Listening

[CrOtALiTo]

Yes the link doesn't works.

Please check out it again your link or what is it name.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Link has been fixed and video embedded. There was a double "http".

[irmamar]

Thanks, Angelica. I didn't notice.

[JPablo]

I had a hard time with the Scotish accent... the rest are pretty recognizable... and rather 'genuine'. I can attest that the Italian, the Russian, German, Czech are "embroidered"...

(I mean she does these... and all really well...) (¡Los hace bordados!).

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As I was researching something else I came across this video, where you can hear some English and the way she pronounces the Spanish words... "El Libertador" (much like a Catalonian person would do...)

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/...-95949349.html

[irmamar]

An interesting link (I've understood almost everything she said ). But I don't agree with you about the Catalonian accent in the word "libertador", I wouldn't say that.

[JPablo]

Yes, I guess I wouldn't say it like that either, but I guess I subliminally said to create "controversy"... but I just thought about it on the way she pronounces the "l" a little bit...

(The link was interesting to me, as I am wrapping up "El general en su laberinto" by Márquez... and I had read "The Four Seasons of Manuela" and "Liberator of a Continent"... All of these books on Bolívar...) (I am curious now about reading all the letters compiled by O'leary...) (But that's another thread!!)

To keep on "listening" I think Noam Chomsky is actually very easy to follow as he pronounces very clearly... I think... What's your view (or your hearing!)

[irmamar]

Sorry, I forgot that your Catalonian is eastern, while mine is western. The way of pronouncing "l" is quite different. Here it is pronounced as in Spain.

[JPablo]

Hombre, digo, mujer, es que en "España" me dirías: "Que no te enteras, Contreras" y en BarsalOna, me dirías: "Que no te enterAs, LlOngueras..." (como el que tiene un huevo en la bOca, escOlti...)

Por cierto, ¿has escuchado a Chomsky? ¿Te resulta fácil de seguir?

(Creo que su dicción es bastante clara...)

[ChilenoAlemanCanada]

Originally Posted by irmamar

(an hour about news from Asia can put anybody to sleep )

To be able is an infinitive. It is used in situations such as:

"I want to be able to play guitar well."

I understand it's very similar in Spanish.

"Quiero poder tocar la guitarra bien."

I hope you don't mind the correction.

[CrOtALiTo]

I'm looking forward with your English.

What is exactly you want to mean with you don't mind?