Forum: Grammar
September 22, 2025, 09:16 PM
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
September 22, 2025, 08:57 PM
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Replies: 2
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Forum: Grammar
September 22, 2025, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 6
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Thank you, poli!
A quick comment, Nfqufktc....
Thank you, poli!
A quick comment, Nfqufktc. I realized that when you said "hubieran inventado" (subjunctive) you probably meant "hubieron inventado" (indicative). This is the pretérito anterior...
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
September 22, 2025, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 2
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Sobre llovido, mojado
The meaning of this phrase is asked in the online episode of Preguntas fáciles that was recently offered as a sample here. Both the host and contestant got it pretty wrong. It was defined as meaning...
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Forum: Grammar
September 21, 2025, 03:27 PM
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Replies: 6
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Forum: Teaching and Learning Techniques
September 21, 2025, 02:26 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 241
I'll be glad to help.
I didn't know about...
I'll be glad to help.
I didn't know about this person and this program, but I followed the link and found it to be very entertaining. Family oriented, pero con onda, ¿viste?
Mid-class language...
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Forum: Grammar
September 17, 2025, 06:47 AM
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Replies: 5
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You can read it or search within it here...
You can read it or search within it here (https://www.rae.es/gram%C3%A1tica/) for free.
Two warnings:
Its content is almost out of reach for a last-year high-school student who is a native...
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Forum: Grammar
September 16, 2025, 03:20 PM
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Replies: 5
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The right side is easy
No creo que fuera...
The right side is easy
No creo que fuera culpable, pero ya no importa porque lo ejecutaron.
Nadie creía que era culpable, pero igual lo ejecutaron. (in their minds, indicative)
<por esos...
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Forum: Grammar
September 16, 2025, 02:53 PM
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Replies: 5
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Take those grammar manuals and burn them. They...
Take those grammar manuals and burn them. They seem written by the typical political refugees who fled Spain during Franco's regime and were welcome in Eastern Europe, in the time they believed a...
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Forum: Grammar
September 14, 2025, 10:24 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 198
I will never understand all of that about...
I will never understand all of that about emotions or whatever """"triggering"""" subjunctive. Spanish simply doesn't work that way. At all.
The same way that English doesn't say
I want you go...
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Forum: Grammar
September 14, 2025, 05:02 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 198
1 - The sentence should be either
Esas...
1 - The sentence should be either
Esas secretarias se quejaban de aquellos jefes que no les permitían pasar más tiempo con sus familias.
or
Esas secretarias se quejaban de que los jefes que...
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Forum: Grammar
September 11, 2025, 09:32 PM
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Replies: 4
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EsLet's go chunk by chunk. A few things now as...
EsLet's go chunk by chunk. A few things now as it's nearly midnight here.
About #3, you're right, though common sense makes me think the plain was still on the tarmac. One hard fact happens first...
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Forum: Grammar
September 10, 2025, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 2
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Forum: Grammar
September 09, 2025, 01:48 PM
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Replies: 4
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You have legitimate reasons to feel a bit...
You have legitimate reasons to feel a bit stumped. All but the first sentence are odd and ambiguous to say the least.
Marta y Luisa se fueron antes de que la reunión terminará (the original order...
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Forum: Vocabulary
September 05, 2025, 09:22 PM
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Replies: 4
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al revés (remera/polo/playera/camiseta)
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al revés (remera/polo/playera/camiseta)
patas para arriba = cabeza abajo (cuadro/pintura, afiche/póster, mapa, plano)
dado vuelta (bolsa, prenda de vestir, todo lo anterior)
invertido =...
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Forum: Vocabulary
September 03, 2025, 05:01 PM
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Replies: 2
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Ring raje
I was reading about the tragedy in the state located north of the Gulf of Mexico and then learned the term ding dong ditch.
In Argentina and Uruguay is called ring raje or rinrraje, from slang...
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Forum: Vocabulary
September 03, 2025, 04:36 PM
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Replies: 4
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Forum: Vocabulary
September 03, 2025, 02:19 PM
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Replies: 3
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This goes beyond Mexican Spanish. I would be...
This goes beyond Mexican Spanish. I would be surprised to learn about a Spanish speaking country were estante weren't a single shelf and estantería weren't a shelving unit or a rack with many...
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Forum: Grammar
September 02, 2025, 08:31 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 243
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
August 31, 2025, 09:19 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 407
Not in this nation ...:D
Anyone trying to...
Not in this nation ...:D
Anyone trying to celebraste that will be captured by local ICE and sent to Pampean Guantánamo, or deported to El Salvador, South Sudan or any country with a really bad...
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Forum: Grammar
August 31, 2025, 12:23 PM
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Replies: 5
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I forgot the preterit/imperfect part.
It...
I forgot the preterit/imperfect part.
It would strictly be an ongoing action were the phrase "sus padres no estuvieran viniendo" ("their parents weren't coming" is the best match for that)
Yet...
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
August 31, 2025, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 407
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Forum: Grammar
August 31, 2025, 10:27 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 243
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
August 31, 2025, 12:39 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 407
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Forum: Idioms & Sayings
August 29, 2025, 04:05 PM
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