, Natalia and Carlos talk about really being hungry, about being so hungry that you could eat a… “pinto”! A what? Find out here! We’ll also learn about the different ways that gerunds are formed and how to recognize these words in context. Be sure to check out Newbie Lesson 10 to build on the comparisons made here, and for even further studies, check Iberian Lesson 10 and Peruvian Lesson 10, to get some regional flavor. Spod101 brings the Spanish-speaking world to you!
Dialogue - Standard | Play | Popup Dialogue - Costa Rican | Play | Popup Review | Play | Popup Learning CenterLearn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! Today, we have Part III of this phone conversation between Jimena in Ecuador and Félix in Spain. We get to look at the gerund at bit closer and see how it’s formed with verbs of the second and third conjugations, as well as how it can be used with verbs other than “estar”, distinguishing this usage from that of the “Present Progressive” in English. Don’t forget to check out the Line by Line audio transcripts in the Learning Center. With the Beginner Series of Spod101 you will set the foundation necessary for advancement into the soon-to-come Intermediate Series.
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Category: Regional Spanish Series | 1 Comment »
Grammar: gerund | Function: expressing continuous action | Topic: romance | Politeness Level: informal
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