Spanish language Q&A Forum

I'd love to watch the narrator on this exercise. The lip movements when speaking Spanish area treat to watch . . .

¿Qué tal números mas grandes como 37th, l00th, 461st, 1000th, etc.?

I do not understand why this is tercer not tercero as the correct answer as there is not a masculine singular preceding i

You have lessons covering the usage of each tense when preceded by pedir, but I don't see anything about how to distinguish when one is more appropriate than the other. The tense of "pedir" doesn't seem to factor in. There are examples of pedir followed by either tense in each lesson. 

La vendimia comienza en el antiguo Egipto. Por qué no el pretérito comenzó?

No ________ todo el tiempo a nuestro hijo; necesita espacio.

We can't be watching our son all the time; he needs some space.

(HINT: use modal verb "poder" and the verb "vigilar" for to watch)

podemos estar vigilando

podemos estar vigilandolo

Can we get a lesson on when to use which word? They seem to all be very similar in describing how long something takes.

Could you share the link where you list all the possible/different names of the verb tenses?

Gerunds are nouns formed from verbs.  The "ing" words you are translating here are called present participles.  Gerunds & present participles have the same form in English, but they are different in Spanish.  Eg. I like dancing=me gusta bailar. I am dancing= Estoy bailando. 

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I have gotten confused by a specific use of the personal a.  As I understand it, if you are mentioning a person or group of people, you need a personal a infront of the person.  For example if I am talking about a reporter mentioning Juan, I might say El reportero mencionó a Juan.  It also looks like if I want to say that the reporter mentioned Juan to Ana, I should say  El reportero mencionó Juan a Ana.  

Is this correct?  Is this also a general pattern - i.e. when I would normally use a personal a, but there is an indirect object (Ana), should I always drop the personal a and use the a for the indirect object?

Thanks