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Esta lectura generaliza en exceso sobre los pueblos indígenas de Latinoamérica y sus creencias.  Vale la pena mencionar que el Día de Pachamama es celebrado en solo ciertas partes de América del Sur, no en todo Latinoamérica, y sólo por ciertos grupos indígenas, no todos.  Como menciona esta lectura, Pachamama es una diosa inca y de por sí su fiesta se celebra en los países donde viven las comunidades indígenas de ascendencia inca, es decir,  Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador y  Perú.  Hay otras comunidades indígenas no-incas que viven en los países arriba mencionados que no veneran a Pachamama y más allá de eso, hay otros países latinoamericanos en América del Sur, Centroamérica y América del Norte donde desconocen la tradición de Pachamama. 

Una frase incial más apropiada para esta lectura sería, "El Día de Pachamama fue celebrado hace escasos días en *algunos* pueblos indígenas de *Sudamérica*".  

Una pared de mi habitacion es rosa.   I thought that walls and rosas had to agree in number?  Adjective agrees with the noun in number??  I am new at this, so sorry if it sounds very elementary.

Thank you.

I got ripped by several Spanish speakers for saying that "45 es una titere" is incorrect grammar.  Because I am not fluent I could not argue the point.  Am I correct or are they?

Hola Inma, 

creo que hay un pequeño error aquí. Falta un tilde, ¿no? 

Un saludo cordial

Ελισάβετ

Hi Kwiziq Team, 

Please may I ask the following questions:

1) 'Soy profesora de español' - I am a Spanish teacher. 

**Why is the answer not 'Soy una profesora de español'  - why is there no need for the 'una' / 'a' in this sentence?

2) 'Está en el centro de la ciudad' - It is in the centre of the city.

**Why would the correct sentence not be  'Está en el centra de la ciudad' - would 'centro' not need to change to 'centra' to work with 'la ciudad' which is feminine?

Or is 'centro' simply a location, not an adjective in this example so doesn't have to change gender?

Apologies if my questions are confusing! Thanks very much for your help! Great website!

Natasha

Is there any guidance at all as to which of the accepted placement options is preferred in a given situation? Is the choice totally down to the speaker? Which option is/are most commonly used?

I'm just curious about the English translation. To be grammatically correct in English, I supposed you'd have to say, "the students with whom I partied." But no one talks that way, and it sounds very stuffy and formal. So I take it, you have decided not to follow English grammar to the letter, but rather the way people actually talk. I think that's a good decision. I take it you are descriptive rather than prescriptive grammarians? 

Hi - 

Wondering if you could explain when to use le instead of la or lo? I usually think of le as “to him” or “to her” like an indirect object. But I am not sure. Thank you!

Hello, in this example linked to the lesson : So my question is when is it antes de and when is it antes que ? Is antes de only for temporal subjects (antes de la cena...) ? And is there also después que ? Thank you.

No es justo que vosotros antes que nosotros. (It's not fair that you'll die before us.) HINT: Conjugate "morir" in El Presente de Subjuntivo.